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Anastasia Rose
Steele

Student / Commissioning
Editor, SIP

21 (Fifty Shades of
Age

Grey, Fifty Shades

Darker)

22 (Fifty Shades
Freed)

Born

September 10,
1989, Montesano
WA

Lives

Seattle, WA

Gender

Female

Spouse

Christian Grey

Hair

Dark Brown

Ray Steele (father)

Family

Children

Carla May
Wilks(mother)

Theodore
Raymond
Grey (son)
Phoebe
Grey(daughter)

Anastasia "Ana" Rose Steele is the female protagonist of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy.
She is the primary love interest of Christian Grey, with whom she finds true love.

Contents
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Biography
Childhood
Ana's biological father, Franklin A. Lambert, died from an accident during Marine combat
training the day after her birth. Her mother's second husband, Ray Steele, is the man Ana
considers her "real" father. Ray taught Ana several practical skills, including self-defense,
gun safety, and using tools.
Ana lived with her mother, Carla Wilks, in Las Vegas during her mother's third marriage to
Stephen Morton. Ana eventually moved back to Montesano, WA to live with her stepfather
Ray, on account of not getting along well with her mother's third husband.

Adult Life

At the start of the trilogy, Ana is a senior at Washington State University Vancouver, majoring
in English Literature. She lives with her best friend, Kate Kavanagh.
She starts dating Christian Grey who owns SIP which is a publishing company.

Personality
Ana is shown to be a stubborn but shy and kind-hearted person. Ana loves books
(particularly British Literature) and is studious, maintaining a 4.0 GPA in college. She tends
to be highly insecure about her appearance and does not realize her natural beauty. She
considers herself a "misfit" at the start of the trilogy, preferring to keep to herself. She is also
a virgin before meeting Christian.

Appearance
Anastasia describes herself as a pale, brown-haired young woman with blue eyes too big for
her face. Ana has a fresh, youthful face and innocent appeal. She is described by Christian
as beautiful, very attractive, and alluring, but she is shown to be rather insecure about being
slim, pale, and scruffy. She does not wear much makeup, if any at all, usually wears jeans,
and only owns one skirt at the start of the series. She classifies herself as a "t-shirt and
converse shoes" type of girl. Ana appears to have very little fashion sense as seen in the
bonus material told from Christian's perspective; he is revolted by her mismatched clothes
she wore for his interview. Because she is immensely shy, she blushes easily, which
Christian finds alluring.
In the bonus material of Fifty Shades Freed, Christian notices her "haze" of long, dark
chestnut-colored hair and her large, innocent, powder-blue eyes (in some instances, babyblue colored). Ana has a small frame and a delicate profile, upturned nose, and soft full lips.
She has flawless pale skin, a beautiful body with assets, and is slender and petite, as
Christian towers over her, and she can easily curl up into his lap.

Fifty Shades of Grey

Upon her first meeting with the famous Christian Grey, Ana finds herself utterly attracted to
him. She then begins to grow closer to him over time, but soon learns there is a darker side
to Christian Grey. She learns that he has a double life; he is heavily involved with
the BDSM lifestyle in the privacy of his Escala penthouse and Ana is offered a shocking
proposition from him. Christian wants her to become his next Submissive. He provides Ana
with a contract that outlines her role as a submissive, his role as a dominant, rules and limits.
Anastasia is reluctant about entering such a dark and sexual world considering she has no
experience with sex, but soon finds herself unable to refuse the offer. After getting a taste of
just how painful Christian's proclivities could be, Ana finds herself in over her head and ends
the relationship.

Fifty Shades Darker

After the disastrous end of her relationship with Christian, Ana is heartbroken by her decision
to leave Christian. She claims that the pain of not being with him is worse than the physical
pain that caused her to break up with him. Christian and Ana are unable to deny their
feelings for each other, and the two reunite.
Ana begins working at Seattle Independent Publishing (SIP) as a personal assistant to Jack
Hyde. Christian secretly purchases the company, much to Ana's chagrin. But when Jack
sexually harasses and tries to assault Ana, Christian has him fired.
Christian, desperate to keep Ana in his life, wrestles with his inner demons, and Ana
struggles to create a life that fits with that of Christan's without sacrificing her own identity.
During their time as a couple, Ana is stalked and threatened by Christian's former
submisive Leila Williams. Leila, who was suffering a mental breakdown, was obsessed with
finding out what Ana had that made Christian love her. Despite Christian's reassurances to
the contrary, Ana is still insecure about not being able to meet Christian's sexual
needs. Fearing their relationship is over because of how he acted around Lelia when she
was found, seeing that he will always want control and cannot live without it. At this moment,
Christian breaks down begging Ana to still be with him and never leave him again. He asks
her to marry him, but she tells him that she needs to think about her answer. Ana realises
she couldn't live without him and says yes through her birthday gift to Christian which he
receives after showing up when everyone thought he was dead after his helicopter went
missing on a day trip he was on. Shortly after, Christian, inside a flower covered room,
properly asks Ana to marry him again which she says yes.

Fifty Shades Freed

Ana and Christian can no longer deny their feelings for one another and they soon marry.
Having their honeymoon around Europe, returning home created problems when Ana
refuses to change her surname at work to Grey. Ana is promoted to Editor at SIP and
Christian intends to gift the publishing company to Ana as a wedding present.
Ana accidentally becomes pregnant with their first child, Theodore Raymond Grey, after she
fails to take her birth control over a period of time. Christian walks out on Ana for the
evening. Believing their marriage is nearly at its end, they argue about the baby. When Ana
is contacted by Jack Hyde telling her that he had kidnapped Mia Grey and is holding her for
ransom, Ana must lie to Christian that she doesn't love him anymore and that she is leaving
him and taking five million dollars to start a new life. After he realizes that Ana wasn't leaving
him and that she only lied to save Mia from death, he saves her and Mia from Jack Hyde and
their relationship is stronger than ever.

In the Epilogue of the series, Ana is pregnant with their second child, Phoebe Grey. She has
successfully taken over SIP and has increased its profitability by branching out into ebooks.

Film Adaptation

After months of rumors and speculation, EL James revealed on her twitter account on
September 2, 2013 that Dakota Johnson would play Anastasia Steele in the film adaption
of Fifty Shades of Grey. It is to be released on February 13, 2015.