What is the real name of the hero known as 'Widowmaker'?

The real name of the hero known as “Widowmaker” is Amélie Lacroix. She is a French character in Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch franchise, where she serves as a highly trained sniper and assassin for the terrorist organization Talon.

Before becoming Widowmaker, Amélie was a ballet dancer and the wife of Gérard Lacroix, an Overwatch agent involved in operations against Talon. Talon kidnapped her and subjected her to neural reconditioning, secretly turning her into a sleeper agent. After returning home, she killed Gérard without realizing the full extent of her conditioning.

Amélie later escaped to Talon, which further trained and modified her for combat. The experiments slowed her heart rate, changed her skin color, and suppressed her emotional responses. Players sometimes confuse her with Ana Amari because Ana is a fellow sniper and a key figure in Widowmaker’s backstory, but Ana is a separate hero—and once knew Amélie before her transformation.