Mulholland Drive — Characters & Cast

In the dream, she wants to help Rita and succeed as an actress. In reality, she is driven by a desperate, obsessive love for Camilla and a crushing sense of professional failure.

Starts as the 'Ingénue' Betty, a hopeful and talented actress in a dream world. The arc shatters into the 'Failed Actress' Diane, who is consumed by jealousy, drug use, and suicidal ideation after losing her career and lover.

In reality, Camilla is motivated by fame and power, using her sexuality to climb the Hollywood social ladder while discarding Diane.

Transforms from the vulnerable, amnesiac 'Rita' who is dependent on Betty, into the successful, aloof, and manipulative 'Camilla' who has moved on from Diane to marry a director.

Initially seeks creative control and domestic stability, but shifts to survival and compliance as he realizes the magnitude of the forces against him.

A director who loses control of his film and his personal life (finding his wife cheating). He is eventually forced to surrender his artistic integrity to mysterious forces.