Name: Armand
Date of Birth: Unknown, circa 1400s
Place of Birth: Kiev, Russia
Date Brought into Darkness: circa 1400s at the age of 17
Place Brought into Darkness: Venice, Italy
Maker: Marius
Chronicled Appearances: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, Memnoch the Devil, The Vampire Armand
Fledglings: Daniel Malloy
Description: Armand is first introduced when Louis encounters him in the streets of Paris. Armand has large brown eyes and the face of an angel. His manner is calm and unhurried, hypnotic to Louis in its centeredness and sense of agelessness. He is facil and detached, with a body at his command and eyes that seem to see and uphold only his own thoughts. Louis understands that Armand attempts to present the maximum truth, while simultaneously being deceptive. As a leader of the coven that operates the Theatre of the Vampires, he is an actor, appearing both innocent and cruel, simple and complex.*
Antonio Banderas played Armand in the 1992 film Interview with the Vampire.
The graphic novels for the Vampire Chronicles portrayed Armand quite differently and visually closer to the way he was described in the texts.
*Ramsland, Katherine. The Vampire Companion: The Official Guide to Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles. Ballantine: New York. 1995. Page 21.
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