Real Name: Emma Grace Frost

Height: 5' 10"

Weight: 144 lbs.

Eyes: Blue

Hair: Ash blonde

Distinguishing Features: None

Known Aliases: Formerly White Queen

Identity: Frost is known to have been a leader of the Hellfire Club, but her past criminal activities are not public knowledge

Occupation: Co-headmaster of Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, adventurer, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Frost International, former Chairman of the Board of Trustees and headmistress of Massachusetts Academy

Teaches: Ethics

Faculty Advisor: Hellions Squad

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts

Citizenship: United States of America with no criminal record

Maritial Status: Single

Known Relatives: Winston Frost (father), Hazel Frost (mother), Cordelia Frost (sister), Adrienne Frost (sister, deceased), Christian Frost (brother), Steven (full name unrevealed, brother-in-law, deceased), Jocasta (cousin)

Group Affiliation: X-Men, formerly Generation X (headmistress), Hellions (mentor), Hellfire Club (White Queen)

Education: Colledge degree in business administration, qualified sex therapist

Strength Level: Emma Frost possesses the normal human strength of a woman of her age, height, weight and build who engages in moderate regular exercise

Superhuman Powers: Emma Frost is a mutant who possesses various telepathic talents. Emma can read minds and project her thoughts into minds of others, project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciouness, and can also induce mental pain merely by touching the brow of her victim. Emma can telepathically "sedate" her victims so that, if already rendered unconscious, they remain so for as long as she continues to "sedate" them. It is unknown how her "sedating" ability is on victims who are awake.

Furthermore, as a consequence of continued mutation, Emma can now transform her skin and hair into a diamond-hard form at will. In this form, Emma is nigh indestructable except for one small flaw that, if exploited, can cause her to shatter. While in her diamond form Emma's telepathic abilities are suppressed.

Special Skills: Emma is highly skilled in electronics theory and electronics and has learned how to build devices that can amplify psionic energy and utilize psionic energy for various effects. She devised the mechanism by which her Hellfire Club cohort Mastermind projected his illusions directly into the mind of the Phoenix Force.

Paraphenalia: Emma designed a gun-like device which she once used to exchange minds for a period of time with Storm of the X-Men

History: Emma Frost was born into a wealthy old Boston mercantile family that arrived from England in the 1600's. The second of three daughters, Emma also had an older brother named Christian who had turned to substance abuse as an escape from the drudgery of his life. Unknown to their family or themselves, the three sister were mutants whose telepathic abilities matured upon reaching puberty.

When it came time for their father to choose a worthy heir to the family fortune, Christian was automatically dismissed due to his drug problem. While the older sister Adrienne seemed the most obvious choice, their father chose Emma. Surprisingly, she refused, choosing to make her own way through life.

Emma ultimately inherited a good deal of wealth, but most of her large fortune resulted from her professional success. She ascended rapidly to the upper echelon of the business world on the strength of her intelligence, drive, and personal charm, as well as the secret use of her mental powers.

Eventually, Emma became majority stockholder of a multibilliondollar conglomerate principally involved in electronics and transportation - both the building of ships and aircraft, and their use for freight and passenger conveyance. Despite her relative youth, she was named chairwoman of the board and chief executive officer of the rechristened Frost International. She also became headmistress and chairwoman of the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Academy, a college preparatory school for students in grades seven through twelve located in Bershire Mountains in Snow Valley, Massachusetts.

Emma's success caught the attention of the Hellfire Club, an elite social organization consisting of the world's wealthiest and most powerful figures. When she learned that the club was hiring dancers, she promptly audition and used her telepathic talents to enhance her performance in their eyes. Unlike the other females in the Club, Emma was never uncomfortabe with the strict dress code that required female members to wear lingerie at all times. She believed her revealing wardrobe to be one of many weapons in her arsenal, one that gave her an instant advantage over men.

Frost quickly became an ally of Sebastian Shaw, a member of the club's Council of the Chosen who were secretly conspiring to achieve world domination through economic and political means. At the time, the leaders of the club and council -- its foremost Lords Cardinal, whose titles corresponded to the names of chess pieces - were White King Edward Buckman and White Queen Paris Seville.

