In Madagascar, the elderly woman who battles Alex in Central Park is Nana.
Nana appears during the zoo animals’ escape through New York City. After Alex is separated from Marty, Melman, and Gloria, he encounters the seemingly fragile woman on a city street. She reacts with surprising toughness and physically confronts the lion, creating one of the film’s comic reversals.
The character is identified as Nana in the film’s dialogue and credits. Her strength is part of the movie’s broader joke that the zoo animals misunderstand ordinary human life while New Yorkers treat their escape as an unusual public disturbance.
Nana is sometimes confused with the film’s zoo staff or with unnamed New York pedestrians, but she is a distinct named character. Her brief appearance is memorable because it gives Alex an unexpected opponent before the animals leave the city and begin their journey toward Madagascar.