Silhouette

Short Biography

The Silhouette (real name Ursula Zandt) - A gun-toting vigilante and member of the Minutemen. Before Watchmen gives a new backstory, that Ursula was motivated by the deaths of her parents and sister at the hands of the Nazis in their native Austria. According to the first Nite Owl, Silhouette was the first member of the Minutemen who went public with her career as a super-hero, when she busted a child pornography ring in New York. She had a close working relationship with Nite Owl and after being forced out of the Minutemen (upon being publicly outed as a lesbian) she continued to work with Nite Owl, investigating a string of child murders until she and her lover were killed by a former super-villain she had fought years earlier. In the film, the words "lesbian wh*res" scrawled on the wall at the scene of her murder imply her killer was motivated by homophobia and not necessarily revenge.She is portrayed by Apollonia Vanova in the film.