Madame Giry is a character from The Phantom of the Opera.
In some versions of the story, she is entirely absent, or briefly mentioned. In Phantom by Susan Kay, the later is the case. In the 1943 Universal Studies version, directed by Arthur Lubin, she is not mentioned at all. And in the Lon Chaney version, she plays no major role. However, in The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth, she is a rather more prominent figure, the story being started from her point of view as she lays on her deathbed.