Jessie (Animal Farm)

Jessie is the main protagonist and narrator of the 1999 TV movie Animal Farm, the remake of the 1954 animated film of the same name. She is a young border collie whose life has turned into a nightmare after she and the other farm animals have banished their tyrant owners and then the pigs take their place to transform the farm into a more horrible place.

She voiced by Julia Ormond.

Personality
Jessie has a big heart that does not accept injustice and refuses to let one of her friends be victimized by Mr. Jones.

History
The film opens with a thunderstorm falling on the ruins of what was once "Animal Farm". Jessie begins to recount how the vile dreams of Napoleon poisoned them all. She then appears physically, aged and almost blind with other desperate animals walking in the woods. Jessie then admits that despite everything, she can still remember how it all started.

Many years before, when the farm was still called "Manor Farm", Jessie was first seen greeted Molly, the mare and informed that there will be a meeting in the barn this evening. When his owner, the boisterous and contemptuous Mr. Jones, is about to hit Boxer for having done his job, Jessie jumps on the man who falls and is knocked out. A raven who has seen it all, scolds Jessie for attacking a human only so that the female dog would reply that no human should harm an animal.

Trivia

 * Jessie does not appear in the animated film or in the book. She is probably based on the dog that helped the animals hunt Mr. Jones from the farm but it was fatal and Napoleon took the opportunity to recover his puppies now orphans to make his army.