Raccoon City) is the daughter of William and Annette Birkin. She first appears in Resident Evil 2, running away and hiding in Raccoon City during the outbreak. She manages to find Leon and Claire, who protect her while trying to escape the city. Sherry is a playable character in some parts of the game but she is completely unarmed and can only avoid the monsters. In the remake, she is abducted and held hostage by Brian Irons before being rescued by Claire. Her father has been transformed into a monstrous creature by the G-virus and infects her, but Claire gives Sherry an anti-virus, which prevents her from mutating. Sherry assists Leon and Claire in boarding a secret underground train, and successfully escapes Raccoon City before it is destroyed. Sherry also appears in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles in chapters that recapitulate the events of Resident Evil 2. She returns as an adult in Resident Evil 6 as a government agent escorting Jake Muller and seems to have acquired great healing abilities from the remnants of the G-virus in her body. During the course of the game, she helps Jake deal with the fact that Albert Wesker is his father. She also learns from Leon S. Kennedy that her superior, Derek C. Simmons, is the man responsible for the U.S. President's death. She and Jake subsequently ally with Leon, Chris Redfield and their partners in thwarting Carla Radames' plans. In the reboot film Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021), Sherry is played by Holly de Barros. Derek C. Simmons Voiced by (English): David Lodge (RE6) Voiced by (Japanese): Takayuki Sugō (RE6) Derek Clifford Simmons is the primary antagonist of Leon's campaign in Resident Evil 6. Simmons is the National Security Advisor and a close friend to Adam Benford. He is the leader of a secret organization known as "The Family" whose ancestor founded, using its vast political influence to maintain world order. He hired Ada Wong to acquire the G-Virus while overseeing the missile strike on Raccoon City, taking her resignation hard as he became Sherry Birkin's legal guardian. He secretly used a sample of her G-Virus-enhanced blood to synthesize the C-Virus, using a variant of it to turn his top scientist Carla Radames into a clone of Ada Wong he later deploys to capture Jake Muller. Simmons then orchestrates the assassination of president Benford in fear that his act