Knives Out
WARNING : This article contains spoiler for knife Out ( 2019 ) .
Summary
knife Outfollows the Thrombey family , and all the member are suspicious after the head of the family , Harlan Thrombey , dies . The Thrombey family gathers to look Harlan ’s eighty-fifth birthday party , but thing get sorry when the wealthy patriarch is ground dead and the Detective in charge , Benoit Blanc , suspects foul play . In the film , almost all the members of the Thrombey are suspicious and seem to be hiding something , and their connector is critical to the account , as they endeavor to backstab each other , lie , and even commit criminal offense to hear to get the content of his will .
Knives Outpremiered in 2019 , and it follow an all - star ensemble cast in a definitive whodunit . Star war : The Last Jedidirector Rian Johnson wrote and directed the movie , and it received both critical and commercial acclaim . This allow the filmmaker to tell other whodunit narrative , starting withGlass Onion . The master cast of characters of the first film , the Thrombeys , was not part ofGlass Onion ’s mold of persona . However , the razor - shrill Detective Benoit Blanc ( Daniel Craig ) returned for a new secret with a unexampled corps de ballet . knife Outwas all about kinsperson , and understanding how they are related is crucial for forecast out their moral force . It also make it easier to understandKnives Out ’s close .
Harlan Thrombey
Head of the Family
Linda Drysdale
Harlan ’s eldest girl
Richard Drysdale
Linda ’s Husband
Ransom Drysdale
Linda and Richard ’s son
Joni Thrombey
Harlan ’s daughter - in - police
Meg Thrombey
Joni ’s girl
Walt Thrombey
Harlan ’s son
Donna Thrombey
Walt ’s Wife
Jacob Thrombey
Walt and Donna ’s Word
Wanetta " Great Nana " Thrombey
Harlan ’s mother
Christopher Plummer aim over the purpose of the kinsperson ’s paterfamilias , Harlan Thrombey , in Rian Johnson’sKnives Out . Harlan is a best - selling mystery author , who has made quite a fortune over the years and is genial and supportive . However , follow his death , it turns out he was n’t as generous to his sept as they had imagined . With a flair for the dramatic , Harlan decides to leave everything to his kind nurse , Marta Cabrera ( Ana de Armas ) , publish the Thrombeys out of his will , go for they will win without relying on his money . He has three nestling ( one deceased ) , and a at rest married woman .
Harlan’s Eldest Daughter
Harlan ’s eldest child is Linda , his only daughter , toy by Jamie Lee Curtis . She has a real estate business she lead off with a loanword from her Fatherhood , and seems to be faithful to him liken to her other siblings . Linda is ruthless and the type of someone who would brag about being self - made , purposefully forgetting about her Church Father ’s assistance . She has a husband , Richard , with whom she turn tail her troupe , and find out out he is cheating on her thanks toHarlan ’s unseeable ink letter of the alphabet . The two share a Logos , Ransom .
Richard , act by Don Johnson , is Harlan ’s Word - in - law , as he ’s married to Linda , and also father to Ransom . He help Linda with her company , although he has no say in ownership because of their prenup . During Harlan ’s 85th birthday party , the paterfamilias confronts Richard about his infidelity and gives him an ultimatum to order Linda . Richard is a buttoned-down , play off to illegal in-migration , and very entitled . He also seems to have a poor peevishness , as he yells at his mob a peck , and also tries to corrupt the police at the end of the flick to help his son .
While it ’s widely known that Glass Onion is named after a Beatles birdsong , Knives Out is named after a birdsong too , but it ’s much less obvious .
Hugh “Ransom” Drysdale
Linda’s Son
Chris Evans plays Hugh " Ransom " Drysdale , the main opposer ofKnives Outwith a liking for jumper . He is Linda and Richard ’s only boy , and he grew up to be the black sheep in the Thrombey family . Ransom is flakey , self-important , selfish , and mishandle , and he does n’t essay to obliterate his fault from anyone . He can also be quite magic and persuasive when he wants to . Ransom decides to vote out Harlan after he find out Harlan plans to write everyone out of his will . He almost sire away with murder , but it turn out he is n’t that resourceful , and he is caught in the end .
Harlan’s deceased son Neil’s widow
Joni Thrombey , play by Toni Collette , is Harlan ’s girl - in - legal philosophy . She was married to Harlan ’s deceased Word , Neil , who become flat before the case inKnives Out , with whom she shares Meg . Although she is not relate to Harlan by roue , she feel entitle to his money and expects him to pay off for her girl ’s sketch . She is an influencer with a panache for theatrics , and she is also the only other somebody , by from Ransom , to have committed a crime during the movie , as she embezzled thousands of buck from Harlan , and impersonate as her girl ’s tutelage money
Megan “Meg” Thrombey
Neil and Joni’s daughter
Katherine Langford dally Megan " Meg " Thrombey , Joni and Neil ’s daughter and Harlan ’s granddaughter . She initially seems to be the only good Thrombey , as she seems genial , progressive , and worry about others . However , when get-up-and-go comes to jostle , Meg prove she is truly a Thrombey . She reveals Marta ’s female parent does n’t have document and gives her family ammunition to blackmail Marta when she risks losing Harlan ’s tuition money , making her as virtuously grizzly as everyone else in the family .
Walter “Walt” Thrombey
Harlan’s Son
Walter " Walt " Thrombey , play by Michael Shannon , is Harlan ’s vernal Word and the least mature of them all . He is also the only one working with him , as he is the CEO of Harlan ’s publication company . Walt is grabby and constantly tries to get more money . He pushes Harlan to agree to permit Netflix adapt his novel to get more riches , forcing his father to fire him from the chore because of it . He is marital to Donna , and they have one fry , Jacob .
Rian Johnson ’s Knives Out yield tribute to murder mystery classics by let in Easter eggs that advert to various secret film and detective stories .
The other someone who married into the Thrombey family next to Richard is Donna , Harlan ’s daughter - in - law and Walt ’s wife , played by Riki Lindhome . Donna is not a major character in the movie , and , while she does n’t seem to be as abominable and gentle as the rest of the Thrombeys , she clearly enjoy the comfort the family ’s riches brings , and is as alt - right as her husband . She is also Jacob ’s mother , although she does n’t seem very cognisant of her boy ’s political view and on-line natural action .
Walt’s Son
Jacob Thrombey is Harlan ’s grandson , Walt and Donna ’s boy , played by Jaeden Martell . He is an alt - correct trolling and even Richard thinks he is a Nazi . He does n’t pose that many issues in the moving-picture show , but he is always on his telephone set , trolling strangers on the internet . Even during his grandfather ’s birthday political party , he pass most of the metre in the bathroom , with his activeness being exposed by Benoit Blanc later in the movie . He and his cousin , Meg , do n’t get along due to their political views .
K Callan
maybe the only innocuous person in the Thrombey home is Wanetta " Great Nana " Thrombey , played by K Callan . Given that Harlan is generally a good somebody , she seems to have raised it well , althoughKnives Outdoesn’t reveal much about her younger years . She is the quondam member of the Thrombey menage and treats Marta and Detective Benoit with kindness and regard . Since she ’s mostly the unruffled beholder , the family does n’t seem to pay her much attention .
