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Maisie Lockwood is a fictional character in the Jurassic Park franchise. She is introduced in the fifth film, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), which is also the second installment in the Jurassic World trilogy. J. A. Bayona directed the film, casting Isabella Sermon (in her feature debut) as Maisie. She is one of the three main protagonists in the Jurassic World trilogy, along with her adoptive parents, Owen Grady (portrayed by Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (portrayed by Bryce Dallas Howard). She used to live with her late grandfather Sir Benjamin Lockwood, an old business partner of Dr. John Hammond. She is the biogenetic daughter of geneticist Charlotte Lockwood. In Fallen Kingdom, she is portrayed initially as the granddaughter of Benjamin Lockwood, though it is revealed later in the film that he actually cloned her from his deceased daughter. Co-writer Colin Trevorrow introduced human cloning to the film series to explore the full effects of genetic power. The film marked Sermon's film debut, and she reprised the role in the sequel, Jurassic World Dominion (2022). In the film, she forms a close bond with Beta, the asexual offspring of Owen's Velociraptor Blue. Later, she and Beta are kidnapped by Biosyn for research purposes, prompting Owen and Claire to embark on a rescue mission. While at Biosyn, Maisie learns she is not only cloned from Charlotte but that the latter also gave birth to her asexually, making them daughter and mother. Trevorrow, who co-wrote and directed Dominion, said that Maisie's role as Charlotte's daughter had always been planned. Maisie is the subject of Maisie Lockwood Adventures, a book series by author Tess Sharpe that takes place between the two films. Maisie has received a mixed to positive reception from critics. While her clone backstory, evolving origin, and overall character received mixed reactions, Sermon's performance has been well-received, and some consider Maisie to be one of the best Jurassic Park characters. Fictional background Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom The around nine-year-old Maisie Lockwood is initially portrayed as the granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Lockwood, adopted by him after her mother Charlotte died in a car accident. Maisie lives at Lockwood Estate and is cared for by family housekeeper Iris. She has a passion for dinosaurs and likes to imitate them as a play activity. Maisie expresses curiosity about her mother, though Benjamin does not allow her to see photographs of her. Later, Maisie is fascinated by a video of Owen Grady training his Velociraptors, including Blue. She then discovers Eli Mills's plan to auction Isla Nublar's dinosaurs and is distraught when she discovers her grandfather's dead body, after Mills suffocated him. She grabs his photo album and discovers that his daughter was identical to her in appearance during childhood. With Benjamin dead, Mills becomes Maisie's guardian and dismisses Iris. When Owen and Claire arrive, Maisie recognizes Owen from the video and Claire from a meeting she had with Benjamin. Owen and Claire form a bond with Maisie and comfort her following her grandfather's death, during which Maisie sees Owen as a surrogate father based on actions. As her guardian, Mills confronts Owen and Claire, and demands that Maisie stay with him when he suspects that they want to take care of her. He informs them that Maisie is actually a clone of Benjamin's deceased daughter. She is then pursued throughout Benjamin's mansion by the Indoraptor after it escapes. Owen and Claire work to protect Maisie from the Indoraptor and manage to kill it with assistance from Blue. When the unsold captive dinosaurs are threatened by a hydrogen cyanide leak, Maisie releases them into the wild. Being a clone, she sympathizes with the dinosaurs and believes they should be free. Owen and Claire go on to adopt Maisie, who is accepted as a real person despite knowing of her origins. Jurassic World Dominion Four years has passed since the incident at the estate, and rumors have circulated about Maisie's existence as a clone. In the Sierra Nevada, Maisie has lived in seclusion with Owen and Claire, who worry that she will be kidnapped for research purposes if she leaves home. Maisie, now 14 years old, has become rebellious over living in isolation and takes secret bicycle trips to town to explore society without her parents' knowledge, often concealing her face with her hoodie and not staying in one place too long to avoid discovery. She is also having an existential crisis over being a clone and is curious to learn more about Charlotte. When Blue shows up at the family's cabin with a hatchling, Maisie names it Beta and forms a bond with it. Later, they are both captured by mercenaries hired by Biosyn Genetics' CEO Dr. Lewis Dodgson and brought to the company's headquarters in Italy. At Biosyn, Maisie meets Dr. Henry Wu, who shows her videos of Charlotte. She once lived with the scientists on Isla Sorna, and later became a geneticist and colleague of Wu's. He explains that the story of Charlotte dying in a car accident and Benjamin cloning her was just a cover-up formulated by Benjamin. In addition to being Charlotte's clone, Wu reveals to Maisie that she was also birthed by Charlotte, making them daughter and mother; Maisie was born asexually after Charlotte manipulated her ovum, wanting a child of her own without the need of a partner. It is revealed that Charlotte actually died of a genetic disease while Maisie was young, but she was able to prevent the illness in the latter by altering her genome. Wu has been trying, unsuccessfully, to replicate Charlotte's research, because of having little of the files of her research while the rest is lost to time after her death. He wants to study Maisie's altered DNA and comparing it with Beta's unaltered DNA to process tracing Charlotte's work, hoping to find a solution to Biosyn's giant locusts from it, which threaten the world food supply. Maisie escapes containment and meets Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler, who are at Biosyn investigating the locust incidents. Ellie reveals that she knew Charlotte; they met when Charlotte came to Ellie's university as a guest lecturer, during which Ellie had met Maisie years before as a baby. Charlotte is said to have cared deeply for Maisie. After reuniting with her parents, Maisie helps Owen and Alan to retrieve Beta from within the Biosyn facility. Maisie also convinces the others to take Dr. Wu along, as she agrees to let him study her and Beta in order to resolve the locust crisis. Having closure by the truth of her past, Maisie happily returns to life with Owen and Claire, and Beta is returned to Blue. Production background Fallen Kingdom and Dominion were co-written by Colin Trevorrow, who also directed the latter. He included the concept of human cloning in an effort to explore the full effects that genetic power could have in the Jurassic Park film universe. He said that "we're so much closer to clo.... Discover the Tess Sharpe popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Tess Sharpe books.