• Lyra Belacqua (/ˈlaɪrə bəˈlɑːkwə/ LY-rə bə-LAH-kwə), later known as Lyra Silvertongue, is the heroine of Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. In...
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  • Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes...
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  • Pullman trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust. Lyra Belacqua, later known as Lyra Silvertongue, is the central character of His Dark Materials...
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    film Logan (2017), which won her several accolades. She starred as Lyra Belacqua in the television series His Dark Materials (2019–2022) and Jecki Lon...
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  • Lyra's Oxford is set when Lyra Belacqua is 15, two years after the end of the trilogy. The book consists mainly of an illustrated short story, "Lyra and...
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  • Northern Lights: the former lover of Lord Asriel and biological mother of Lyra Belacqua. Mrs. Coulter is 35 years old in the third novel, The Amber Spyglass...
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  • Golden Compass in the United States. It stars Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra Belacqua, Nicole Kidman as Marisa Coulter, and Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel, alongside...
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    debut at the age of 13 was in The Golden Compass, as the lead character Lyra Belacqua. Other lead roles include the wayward teenager April in Dustbin Baby...
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  • Scholastic UK. Set in a parallel universe, it follows the journey of Lyra Belacqua to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her...
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  • trilogy His Dark Materials. The books further chronicle the adventures of Lyra Belacqua and her battle against the theocratic organisation known as the Magisterium...
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  • of Lyra, his life changed. Mrs Coulter's husband, Edward Coulter, attacked Lyra and her foster mother intending to harm and possibly murder Lyra. Lord...
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    dust shalt thou return." — Genesis 3:19 Dust was previously known (in Lyra Belacqua's universe) as "Rusakov particles" named after their discoverer, Boris...
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  • protagonists in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials, along with Lyra Belacqua. He first appears in the series at the start of the second novel, The...
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  • figures connected to his long-lost father. Dafne Keen as Lyra Belacqua (later known as Lyra Silvertongue), a girl who was raised at Jordan College Ruth...
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    and musician, Laura Brophy Lyra Belacqua, one of the two protagonists in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy Lyra, a character in Mary Renault's...
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    Female Comedy Performance. Martin's theatre work includes the role of Lyra Belacqua in the production of His Dark Materials (2003–2004) at the National...
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  • Materials. It presents events prior to the arrival of the six-month-old Lyra Belacqua at Jordan College, Oxford. The setting is a world dominated by the Magisterium...
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  • (born 1945), Finnish retired diplomat Lyra (singer), Irish singer-songwriter and musician, Laura Brophy Lyra Belacqua, one of the two protagonists in Philip...
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  • Dark Materials trilogy. The novel continues the adventures of Lyra Belacqua (now known as Lyra Silvertongue) recounted in the first novel, Northern Lights...
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  • Daisy in the 2003 film Love Actually. On radio she played the part of Lyra Belacqua in BBC Radio 4's 2003 dramatisation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials...
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  • song, with the request that it make reference to the lead character, Lyra Belacqua. According to Del Palmer, Bush was asked to do the song at very short...
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  • books – a story of the coming of age of two children, Will Parry and Lyra Belacqua, and their adventures as they wander through a series of parallel universes...
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  • novelist Philip Pullman. Keen starred as the series' lead character Lyra Belacqua / Lyra Silvertongue and received praise for her performance. Of the film...
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    Pullman, who has given fantasy literature a memorable heroine like Lyra Belacqua, has also often pointed out how Tolkien's famous book had failed to...
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    minor role as Mrs Lonsdale, the housemaid in The Golden Compass to Lyra Belacqua. In 2007, Szubanski ventured into musical comedy, taking on the role...
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    Compass soundtrack which made reference to the lead character, Lyra Belacqua. The song, "Lyra", was played over the closing credits of the film. The single...
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  • "wounded child" to "divine child") Damien from The Omen Lyra Belacqua from His Dark Materials (Lyra also evolves throughout the story, as she undergoes a...
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    physiognomy." In Philip Pullman's novel The Secret Commonwealth, the heroine Lyra Belacqua carries a truncheon made from lignum vitae as a weapon. In Final Fantasy...
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  • parallel to our own and is the home of the trilogy's young heroine, Lyra Belacqua. The location and layout of Jordan College is analogous to the location...
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  • the third episode of the second season of His Dark Materials, when Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry escape into a cinema to watch it. The visual effects...
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