Anna De Souza
Anna Catherine De Souza is a fictional character from the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, played by Emma Davies."[1] Actress Emma Davies described Anna as an "extremely fun and confident woman" who also has a "vulnerability", and due to her love for the country, is "more Kim Tate than Sadie King.""[3] Davies said, Anna was extremely close to her father, Donald De Souza (Michael Jayston), while growing up, and helped him build his fortune.A few weeks after her return, Anna hired Miles's ex-girlfriend Jasmine Thomas (Jenna-Louise Coleman) to work on their website revamp as well as running errands.Anna had been claiming that she wanted to learn De Souza Enterprises from the ground up so Carl let her take a company truck for a test drive.He didn't tell her that the fuel tank was only half full and she was soon stranded when the truck broke down on a country lane in the middle of nowhere.Annoyed, Carl complained to Donald, who was incensed to discover Anna was out with Matthew, who he felt was a troublemaker and unsuitable for his daughter.Later, Anna guessed that Carl had betrayed De Souza Enterprises by sending a rich client to King and Sons.Matthew visited Donald in hospital (after sending Carl on a business trip to Brussels) attempting to clear the air between them, saying they had more to gain by working together than against each other.Anna, at first, seemed shocked at his suggestion, asking her father how far she was supposed to go, and showing confusion about the route that their plan for revenge was taking.Donald threatened Anna that he would disinherit her if she didn't break off the engagement, and she furiously insisted that she choose Matthew, and ordered him to leave.Hating to see his fiancée so upset, Matthew told Anna that the only thing that mattered was them, and planned to confront Donald alone.Donald began to suffer chest pains but Matthew, thinking he was making it up, refused to give him his medication until he agreed to attend the wedding.Matthew, panicked, fled the scene and Donald's body was found the next day by cleaners Betty Eagleton (Paula Tilbrook) and Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy), who contacted Anna and the authorities.By the day of the ill-fated wedding, a creditor had got a court order dissolving King & Sons and the bailiffs had arrived at Home Farm.Anna left town for two weeks to track down her brother, Miles, and the Kings agreed not to hold the funeral until her return.A drunken Jimmy lambasted her, but Carl eulogized that Anna had been the first person Matthew had been able to express his love for since their mother's death.