Hanna

Hanna is a fictional character created by screenwriters Seth Lochhead and David Farr. She appears in both the 2011 live action film Hanna and the 2019 TV series of the same name. She is portrayed by Saoirse Ronan in the film and Esmé Creed-Miles in the television series. Early life In the film Hanna's year and place of birth are not revealed but in the TV series she is shown in 2003 as a very small baby in a secret facility in Darabani, Romania. In both the film and at the start of the series she is 15 years old except in brief flashbacks to her earlier life. Her birth mother was Johanna (Zadek in the film, Petrescu, born 1980 in the series) who died whilst she was rescuing Hanna from the facility with her partner, German former CIA agent Erik Heller. Erik escapes with Hanna and her childhood and early adolescence is spent living alone with him in the forest (Finland in the film, Poland in the series) to hide from the CIA. For the first 15 years of her life Hanna believes Erik to be her birth father, but she later learns he is not. It is revealed that Erik persuaded Johanna not to abort Hanna so the baby could be part of a CIA programme called UTRAX. In the television series it is revealed that Hanna's real father is named Emil Prodna and at the time Emil did not want to have a relationship with Johanna and have Hanna as his daughter. However when Erik takes her at the age of 15 to meet Emil, his current wife, and his other three children, Emil is happy to meet Hanna and offers her a place to stay in safety. Hanna however gives this up for Erik.