Winifred (Winnie) Foster is the main protagonist of the 2002 film Tuck Everlasting. She was portrayed by Alexis Bledel.
Biography[]
Winnie is a young girl who runs away from home and encounters the Tucks, a family of immortal beings. She develops a deep love for Jesse Tuck, a one-hundred-four-year-old boy trapped in a seventeen year old’s body for all of eternity. A greedy man known as The Man in the Yellow Suit has a plan based on childhood stories he heard from his grandmother about a family who could never die. He set out to find this family of immortals and sell the water they drank from for huge amounts of money. Mae Tuck foils his plans when she clubs him in the head with a shotgun. In the end of the film Winnie helps Mae escape from prison and chooses not to drink from the bottle but instead to die like all other mortals. In the late 1900s, Jesse rides up to the tree on a motorcycle and visits Winnie’s grave under the spring.

Personally & Appearance[]
Winnie Foster is 10 years old (nearly 11)in the book, 11 in the musical and 15 in the movie. She is sweet, kind and stubborn. Winnie has brunette hair and beautiful blue eyes that complements her personally very well.
Fate[]
Winnie chose to a live a mortal life instead of drinking the water from the fountain of youth and waiting for Jesse Tuck to return. Winnie died at 78 years old in 1948 in the books (she died at 100 years old in 1999 in the movie), she died at peace knowing that she helped keep the Tucks and the fountain of youth a secret. Winnie dies from cancer and she did tell her mom but no one else.