Buckman threw the council's support behind Project Armageddon, scientist Steven Lang's program to construct mutant-hunting Sentinel robots. Aware of Shaw's genetic disposition, Buckman told him the initiative's intent was to capture mutants as a means of helping the council attain power. Using her psionic powers, Emma learned that the project's actual purpose was the annihilation of all genetic deviants. After Shaw's lover, Lourdes Chantel, was murdered by one of the Sentinels, Shaw and Frost staged a coup that saw them seize control of the Council of the Chosen, which they renamed the Inner Circle. Shaw took the title of Black King, and Frost became the new White Queen.

Under Shaw and Frost's leadership, mutants dominated the Inner Circle. To strengthen the Club's power base, Emma recruited genetically gifted youngsters and helped them hone their abilities at her school. Most of these students were members of the Hellions, Emma's first mutant super-team. She initially encountered the outlaw band of heroic mutant adventurers known as the X-Men when she usuccessfully attempted to recruit young Kitty Pryde, the phase-shifting mutant known as Shadowcat. Subsequently, Emma crossed paths with the X-Men - and their proteges, the New Mutants - on a number of occassions, often as their adversary. Later, the X-Men joined with the Hellions to protect the White Queen from the time-traveling terrorist named Trevor Fitzroy. However, the madman's brutal assault plunged Emma into a deep coma and brought about the Hellion's untimely demise.

While Emma'a consciouness was still active on the material plane, her body was kept in the med-lab of the X-Men's mansion. Seeking to ensure her students' welfare and the school's future, Emma had willed the responsibility for the Massachusetts Academy to Professor Charles Xavier, the X-Men's telepathic founder. During her psychic incapacitation, the school was added to the rapidly expading Xavier Institute. While Emma's corporeal form was in stasis, a short-circuit in the mansion inadvertently caused her psyche to possess the X-Man named Iceman, while his mind was transfered to her body.

Coerced by Professor X, Emma eventually reclaimed her own form. After making a full recovery, she resumed her role as headmistress of the academy. Ably assisted by Sean Cassidy, the sonically empowered former X-Man known as Banshee, she set out to train a new crop of young mutants: Generation X. When the sinking stock market dealt Frost International a major blow, Emma swallowed her pride and sought the help of her older sister, Adrienne, who agreed to support her sibbling's flagging financial interests only if she were named co-headmaster. But Adrienne's power play did not wind down when Emma acceded her request, nor did it end when she supplanted her sister as the Hellfire Club's White Queen. Only after Adrienne telepathically incited a riot at the school did Emma find a way to upset her assension: the way of the gun. Emma shot and killed her sister, thereby laying claim to Adrienne's inheritance.

Following the dissolution of Generation X and the closure of the Massachusetts Academy, Emma moved to the island nation of Genosha where she began teaching mutant children again. Soon after, a Sentinel attack wiped out Genosha's entire mutant population. The X-Men found Emma alive in the rubble, having undergone a secondary mutagenic change that allowed her to survive the onslaught. Emma came back to teach at the Xavier Institute, and soon took on the responsibility of personally mentoring the telepahic quintuplets known as the Stepford Cuckoos.

Emma later counselled her teammate Cyclops following his possession by the eternal mutant warlord Apocalyse. This soon turned into a telepathic affair between the two that was short-lived after Cyclops's wife, Jean Grey, discovered what was happening.

Sophie, one of the Cuckoos, died during the riot at the Xavier Institute. The remaining sisters blamed Emma for this and told Jean Grey-Summers of Emma's affair with her husband. When Emma was confronted by Jean, she was forced to relive various moments of her past. Following the confrontation, Emma was shot with a diamond bullet while in her diamond form, shattering it. Though she was believed to be dead at first, Emma's consciouness was trapped in her shattered remains. Phoenix discovered this and telekinetically fused Emma's body back together. Upon being reassembled, Emma identified Esme of the Cuckoos as the culprit behind her assassination. However, Esme was working with Magneto at the time, and it was he who shot Emma, as she had learned of his dual identity as the X-Man Xorn.