Jasmine Jolene

"A star, mama! Mr. Ryan said he's going to make me a star!"

- Jasmine Jolene

Mary-Catherine "Jasmine" Jolene was an exotic dancer at Eve's Garden in Fort Frolic and was the erstwhile mistress of Andrew Ryan.

Career on the Surface
Before the construction of Rapture, Jolene was chorus girl in Sander Cohen's Broadway musicals. Jolene wanted a lead role, but Cohen never showed any interest in her. Andrew Ryan noticed Jolene when he attended Cohen's productions, and he began to act as her patron, even paying for her to take elocution lessons to improve her prospects. Ryan invited Jasmine to come to Rapture, enticing her with the idea that she could perform in a new community with a foreign, resort-like setting.

Life in Rapture
Within Rapture, Jasmine Jolene began working at Eve's Garden in Fort Frolic. With the salary granted to her by Sander Cohen, she was only able to afford housing in Artemis Suites. However, when she became Ryan's mistress Ryan granted her a comfortable lifestyle and a luxurious apartment in Olympus Heights.

In 1956 Jasmine became pregnant by Ryan. She was hesitant to tell Ryan about this, so she asked her friend, Anna Culpepper, for advice. Culpepper advised Jasmine that she should try to become independent so that she wouldn't need to rely on Ryan's continued good will to support her. Frank Fontaine discovered this from the audio recordings of a surveillance device planted in Jolene's rooms.

Using Brigid Tenenbaum as an intermediary, Fontaine offered to pay Jolene a large sum of money in exchange for the fetus of her unborn child, which he planned to nurture to become his "ace in the hole" (Jack) in his schemes against Ryan. Jasmine accepted the offer, seeing it as her only chance to gain financial independence. Jasmine didn't seem to know of Fontaine's involvement, but this mattered little to Ryan, who brutally murdered her after discovering the arrangement.

BioShock
When Jack explores Eve's Garden in Fort Frolic he sees several ghost scenes of Jasmine Jolene. As he explores backstage he finds a locked door and sees the shadows of Andrew Ryan and Jasmine as she is pleading with him; a flashback to when she was murdered. When he enters the room he finds Jasmine's corpse on the bed, with the murder weapon (a lead pipe) and Andrew Ryan's pipe and shoes still present at the scene.

Audio Diary

 * Fort Frolic
 * Pregnancy

Behind the Scenes

 * Jasmine has the body of a Baby Jane model Splicer with Lady Smith model hair.
 * In the BioShock: Rapture novel, Ryan kills Jasmine Jolene by strangling her, but evidence in her room in BioShock suggests that Ryan beat her to death with a pipe.