Elizabeth Lee

Elizabeth Lee was the original name of the woman who visited the Inn and became Marie Desjardins in 2006.

Liz was of Korean-American descent and a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is described as small and attractive, with shortish hair and almond-coloured skin. She lived with her boyfriend, Raymond Kim, whom she had dated since junior year of high school. She worked as a manager of a movie theatre with her friend Zoe. She was roommates with Ashlyn Shelley in college, where she majored in drama. Until sometime shortly before August 2006, she kept in contact with casting agents for Korean productions in case they were in need of someone who spoke English.

Her family included an older sister, Tara, who had a son named Billy (aged 4 as of 2006) with her husband Dae-Su Kim. She also had a younger brother, Winston, who was 18 as of 2006, and is noted for being a foot and a half taller than Liz.

At the time of her transformation, she had been carrying on an affair with her co-worker Stewart, a detail about her life she had omitted from her letter to Art, for fear of judgment from Ashlyn, due to Liz being overtly disapproving of some of Ashlyn's own romantic endeavors. However, she noted that she had intended to leave Ray for Stewart at some point, as she and Ray had become "glorified roommates."

In 2006, she transformed into Marie Desjardins and moved to Montreal to live her life, leaving her own life in the care of Arthur Milligan. As Marie, she was kept under tight surveillance, sometimes by Ashlyn as Jean-Michel, due to Marie's boyfriend André Trudeau's paranoia.

As Marie Desjardins, Liz appeared to be in her mid-twenties, caucasian, attractive, with dark hair, high cheekbones and large, expressive brown eyes. She was tall, in comparison to Ashlyn, and curvy.

She returned to the Inn in June 2007 and reclaimed her life. She began sorting her issues out with Ray and accepted her proposal, inviting Ashlyn to be a bridesmaid.