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Lydia Clements, often referred to by her rank as Aunt Lydia, is a character in the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood's book The Handmaid's Tale. Along with the other Aunts, she is a teacher of the Rachel and Leah Center. Aunt Lydia is portrayed by actress Ann Dowd. Aunt Lydia is a plain-looking...
In 2017, Dowd began starring as Aunt Lydia Clements on the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2021, she was cast as Edna Garrett for the third installment of Live in Front of a Studio Audience on ABC , featuring both Diff'rent Strokes and the spin-off The Facts of Life .
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Aunt Lydia. Aunt Lydia appears in flashbacks where her instructions frequently haunt Offred. Aunt Lydia works at the 'Red Center' where women receive instructions for a life as a Handmaid. Throughout the narrative, Aunt Lydia's pithy pronouncements on code of conduct for the Handmaids shed light on the philosophy of subjugation of women ...
- Margaret Atwood
- Canada
- 1985
- Tad Aronowicz, design; Gail Geltner, collage (first edition, hardback)
Age. 53 (Takeover) Early 70s (The Testaments) Class. Aunt. Allegiance. Gilead (ruse) Mayday. Occupation. Family court judge (prior to Gilead) Teacher (prior to Gilead) Rape crisis center volunteer (prior to Gilead) Aunt Lydia is a character in both The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments novels.
Ann Dowd as Aunt Lydia Clements, a woman in charge of overseeing the Handmaids in their sexual re-education and duties. She is brutal and subjects insubordinate Handmaids to sadistic physical punishment, but she also cares for her charges and believes deeply in the Gileadean mission and doctrine.
May 19, 2021 · When it comes to Gilead's villains, Aunt Lydia is among the worst of the worst. Played by Ann Dowd on "The Handmaid's Tale," Lydia has enraged and disturbed fans since the show kicked off in 2017.
Nov 26, 2021 · Dowd, now 65, has lately found something of a niche in mainstream psycho-horror, as the fearsome Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid’s Tale, the malevolent Patti on The Leftovers and the downright...
