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I knew they would come here if they thought that he was here. And there would be blood, and pain, and fear. And I knew that you wouldn't be able to resist it, and you would come back.
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~ Ingrid encountering Pennywise, mistakenly believing he is her father.
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But you know what they say about Derry, dear. No one who dies here ever really dies.
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~ Ingrid Kersh's most famous quote.
Ingrid Kersh(née Gray), also known as Periwinkle, is one of the three secondary antagonists (alongside Francis Shaw and Clint Bowers) of Season 1 of the HBO Max supernatural horror TV series IT: Welcome to Derry.
She is the daughter of Robert "Bob" Gray who performed as a clown in the circus during 1908, and by the 1960s she worked at the Juniper Hill Asylum.
Emma-Leigh Cullum portrayed Ingrid as a child in 1908.
As an elderly lady, as well as IT's later impression of this form, she was portrayed by the late Joan Gregson.
Personality[]
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Biography[]
Early Life[]
Ingrid Gray was born August 13, 1900. During 1908 she alongside her father performed as the clown duo Pennywise the Dancing Clown and Periwinkle. Some point during 1908, her father would be eaten and murdered by It, where the entity then took the form of her father and manipulated her into believing that it's really him.
1935[]
Sometime in 1935 she began working as a housekeeper at Juniper Hill Asylum. At one point, she overheard Mabel, a patient at the asylum, talking about a clown in the basement. Interested, Ingrid asked Mabel to take her down and show her. A red balloon appeared, and It - in the form of "Pennywise" - showed up. It then began to chase the two, and Ingrid accidentally dropped Mabel on the floor, and before Mabel could get up the door closed. It then devoured Mabel, but appeared to Ingrid in the form of Bob Gray, and asked her to open the door. Later, Ingrid would start to take children down to the basement (unbeknownst to the other staff) so "her father" can feed.
Before Welcome to Derry[]
Sometime before 1962 feeding cycle she met and married a man named Stanley "Stan" Kersh, taking his last name while still working at Juniper Hill.
Welcome to Derry[]
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It Chapter Two[]
By 2016, Ingrid is already dead but her elderly self appears as one of It's forms during the film. When Beverly comes into her abandoned house to search for clues on the history of Derry, she appears as a form that It takes, offering her some tea during her visit. While they are talking, she takes several long pauses in between lines and seems to zone out and stare at Beverly, much to her discomfort. Beverly also notices a red, rotten section of skin on her chest, which probably gave her the indication that she wasn't speaking with the real Ingrid. When Ingrid leaves the room to get more tea, she reveals that her father joined the circus when she was a young girl. Beverly looks into a picture on her wall and sees her father, Bob Gray, with an eerily similar appearance to Pennywise. In the background, Ingrid's corpse appears naked as she runs across the opening between the kitchen and living room. She then tells Beverly that she was always "Daddy's little girl", before It taunts Beverly over her father's previous abuse towards her as a child. Finally, with her corpse now fully deformed and ugly, It tries to attack and kill Beverly, but she fortunately gets away.
Powers & Abilities[]
Increased longevity: It is strongly suggested that Pennywise may have extended her natural lifespan after becoming, against her will, a pawn of It. Despite her youthful appearance in the series, she should actually be at least 70 years old.
Trivia[]
Before she made her reveal, many fans mistakenly thought that her hidden clown form stalking the protagonists was actually It in an early Pennywise form.
While not explicitly stated, it is strongly implied that Pennywise may have extended her natural lifespan after she became IT's unwitting pawn (much like what it offered the Losers in the original novel when It pled for its life), given her youthful appearance in 1962 despite the fact that she should be over 60 years old.
It is revealed that IT explicitly took on Ingrid's elderly appearance in It Chapter Two to torment Beverly because of her connection to the incident regarding her mother's suicide, where she would attempt to "comfort" an emotionally distraught Beverly over her mother's death with her infamous line.
