List of Friday the 13th characters


Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that consists of twelve slasher films, a television show, novels, and comic books. The main villain in the series is Jason Voorhees, who drowned at Camp Crystal Lake as a boy due to the negligence of the teenage counselors. Decades later, the lake is rumored to be "cursed" and is the setting for a series of mass murders. Jason is featured in all of the films, either as the killer or as the motivation for the killings. Each entry in the series features a different cast of characters, including a final girl who defeats the killer in the end. Recurring characters in the series include Jason's vengeful mother Pamela Voorhees, Alice Hardy, Tommy Jarvis and Crazy Ralph.

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Abel

Abel is an elderly gentleman who picks up where Crazy Ralph left off by warning teenagers who venture into the area of Camp Crystal Lake. He is met briefly as Chris Higgins nearly runs him over with her van as he is lying in the middle of the road. After thanking the teens for their compassion and kindness, Abel claims that "he" had given him a token to warn off any who venture into the area. He reveals the gift as a disembodied eyeball, which suddenly frightens the teens who drive off and leave him behind as he continues to proclaim his warning. He is never seen again.

Admiral Robertson

Admiral Robertson was the captain of the SS Lazarus cruise ship that a group of graduating senior students from Lakeview High School had boarded to visit New York City. He is the father of Sean Robertson, while in the ship's cabin he and Sean argue over the procedure of how to correctly set sail. During a violent storm Admiral Robertson briefly leaves the wheel, while he is gone Jason kills his first mate. Admiral Robertson returns to the cabin to find the first mate's dead body, Jason then appears from behind and slits his throat with a machete. Admiral Robertson's body is later found by Sean and Rennie.

Alexis Peterson

  • Portrayed by Kathryn Atwood
  • Appears in: Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
  • Status: Deceased
  • Died in: Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Alexis Peterson, Deborah, and Deborah's boyfriend Luke, hitchhiked to Crystal Lake to celebrate Jason's death. When Steven gave them a ride, Alexis flirted with Steven, unsuccessfully trying to persuade him to come with them. After skinny dipping, Alexis slept outside while Luke and Deborah had sex in her tent. While peeing, a Jason-possessed Phil slashed Alexis to death with a scalpel, and propped her corpse on a tree.

Ali

Ali is the leader of a biker gang, consisting of himself, Fox, and Loco. After a tense confrontation with Shelly and Vera at a convenience store, Shelly destroys the gang's bikes in front of Ali. In retaliation, the gang sneaks into Higgins Haven and drains the gas from Chris's van. When Fox and Loco wander into the barn, Ali goes to check on them where he discovers their corpses. Jason then beats Ali unconscious with a pipe wrench. Ali later awakens when Chris is about to be killed by Jason and attacks him. Jason severs Ali's hand and slices him to pieces with his machete, allowing Chris to put Jason down with an axe to the head moments later.
An alternate ending saw Ali and Chris survive and contact the authorities only for Jason's body to be missing when they arrive.

