<Li> In the 2017 TV series, he is played by Neil Patrick Harris . </Li> <P> Violet Baudelaire is one of the three protagonists of the series; she appears in all thirteen novels . Violet helps her 12 - year - old brother Klaus and her baby sister Sunny solve problems with her inventing skills . As the eldest, she is the natural leader of the group . Violet is the eldest Baudelaire: she is fourteen at the beginning of the series and turns fifteen in The Grim Grotto . Brett Helquist's drawings indicate she has long, brown hair . </P> <P> When thinking and concentrating on new inventions, Violet ties her hair in a purple ribbon to keep it out of her face . Violet is a brilliant inventor, inventing various items such as a grappling hook that gets her up Count Olaf's tower in The Bad Beginning, a lock pick that enables her to open up Count Olaf's suitcase in The Reptile Room, a signalling device in The Wide Window, a climbing device made from ties, curtains, and extension cords in The Ersatz Elevator, an invention created from a bread and water meal that frees the three siblings from the Village of Fowl Devotees' uptown jail in The Vile Village before two of them are to be burned alive, a rubber band ladder to get out of the burning Heimlich Hospital in The Hostile Hospital, fork - assisted climbing shoes that help her and Quigley Quagmire get up the frozen waterfall of Mount Fraught in The Slippery Slope, and many more . </P> <Ul> <Li> In the 2004 film as well as its video game adaption, Violet is played by Emily Browning . </Li> <Li> In the 2017 TV series, she is played by Malina Weissman . </Li> </Ul>

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