In Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, Marsellus Wallace’s wife is Mia Wallace. Uma Thurman plays Mia, while Ving Rhames plays her husband, the powerful Los Angeles crime boss Marsellus Wallace.
Mia’s evening with Vincent Vega forms one of the film’s best-known episodes. Marsellus asks Vincent to keep her company while he is away, and the pair visit Jack Rabbit Slim’s, a restaurant designed around 1950s popular culture.
Their night includes a twist contest, conversation about Mia’s brief television-pilot appearance, and a medical emergency after Mia mistakenly snorts heroin believing it is cocaine. These events help define her as charismatic, unpredictable, and central to the film’s nonlinear structure.
Mia is sometimes confused with Fabienne, Butch Coolidge’s girlfriend. Fabienne is played by Maria de Medeiros and appears in a separate storyline.