Baroness von Hellman, mainly called the Baroness, is the main antagonist of the 2021 black comedy crime film Cruella. She is an esteemed fashion designer operating in London and the founder of the House of Baroness who is fiercely protective of her position and reputation. Though at first an insufferable boss for the ambitious Cruella De Vil under a fake identity, the Baroness soon turns out into a real threat upon discovering of Cruella's duplicity, in addition to the reveal that she is Cruella's biological mother, becoming her archnemesis in the process.