Gwen Carver is the main antagonist of the 2024 action-comedy film Role Play. She is the head of a group of elite assassins known as Sovereign and is also the adopted mother of the main protagonist Emma Brackett whom she trained and raised as an operative for the organization.
She was portrayed by Connie Nielsen.
Biography[]
At some point Gwen Carver comes into contact with an unnamed man who runs a security firm known as Sovereign eventually becoming the new head of the organization after his death. Gwen Carver also becomes the adopted mother of the man's young daughter Emma whom she grew attached to and begins training her in the ways of murder.
Fast forward several years, Emma is a now a happily married wife to Dave Brackett having met him during an assignment and fallen in love. She married him and had two children while continuing to keep her job as an assassin a secret from her family until one day after realizing that she'd forgotten an important anniversary during one of her assignments, decides to take a break from her job to be a proper wife and mother.
This in turn, incurs the Gwen's wrath as she jealously seeks bring Emma back into the fold having first placed a hit on her expecting it to make her come home. When instead, Emma decides to flee to Berlin, Gwen along with another assassin she had trained Ji dress up as FBI agents and go to visit Dave with the intention of revealing Emma's true occupation to him hoping that it would destroy their relationship. While in Dave's house, Gwen notices a photo of Emma and Dave's children on the fridge and immediately falls in love with them even asking Dave if she could "borrow" the photo as a possible clue which the oblivious husband agrees to.