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Elena Montero or Elena de la Vega is a fictional character from The Mask of Zorro, the feisty daughter of the original Zorro (Anthony Hopkins) and lover to his student (Antonio Banderas). This was the star making role for tall (5'8"), shapely Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, who managed to complement her dark hair and dark eyes with a pitch perfect Spanish accent. She later appears in The Legend of Zorro.

When the evil Raphael invades Don Diego's (Hopkins) home, one of his men kills her mother by accident. Raphael kills the soldier, has Don Diego imprisoned and takes the infant Elena as his own daughter.

As a beautiful, 21 year old adult with no knowledge of her true family, Elena first encounters the second Zorro (Banderas) when he steals some horses on his first night out and again, without realizing it, when he is hiding as a confessional priest and again when he is posing as an aristocrat and shares a passionate dance with him.

She sees him again when he breaks into her false father's home to steal plans and confronts him in the stable, wearing an angelic white bodice and armed with a sword, demanding he return what he has stolen. When he politely refuses, she challenges him to a duel. Having had the proper instruction from the age of four, she holds her own well and manages to disarm Zorro and forces him back. But Zorro manages to retrieve Eléna's own sword and cuts off her bodice, leaving her topless and in nothing but her underwear. With a humiliated gasp, she tries to cover her cleavage with Zorro's hat, but she soon finds herself in his arms. They kiss for a moment, her attraction grows and she leans in for more, but Zorro steps back, takes back his hat, bids her goodbye, and proceeds outside.

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