Mrs Claus is the legendary wife of Santa Claus, the Christmas gift-bringer in Western Christmas tradition.
21 Facts About Mrs Claus
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Mrs Claus is known for making cookies with the elves, caring for the reindeer, and preparing toys with her husband.
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The wife of Santa Claus is first mentioned in the short story "A Christmas Legend", by James Rees, a Philadelphia-based Christian missionary.
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Santa Mrs Claus' wife made her most active appearance yet by Katharine Lee Bates in her poem "Goody Santa Mrs Claus on a Sleigh Ride".
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Since 1889, Mrs Claus has been traditionally depicted in media as a fairly heavy-set, kindly, white-haired elderly female baking cookies or mending clothes somewhere in the background of the Santa Claus mythos.
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Mrs Claus is sometimes depicted in her youth to have had red hair.
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Mrs Claus is usually depicted wearing a fur dress of red or green.
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Today, Mrs Claus is commonly seen in cartoons, on greeting cards, in knick-knacks such as Christmas tree ornaments, dolls, and salt and pepper shakers, in storybooks, in seasonal school plays and pageants, in parades, in a department store "Santa Lands" as a character adjacent to the throned Santa Claus, in television programs, and live-action and animated films that deal with Christmas and the world of Santa Claus.
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Mrs Claus's personality tends to be fairly consistent; she is usually seen as a calm, kind, and patient woman, often in contrast to Santa himself, who can be prone to acting too exuberant.
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In more recent films such as The Santa Clause series, Fred Claus, and The Christmas Chronicles series, Mrs Claus is not always depicted according to the elderly white-haired stereotype, but sometimes appears to be younger than Santa.
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Mrs Claus departs even further from the stereotype in more recent films, such as the 2020 Mel Gibson film Fatman, where she is a black woman played by Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
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Mrs Claus has appeared as a secondary character in children's books about Santa Claus and as the main character in titles about herself.
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In Santa Mrs Claus Is Comin' to Town, she is introduced as a teacher named Jessica, who first meets Kris Kringle as a young man trying to deliver toys to a town ruled by a despot.
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Anna Mrs Claus then joins Santa on an improved route around the world.
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Mrs Claus appears in A Chipmunk Christmas, where she buys Alvin a harmonica after he gives his old one to a sick boy.
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Mrs Claus's identity isn't revealed until the end when Santa returns home and she greets him.
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Mrs Claus appears as a character in Duncanville where the eponymous character Duncan Harris has a crush on her and refers to her by her first name "Mary".
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The campaign included a three-minute ad released on 11 November 2016 which sees Mrs Claus receiving a letter from a seven-year-old child asking for help with a gift for his older sister, with whom the boy has a difficult relationship.
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The brand created a social media campaign in which Mrs Claus answered requests and questions from members of the public.
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The ad was directed by Academy-award winner Tom Hooper with Mrs Claus played by British actress Janet McTeer.
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In contrast to her stereotypical portrayal, Mrs Claus is portrayed as a woman bored with her relationship with Santa Claus in the song "Surabaya-Santa" from Jason Robert Brown's musical Songs for a New World and in the Oszkars' off-color song "Mrs Claus has a Headache Again".