Alice Hardy

Alice Hardy is one of the camp counselors hired by Steve Christy to reopen and work at Camp Crystal Lake. In the film, the counselors are murdered until she is eventually left alone as the only survivor, and is discovered by Pamela Voorhees. Mrs. Voorhees explains to Alice how her son Jason drowned at the camp several years ago, and reveals herself to be the killer. After a long chase and a brief struggle, Alice is finally able to decapitate Mrs. Voorhees with a machete before passing out in a canoe on the lake. There, she suffers a nightmare in which Jason's decayed corpse drags her underwater. The police arrive and take Alice to the hospital. When she tells them her story, they explain that they did not find a boy, to which she replies "Then he's still there..." Alice makes a brief reappearance in the opening scene of Friday the 13th Part 2, where she is stabbed in the temple with an ice pick in her apartment by an adult Jason Voorhees, who evidently survived his childhood drowning and had tracked her down. Later in the movie, Paul explains how Alice went missing and blood was found in her apartment. Her decomposed body is later seen in Jason's shack. Alice also appears in a flashback in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.
Although always the heroine, Alice was originally scripted as a slightly less sympathetic character than seen in the final cut of the first film. In early drafts, she was having an affair with a married man on the West Coast, which was the reason her relationship with Steve Christy is deteriorating and she wants to leave Crystal Lake. Adrienne King claims she played the character as a traditional horror movie character, stating "I think that Alice is a great scream queen heroine. You got the feeling that Alice could handle anything which, in a way, she could". She also expresses regret that, due to the nature of horror movies, audiences never got to see more of Alice's relationship with Steve, or what could have happened between her and fellow counsellor, Bill. Rather than viewing the character as a victim, King describes the role as an "empowering position" due to her survival in the film. Steve Miner, director of Part 2, says "Alice was a very special character: she was the hero of the first film and indestructible in a way. It was important that she be killed off in a dramatic way because this is Jason's film and avenging the death of his mother is what motivates him." Because the character displayed an artistic side in the first film, production designer Virginia Field included various sketches in her apartment to show that Alice was a "real person". She says, "It didn't seem like a big deal at the time we were filming, but I knew that Alice liked to draw and I wanted to show evidence of that." Adrienne King felt that killing her character was somewhat unusual since she had survived so much in the original film. She claims Alice's death was done in such a way to leave the door open for a possible return, but does not know how she could have survived an icepick through the head.
Alice's decayed corpse appears as a part of the model of Jason's shrine to his mother NECA has released. Mezco Toyz has also released a screen grab statuette of Alice, which depicts the hallucination of Jason attacking her from the ending of Friday the 13th. Alice Hardy was Jason Voorhees's first murder victim, yet he murdered her in her house, not at the Crystal Lake Campground.

Andy Beltrami

  • Portrayed by Jeffrey Rogers
  • Appears in: Friday the 13th Part III, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
  • Status: Deceased
  • Died in: Friday the 13th Part III
Andy Beltrami is the boyfriend of Debbie and is also a friend of Chris Higgins, as well as Chuck, Chili, Vera, and Shelly. At Higgins Haven Andy gets into a juggling challenge with Shelly, and Debbie walks up to him, saying there are better things he could be doing with his hands. Andy forfeits and leaves Shelly to his juggling while he and Debbie go upstairs. Later, after Chris and Rick go out for the night, Andy and Debbie finish having sex. Debbie then gets up to take a shower. Andy handstands his way into the bathroom, asking if she wants a beer, to which she accepts. Andy is killed when Jason slices him in half at the groin with his machete. His halves are then wedged in the rafters of Chris's room seen by Debbie moments before she is killed.

Annette Edwards

  • Portrayed by Cynthia Kania
  • Appears in: Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
  • Status: Deceased
  • Died in: Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Annette Edwards and her boyfriend Steven are having a picnic in the woods when they hear a scream. Steven goes to check out the noise and sees Jason killing the local gravedigger Martin. A panicked Steven runs back to Annette who asks him what is wrong, she and Steven board his motorbike but Jason approaches and impales both Steven and her with his machete.

Annie Phillips

  • Portrayed by Robbi Morgan
  • Appears in: Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th Part 2
  • Status: Deceased
  • Died in: Friday the 13th
Annie Phillips is a young teenage girl who hitchhikes her way to Camp Crystal Lake after being hired to work as the camp cook. Arriving in the area, she stops in a diner and one of the locals, Enos, agrees to drive her part of the way to the camp. En route, Enos informs Annie about the camp's notorious history, telling her about the two counselors, Barry and Claudette, who were murdered in 1958, as well as mysterious fires and water contamination that occurred after the deaths of the two counselors. Annie dismisses the warnings, stating that she can't just quit her job. After Enos drops her off, Annie is picked up by someone else, whose identity is not revealed. During this second car ride, Annie tells the driver that she really likes children when she suddenly notices that they have driven past the camp. Annie, panicked, opens the passenger door and jumps out of the car. However, the unknown driver stops alongside the road and pursues Annie into the woods. After a brief chase, the unknown driver of the car finds Annie and slits her throat. Her corpse is later discovered by Alice Hardy inside the car of Pamela Voorhees.