She has a scar which cut her face from forehead to jaw, a wrenched mouth, a stump nose, and a single eye.
[2] In the first novel of the Mortal Engines Quartet (known in the US as The Hungry City Chronicles), Mortal Engines, her botched assassination attempt on Thaddeus Valentine led to her meeting Tom Natsworthy and set off a chain of events that would change the course of history.
In the Mortal Engines student short film made in 2009, Alyssa Burnett plays Hester.
[6] In Mortal Engines, the film adaptation of the first book, Hester is portrayed by Icelandic actress Hera Hilmar as an adult, while the young Hester is played by New Zealand child actress Poppy Macleod.
[11][12] Reviewers from FilmBook, Screen Rant, and USA Today remarked that this rendition of Hester lacks character development.