Desdemona

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Desdemona
Othello character
Desdémone by Alexandre Cabanel
Created by	William Shakespeare
Portrayed by	Margaret Hughes Sarah Siddons Anna Mowatt Helen Faucit Ellen Terry Peggy Ashcroft Uta Hagen Elisabeth Sladen Maggie Smith Manju Warrier Kareena Kapoor Jenny Agutter Julia Stiles
In-universe information
Affiliation	Emilia, attendant and confidante
Family	Othello, husband Brabantio, father

Desdemona (/ˌdɛzdəˈmoʊnə/) is a character in William Shakespeare's play Othello (c. 1601–1604). Shakespeare's Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a Moorish Venetian military prodigy. When her husband is deployed to Cyprus in the service of the Republic of Venice, Desdemona accompanies him. There, her husband is manipulated by his ensign Iago into believing she is an adulteress, and, in the last act, she is murdered by her estranged spouse.