Sophie Hatter is a fictional character who is the heroine of Diana Wynne Jones' novel Howl's Moving Castle, published in 1986 and is also a character in the sequels, Castle in the Air (1990) and House of Many Ways (2008). She was portrayed in 2004 in an animated film adaptation of Howl's Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. She is voiced by Chieko Baisho in the Japanese version and Jean Simmons (old Sophie) and Emily Mortimer (young...
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Sophie Hatter is a fictional character who is the heroine of Diana Wynne Jones' novel Howl's Moving Castle, published in 1986 and is also a character in the sequels, Castle in the Air (1990) and House of Many Ways (2008). She was portrayed in 2004 in an animated film adaptation of Howl's Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. She is voiced by Chieko Baisho in the Japanese version and Jean Simmons (old Sophie) and Emily Mortimer (young Sophie) in the English version.
In Howl's Moving Castle, Sophie is the eldest of three daughters of Hat maker, Mr Hatter, in the magical kingdom of Ingary, where many fairy-tale tropes are accepted ways of life. When Sophie's father dies, her step-mother Fanny sets her to making the hats in the family hat shop. Sophie, being the eldest, is convinced that she'll always fail at everything she does, and accepts her doomed fate. However, Sophie turns out to be a brilliant hat maker as she has a rare magical ability of speaking life into things....
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