CHARACTER PROFILE: Mel Jones

 "I mean my OTHER other mother... Mom number one?"

-Coraline Jones

Description:

• Mel in Coraline's mother, though she is easily irritated by Coraline's restlessness she is a very important character to the story - she and Charlie are the very focus when the Beldam creates the other world for Coraline, creating a world where everything is parallel but "better," or so she would have Coraline believe...

Voice Actor:

• Teri Hatcher

Archetype:

• Mother/Matriarch - She plays the role of Coraline's mother, disciplining her and providing her with food, shelter and even the clothes on her back.

Teri Hatcher also does the voice of the other mother/Beldam, who is the antagonist of the story, trying to trick young Coraline into staying with her in her parallel world and sew buttons into her eyes so she can eat her...