List of Scream Queens characters


The following is a list of characters from Fox's black comedy slasher television series, Scream Queens, which aired from September 2015 to December 2016. Created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan, and produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Ryan Murphy Productions, the series features an ensemble cast including Emma Roberts, Lea Michele, Jamie Lee Curtis, and others.
The first season focuses on the Kappa Kappa Tau sorority at Wallace University, led by Chanel Oberlin, as it is targeted by a serial killer who dresses in the Red Devil mascot uniform as a disguise. The second season focuses on the murder spree committed by another serial killer using a Green Meanie costume at the C.U.R.E. institute, a new hospital where Chanel and other characters work. The show blends humor with horror. It was filmed at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Overview

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Chanel Oberlin

Season One

is an egotistical and sociopathic president of Kappa Kappa Tau at Wallace University. She is suspected of burning her predecessor, [|Melanie Dorkus], after filling her spray tan tank with hydrochloric acid in retribution for her abuse. Her cruel attitude and entitled personality, coupled with decades of shady activities within the sorority, lead the Dean, Cathy Munsch, to revoke the charter. However, Gigi intervenes, and Chanel is horrified when she is forced to accept anyone who wishes to join Kappa, causing all the other sisters and potential pledges, aside from her minions known as the Chanels, to leave.
She is the on-and-off girlfriend of Chad Radwell, the head of the Dickie Dollar Scholars fraternity. She harbors hatred toward [|Chanel #5] and often insults her. She also becomes suspicious of Hester, who had undergone a major makeover to become Chanel #6. She was sent to prison after Chanel [|#5], under the control of Hester, turned her in for the incident involving Ms. Bean, who was unintentionally murdered by Chanel in a prank gone wrong.
She harbors anger towards [|Grace] and [|Zayday] after the latter runs for the presidency of Kappa Kappa Tau. The two are forced to become co-presidents after the votes tie. Chanel then reveals that she deliberately wanted Zayday to become president to save herself from becoming a target of the [|Red Devil]. She and the Chanels plan to expose Grace and Zayday, as she believes they are working with the Red Devil. Meanwhile, the other Chanels plan to murder Chanel out of fear that she is the killer, which she reluctantly forgives them for.
During her quest to prove that Grace is one of the killers, she uncovers information about the true identity of Grace's mother and cruelly reveals it to her. However, she later apologizes and admits that she has an abusive mother herself.
In "Black Friday", Chanel and her Chanels have an encounter with the Red Devil while shopping during the Black Friday sale. When Chanel is cornered by the Red Devil, Chanel is maimed with an arrow before Denise Hemphill arrives, revealing that she is now the head of the police. After recovering, Chanel assumes that Dean Munsch is the Red Devil and plans with the Chanels and Zayday to do away with her. However, all of her attempts are unfounded, including her last effort to drown her, which is foiled. When she writes a long and cruel missive to the other Chanels because of their failure to help her in her last attempt to kill the Dean, the media takes hold of the said letter which ruins her reputation. She contemplates suicide but was convinced by Zayday to keep fighting, thus inspiring her to bounce back. Part of this is faking an apology to Melanie and attempting to kill her, as Chanel thought that Melanie was the Red Devil, before Grace reveals the Red Devil is Hester.
In "The Final Girl," Chanel and the other Chanels are arrested upon Hester claiming they were behind the Red Devil killings and are sent away to Palmer Asylum. While incarcerated, Chanel rises to become asylum president. With a release from the constant pressures of society, she and the other two Chanels find happiness in their new home and even expressed not wanting to leave at all.

Season Two

In Season Two, Chanel, [|#3], and #5 leave the asylum after Hester confesses to her crimes due to misunderstanding how double jeopardy works. Chanel graduates from community college, becoming a phlebotomist to rehabilitate her image, as the Chanels were previously hated by the public. Disowned by her wealthy parents, she lives in a rundown apartment with #3 and #5. Cathy Munsch offers Chanel a job at the C.U.R.E Institute Hospital, where she becomes a medical student and dates Dr. Brock Holt. Chanel takes over Dr. Scarlett's show, "Lovin The D," rebranding it to "Lovin The C," with #3 as her executive producer. In the final scene, Chanel discovers an old Kappa Kappa Tau ring and encounters the Red Devil in her car, prompting a scream.

