Leonard Shelby

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Leonard Shelby is the amnesiac insurance investigator in the film "Memento," known for using tattoos and notes to track down his wife's killer despite his inability to form new memories.

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Leonard Shelby canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
film character
appearsIn Memento
appearsInGenre neo-noir mystery thriller film
associatedWith Natalie
Sammy Jankis
Teddy
comparesHimselfTo Sammy Jankis
createdBy Christopher Nolan
Jonathan Nolan
fictionalUniverse Memento
surface form: Memento universe
filmReleaseYear 2000
firstAppearance Memento
surface form: Memento (2000 film)
gender male
goal to find his wife's killer
hairColor blond
hasBackstoryEvent suffers head injury during attack
wife attacked by intruders
hasMedicalCondition anterograde amnesia
short-term memory loss
hasTrait determined
obsessive
paranoid
languageSpoken English
memoryType cannot form new long-term memories
narrativeDevice nonlinear storytelling
nationalityInFiction American
notableFeature body covered in investigative tattoos
notableObject Jaguar
surface form: Jaguar car

suit
notableQuote Remember Sammy Jankis
occupation insurance investigator
portrayedBy Guy Pearce
primarySetting California, United States
surface form: California
reliesOn external memory system
spouse Leonard Shelby's wife
uses Polaroid
surface form: Polaroid photographs

handwritten notes
tattoos

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Memento mainCharacter Leonard Shelby
Sammy Jankis associatedWith Leonard Shelby
Sammy Jankis backstoryToldBy Leonard Shelby