Mortimer "Mo" Folchart is a fictional character in Cornelia Funke's Inkheart trilogy. He is a bookbinder and has the ability to bring fictional characters to life in the "real world" by reading aloud from books. He has a daughter named Meggie who also has the talent to bring characters out of books. His wife, named Resa, had spent some years in Inkworld when sucked into the book Inkheart. Mo is portrayed by Brendan Fraser in the Inkheart film. Funke has said that she wrote the character with Fraser in mind. Fraser provides the voice for the Inkheart audio books.
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“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
—John Mortimer (b. 1923)