*Shosanna Dreyfus (alias Emmanuelle Mimieux) is one of the main protagonists of the film. She is the owner of Le Gamaar Cinema. After some turn of events made her cinema the venue of the premiering of Stolz der Nation, she hatched a plan, independent of The Basterds, to eliminate the Nazi top command. She died with Frederick Zoller in the cinema's projector room. Throughout the film, she mostly speaks French and only spoke English once during her address towards the Germans on the movie screen, in which the Nazis are later killed by the Basterds.

Shosanna Dreyfus was born in France, circa 1923, in a dairy farm from a village in Nancy. She had a brother, Amos, a father, Jakob, a mother, Miriam, and an uncle, Bob.

Shosanna is a rather serious woman, and is also very brave and resourceful. She hates Nazis with a passion, largely due to the fact that one was responsible for the death of her family. This also shows that she's pretty loyal to her family and even willing to die for her family, but she's also willing to bring the Nazi regime to justice. Shosanna is similar to "Prince Hamlet", because of her will to bring the wicked people to justice, but also because she wanted to get her vengeance. Also, like Hamlet, she died while getting her vengeance, and also destroyed everything in her way. An example of this is her cold behavior towards Zoller, who was trying to prove his love towards her. An apparent moment of pity and dropping her guard is what led to her ultimate demise. Despite this, she still could be considered as a heroine because of her efforts to bring down the evil Nazi regime, thus saving many people in the process.*