Ellen "The Lady" is the heroine of the western 1995 movie, The Quick And The Dead. She was played by Sharon Stone. In 1881, Ellen "The Lady" enters the town of Redemption and there she signs up and gets in a single elimination gun fighting contest held by the town's sinister leader and mayor and ex outlaw, John Herod. She also meets villain turned to the good side and preacher, Cort, who got taken by John Herod and is forced to participate. Ellen "The Lady" saves his life that night when Herod's lackies hung him.