Vera Keyes

 was a Pre-War celebrity.

Background
Vera Keyes was a starlet before the Great War and was also one of the celebrity notables invited to the Grand Opening of the Sierra Madre Casino. She was inside her suite at the Sierra Madre when the nuclear bombs fell across the US, which caused the casino's security system to engage and hermetically seal off the hotel. Unable to escape, Vera chose the only way out left to her, and overdosed on Med-X obtained from the Auto-Doc Mk I found in her bedroom. If her medical report on the Auto-Doc is accessed, the player will learn that Vera was often in pain physically and tried to control this using a cocktail of Super Stimpaks and Med-X. Doctors were also increasingly worried about her committing suicide before the bombs fell and recommended psychological evaluations. It should also be noted that the graffiti above her bed says "let go", which also seems to be the focus of her farewell speech to the Courier once he leaves Sierra Madre. During her stay at Sierra Madre Casino, Vera began an affair with Dean Domino and agreed to help him break into the casino vault. Dean appears to confirm this when he says that "Sinclair wanted her, but I had her first."; evidence for this can also been found in the casino vault. Keyes began to get cold feet about the heist however, and Domino resorted to blackmailing her with her chem addictions (confirmed by Domino's speech and also finding Dean's blackmail holotape in the Tampico). It seems that Sinclair was also aware of their affair but did not change his plans to save Vera by giving her a place in the vault. In a play on her name, Sinclair made Keyes herself (her voice) the key to the Sierra Madre Casino Vault. Sinclair devoted The Sierra Madre to her and you can see Vera's picture on posters around the Mojave Wasteland and in the casino itself.

Appearances
's corpse appears in, and is only mentioned in, Dead Money.