The "Not-So" Final Girls/Guys

by JakobGarcia | created - 29 Mar 2020 | updated - 29 Mar 2020 | Public

Horror Trend Of Killing Off Previous Survivors In Sequels That Followed

1. Ellie Cornell

Actress | Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Perky actress and producer Ellie Cornell was born in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA. After graduating from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida in 1986, Cornell had a small guest appearance in a 1988 episode of Thirtysomething (1987). The same year, she played an assertive reporter in the...

2. J.C. Brandy

Actress | Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

J.C. Brandy was born on November 15, 1975 in Chelsea, London, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), What Lies Beneath (2000) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). She has been married to Nathaniel Kunkel since July 7, 2005. They have...

3. Nancy Stephens

Actress | Escape from New York

Nancy Stephens was born on July 2, 1949 in Texas, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Escape from New York (1981), Halloween (1978) and Halloween II (1981). She has been married to Rick Rosenthal since May 23, 1981. They have three children.

4. Jamie Lee Curtis

Actress | Halloween

Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She got her big break at acting in 1978 when she won the role of Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978). After that, she became famous for roles in movies like Trading...

5. Danielle Harris

Actress | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

Danielle Harris is an American actress and film director from Plainview, New York. She is regarded as a scream queen for her many roles in horror films. Her better known roles include protagonist Jamie Lloyd in "Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers" (1988) and "Halloween 5: The Revenge of ...

6. Adrienne King

Actress | Friday the 13th

Adrienne was born in and raised Oyster Bay, Long Island and did her first commercial when she was six months old, and has stayed at it with a brief hiatus or two ever since. She has also studied voice and dance, being continually involved in some phase of show business. She has done numerous ...

7. Walt Gorney

Actor | Friday the 13th

Character actor Walt Gorney was born on April 12, 1912 in Vienna, Austria. He came to the United States when he was ten years old and lived with his family in Massachusetts. He had at least three younger sisters. In 1946, Gorney moved to an apartment in Greenwich Village in New York City. Walt ...

8. Heather Langenkamp

Actress | A Nightmare on Elm Street

Heather Langenkamp was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. She got her start in acting when she was cast as an extra in the Francis Ford Coppola films The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983), which were both filmed in Tulsa. Her scenes were deleted from the final cut of both films. While studying at ...

9. John Saxon

Actor | A Nightmare on Elm Street

John Saxon appeared in nearly 200 roles in the movies and on television in a more-than half-century-long career that has stretched over seven decades since he made his big screen debut in 1954 in uncredited small roles in It Should Happen to You (1954) and George Cukor's A Star Is Born (1954). Born...

10. Rodney Eastman

Actor | I Spit on Your Grave

Rodney Eastman was born on July 20, 1967 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor, known for I Spit on Your Grave (2010), A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). He was previously married to Inger Lorre.

11. Ken Sagoes

Actor | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Ken Sagoes, born in Stockbridge, Georgia and raised in Atlanta, is an award winning writer and actor who has over 100 film, TV, and stage credits.

He attended Kennesaw State University and studied writing and directing under the UCLA Extension program. Sagoes also studied under two entertainment ...

12. Tuesday Knight

Actress | A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

Tuesday Knight was born in Brentwood, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988), The Theory of the Leisure Class (2001) and Mistress (1992). She has been married to Paul Gregory since 2016.

13. Danny Hassel

Actor | A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

Danny Hassel was born on December 7, 1967 in Red Bluff, California, USA. He is an actor, known for A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988), A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989) and Nightfall. He has been married to Tamu Hassel since February 21, 1999. They have one child.

14. Jamie Kennedy

Actor | Son of the Mask

James Harvey Kennedy was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, on May 25, 1970. He became interested in acting at the age of 15, and appeared in a movie for the first time at age 19, as an extra in Dead Poets Society (1989). His first role in a movie was as Brad in the film Road to Flin Flon (2000), ...

15. Liev Schreiber

Actor | Spotlight

Liev (pronounced Lee-ev) Schreiber was born in San Francisco. His mother, Heather (Milgram), is a painter, and his father, Tell Schreiber (Tell Carroll Schreiber III), is a theatrical actor who had a small role in The Keeper (1976). His mother is from a working-class Jewish family from Poland and ...

16. Sarah Michelle Gellar

Actress | Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Emmy Award-winning Sarah Michelle Gellar was born on April 14, 1977 in New York City, the daughter of Rosellen (Greenfield), who taught at a nursery school, and Arthur Gellar, who worked in the garment industry. She is of Russian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish descent.

Eating in a local restaurant, ...

17. Michael Biehn

Actor | Aliens

Michael Connell Biehn was born on July 31, 1956 in Anniston, Alabama, to Marcia (Connell) and Don Biehn, a lawyer. He grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and at age 14 moved with his family to Lake Havasu, Arizona, where he won a drama scholarship to the University of Arizona. He left prematurely two ...

18. Carrie Henn

Actress | Aliens

Carrie Henn is a former American child actress, who rose to prominence at the age of ten (10) after co-starring with Sigourney Weaver in the movie "Aliens", the 1986 sequel to the 1979 hit, "Alien". She has been married to her husband Nathan Kutcher since July 2, 2005. They have one child together.

19. Sigourney Weaver

Actress | Alien Resurrection

Sigourney Weaver has created a host of memorable characters, both dramatic and comic, ranging from Ripley in Alien to Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist to Gwen/Tawny in Galaxy Quest and most recently, 14-year-old Kiri in Avatar: The Way of Water. With a career spanning over 50 years, Weaver has ...

20. Lance Henriksen

Actor | Aliens

An intense, versatile actor as adept at playing clean-cut FBI agents as he is psychotic motorcycle-gang leaders, who can go from portraying soulless, murderous vampires to burned-out, world-weary homicide detectives, Lance Henriksen has starred in a variety of films that have allowed him to stretch...



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