Mary Shaw

Mary Shaw is the main antagonist of the movie Dead Silence.

History
Mary Shaw worked as a performing ventriloquist in her mortal life. During one of her shows, she was interrupted by a boy (Michael Ashen, Jamie's great uncle) who kept saying her act was fake and that he could see her lips moving, something Shaw denied. Mary soon kidnapped and killed Michael, "making him" into one of her "dolls". Knowing she was responsible for Michael's disappearance, the Ashen family and their friends killed Shaw by cutting out her tongue.

Mary would come back to take her revenge, killing all the men who had helped kill her. She then did the same thing to their wives, their children, and then their children's children.

Sometime before the events of Dead Silence, Shaw tracked down Edward Ashen, Jaime's father, and took on the role of his new wife. She killed Edward, turning him into a life size ventriloquist dummy, and planned on mimicking his voice should Jaime return to his fathers home one day.

Dead Silence
When Billy, one of her dolls, was sent to the home of Jamie Ashen and his wife Lisa, Shaw took her opportunity to kill Lisa while Jamie went out, ripping her tongue out and leaving her body covered with a sheet in her bed.

Shaw acted as Jaime's stepmother while he returned to his childhood home. She always stood and sat at "her husbands" side while actually mimicking his voice and physical actions under the guise of him having suffered a stroke years before. She was able to "follow" Jaime wherever he went because he had taken her doll Billy with him. The first night Jaime was in his motel room, Shaw appeared, but disappeared when Jaime awoke. Jaime then went to the house of Henry Walker, the only man who could tell Jaime about who Mary Shaw was and how she died. Unknowingly, Jaime helped Mary find Henry after many years.