Reception

Roberts' performance has been met with positive reviews from critics. IGN stated, "Two Murphy alums, Emma Roberts and Lea Michele, continued to prove that they're great at delivering his dialogue. Roberts in particular was a standout for me, and I relished every bitchy, whiny Chanel line she would give us." The Hollywood Reporter said, of Roberts' performance, "The Scream Queens creators revel in writing mean girls, and Roberts gives gung-ho commitment to spewing the worst of Chanel's eviscerating insults — Chanel's a solipsist, so we're not supposed to quibble at how floridly racist and misogynistic she sounds — while pausing to give just enough beats of underlying humanity." Her performance has also been praised by her fellow cast members, with Jamie Lee Curtis stating "with her delivery. It's a great kind of performance, to then breed the rest of all of us into sync."

Denise Hemphill

Denise Hemphill is Kappa Kappa Tau's new security guard, hired by Gigi. She is very dedicated to her job, though is somewhat incompetent. Her good friend Shondell is murdered by the Red Devil and Denise vows to find out their identity, believing that it is Zayday. Revealed in "Black Friday", when most of the police force was fired, she became the new police chief. She and two other officers corner the Red Devil who injured Chanel, she told Chanel about her promotion unintentionally allowing the Red Devil to kill one of the officers and escape.
In season two, Denise played a part in exposing Hester's confession when she played the tape at Chanels' retrial. When the Green Meanie killer starts killing the patients at the hospital Dean Munsch hires Denise to catch the killer, she also lets them visit Hester to try to find out who the killer is which she knows so they move Hester into the hospital. After Chad's death she lets Hester free to go to the Halloween party only so after she will reveal who the killer is but Hester escapes and after finding Chanel #5 stabbed, the Green Meanie throws punch on her and then electrocutes her with a defibrillator, incapacitating her, later her body would be sent into a cryogenic chamber after Dean Munsch reveals Denise still has a slight heartbeat and hopes to bring her back to life. In the finale, Nurse Hoffel turns off her machine to use the power to plant the bombs in the hospital and Denise wakes up just in time to defuse the bomb to save everyone and helps chases Nurse Hoffel into the swamp where they all agree to leave her to die in quicksand.

Grace Gardner

Grace Gardner is the Kappa Kappa Tau vice president, formerly pledge, who is also legacy as her late mother Bethany Stevens was the KKT President back in 1995 and refused to help Sophia Doyle, who gave birth in a bathtub during a KKT party. She is horrified by Chanel's behaviour and the current reputation of the sorority and plans to restore Kappa to the way it used to be. She does so by working with [|Pete], a coffee shop barista who is a secretive investigative journalist. As well as restoring the reputation of KKT, they also are curious about revealing the Red Devil serial killer. She becomes best friends with Zayday Williams, who is also a pledge of Kappa. During Halloween, she supports Zayday's presidency and her charity haunted house she puts together, but when Zayday is kidnapped by the Red Devil, she and Pete go on a search party to find her, and after discovering the Red Devil's evil lair she notices Zayday has disappeared. She then finds Zayday back in Kappa Kappa Tau and is overjoyed when she becomes co-president of Kappa House. She displays a secret hatred toward her father's relationship with Gigi Caldwell. During her investigation, she is horrified to discover that, besides being responsible for the bathtub incident, her mother was a violent drug dealer and alcoholic, and that her father had lied to her about who her mother was. During a Thanksgiving dinner held inside the house, her father accuses her of being the killer. She is shocked, yet he reveals she was snooping around the house when Melanie Dorkus was viciously disfigured and was found by her father meeting Pete dressed in a Red Devil costume. After discovering that Wes is the father of the bathtub babies and she is the half-sister of Boone and the Red Devil, she forgives him and the two decide to catch or kill her siblings to protect each other. In the first-season finale, Grace confronts Pete as he reveals he is one of the Red Devils and killed Boone and Roger and Dodger before he exclaims that the final Red Devil is a KKT pledge causing Grace and Zayday to investigate. In the fast forward to 2016, Grace and Zayday, with Hester, now run Kappa House and have regained the honour of KKT by allowing any girl to join and host fun competitions and games instead of hazing the pledges.
Skyler Samuels did not reprise the role in the second season since she returned to Stanford University to finish her degree, which was halted when she was shooting the first season. Her character's absence was not addressed at first, but near the end of the season it was revealed by Wes that after the Wallace University murders, Grace tried to have a normal life again and put on an act around her father that everything was okay. But because of the horrible trauma of the Red Devil killings and the Kappa hazing she experienced, she was said to have been driven to insanity and she ended up in a mental institution in Stanford.