Dorothy Walker

"This is family business. You're not part of any family."



Dorothy Walker is a minor but important antagonist in the first season of the hit Marvel Netflix show Jessica Jones and minor character in its second season. She was the abusive mother of Trish Walker and adoptive mother of Jessica Jones.

She was portrayed by Rebecca De Mornay.

History
Originally being a broke woman her daughter Trish's natural talent made her family much more wealthy and caused Dorothy to be very weary and critical thinking of her often abusing and harassing her for not being good enough. After the death of her family in a car crash the Walker's adopt Jessica in order to be viewed better in the public eye.

Jessica immediately sees the abuse inflicted on Trish and the two make a deal not to spread each other's secrets i.e Jessica's powers and Trish's abusive home life. At a later time however a disgusted Jessica demands that Dorothy leave Trish alone, Dorothy then cruelly mocks Jessica for having no family causing the latter to be infuriated and threw Dorothy clean off of her feet much to the latter's horror and Trish's admiration. After her daughter came of age she and Jessica split off from Dorothy and the latter didn't speak to the two ever again for many years.

Trish struck a deal with her mother after these many years in order to get onto a film set of a director she once worked with in the hopes to blackmail him for an investigation. Upon hearing about this Jessica immediately confronted Dorothy demanding that she tell her where Trish was, although being stubborn at first she did finally wind up telling Jessica what she did much to the latter's disgust.