Characters in the Resident Evil films
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This article covers characters introduced in the Resident Evil film series. The original Resident Evil was not based on any particular game in the series and the cast was comprised entirely of original characters made for the film. The sequels Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Resident Evil: Extinction borrows plot elements from the games and adapts established characters such as Jill Valentine and Claire Redfield in the films' continuity.
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[edit] Characters in Resident Evil
[edit] Alice
[edit] Matt Addison
Matt Addison is a fictional character of the Resident Evil movies. He is played by Eric Mabius.
Matt Addison is first introduced when he grabs Alice inside the mansion. He claims to be a police officer working for the R.P.D when he is apprehended by one of the masked Umbrella Corporation commandos during a mission into The Hive; but it is later revealed that the I.D. was a fake, only being used to gain access into The Hive. The mission is to investigate the Red Queen's actions after sealing the facility and killing everyone. Both Alice and Matt are taken into the underground complex.
Matt is handcuffed and is watched over by Rain and J.D while the other team members continue into the Red Queen's chamber. After successfully deactivating the Red Queen, all the doors in the facility open releasing a group of monsters. After the discovery of a survivor Rain stumbles upon, Matt states the blood from the woman is coagulated and doesn't happen until the person's dead. The team is surrounded by legions of the undead Umbrella employees. Rain, J.D, and Kaplan proceed to dispose of them. Several bullets hit one of the surrounding tanks which causes an explosion. Matt spots the keys and uncuffs himself to complete his own mission: To find his sister Lisa.
Matt is joined by Alice where he explains his mission was to expose Umbrella's dark secrets. He explains that his sister was working in the research facility in order to smuggle out a sample of the T-Virus. He also reveals she had a contact within the Hive who has access to security codes.
When realising the mission has now become a survival fight, the team attempt to escape the complex via train. Before successfully escaping, the train is attacked by a Licker, which scratched Matt on his arm and killed Kaplan. After the creature is killed, Matt and Alice escape the complex. Matt's arm begins to mutate due to an infection from the T-Virus.
Before Alice has a chance to administer the Anti-Virus, Umbrella scientists seize both Alice and Matt. Dr. William Birkin orders that Matt be placed into the Nemesis program.
In the 2004 film Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Matt was only shown through Alice's flashbacks, it is revealed that Matt Addison was actually Nemesis (played by Matthew G. Taylor), a direct result to the Nemesis Program. It is unsure if he remembers Alice from the Hive incident after being impaled by the jagged piece of metal, but his actions would strongly suggest that he does. Before the nuclear strike at Raccoon City, he helps Alice fight against the Umbrella commandos. Nemesis was apparently killed when a shot-down helicopter crash-landed onto him (in the novel adaptation of the movie, it is revealed he is only incapacitated under the helicopter and that he doesn't actually die until the nuclear strike occurs).
[edit] Rain Ocampo
Rain Ocampo was one of only two female members of One's commando team, Rain was extremely volatile and confrontational. Regardless, she was the group's most skilled marksman, and had at least one close friend in J.D. Salinas. Rain, J.D., and Matt Addison were attacked by a horde of zombies while waiting for their teammates, and Rain was bitten savagely on the hand, thus becoming infected with the T-Virus. She sustained more bites over the course of the survivors' escape from the Hive, speeding up the rate of infection. A tough young woman from the word go, Rain is still determined to prove her worth as a valuable asset to the team of survivors. But eventually, she transforms into a zombie aboard the escape train (despite being given the anti-virus by Alice), and thus Matt was forced to shoot her in the head.
In the novelization, Rain's last name is given as Melendez and it is revealed that she joined Umbrella after her gender had resulted in her failure to be a member of any other SWAT team similar to her character in the movie S.W.A.T.
Rain is played by Michelle Rodriguez
[edit] Spence Parks
Spence Parks (full name Percival Spencer Parks) is a fictional character from the movie Resident Evil. In the film, Spence is a security operative placed at The Hive by the Umbrella Corporation to protect its main entrance. He is played by James Purefoy.
While on the underground train to The Hive, a member of a commando team pulls open a stuck door, only to find a disoriented Spence inside. His symptoms seem to be the same as Alice, who was suffering from the effects of a nerve gas released in the Spencer Mansion. They are taken in with the team, who were sent to investigate the reason the Red Queen killed all the employees within the Hive, and is told who he truly is. Spence is told that he is a Security Operative placed at the mansion and that his revealed marriage to Alice was a fake, only created to protect his cover at The Hive.
While in The Hive, they discover the horror that occurred there. A sample of the T-virus, a virus capable of regenerating dead cells and causing uncontrollable mutation (bring the dead back to life) was released within The Hive. The Red Queen, a state of the art super computer modelled after the head programmer's daughter and designed to monitor Hive’s activities, employees, experiments, and the T-Virus, killed all the employees inside to stop further contamination. Spence follows the orders of the commando team, but when they are slowly killed off from the Red Queen's death traps, he is forced to fight along with them. Throughout the events in The Hive, Alice began seeing flashbacks of Spence and their life before.
Spence had planned to steal the T-Virus and sell it on the black market, but he partially did this for Alice as well. Even though their marriage was cover for their true identities, it is revealed that they had a romantic relationship as well. Before leaving to steal the virus, Spence leaves Alice a note as she sleeps, reading "Today all your dreams come true -x-". And it was also he who had callously released the virus in the Hive in order to cover up the theft.
Spence's efforts are not appreciated by Alice, who wants to take down Umbrella Corporation by shedding light on the illegal experimentation. Taking a cynical good-bye from them, Spence leaves Alice and the other survivors locked in the virus lab and heads for the train, on which he has hid the samples for both the virus and the anti-virus. On the way to the train, he is attacked by the Licker, set loose by the Red Queen. As Alice, Matt, Rain and Kaplan make it back to the train, Alice is attacked by Spence, who has been infected with the virus but, due to his considerable injuries from the attack by the Licker, is only able to crawl to her. Alice, after saying a cynical goodbye to the zombified Spence, takes an axe and kills him with one swift blow to the head.
[edit] Lisa Addison
Lisa Addison is a fictional character from the film Resident Evil. She is the sister of environmentalist Matt Addison. Lisa was played by Heike Makatsch.
Lisa was employed by the Umbrella Corporation but secretly had a plan to smuggle out a sample of the t-virus, to expose Umbrella's secret experiments. Lisa was contacted by Alice prior to the outbreak and was given security codes to successfully smuggle out a sample.
During the outbreak in the Hive, Lisa was gassed to death by the Red Queen to prevent the virus from reaching the surface. She turned into a zombie and was later hit in the head by Alice with a letter weight while attempting to attack her brother. The injury apparently proved to be immediately fatal, as she did not stir again afterwards.
[edit] James "One" Shade
James "One" Shade (Colin Salmon) was the leader of the commando team. A good leader, he impressed Alice with his abilities and cared for his men. He was quiet and businesslike and to nearly everyone, he was known as "One". He was killed by the Red Queen when she cut into him with an unavoidable laser grid. Ironically, this turns "One" into "Hundreds" of small pieces.
[edit] J.D. Salinas
J.D. Salinas was a soldier on the team who was a good friend of Rain. He and Rain were the first to encounter the zombies, who wounded Rain. While trying to escape the zombie hordes set loose upon them, he was grabbed and pulled away from her into a corridor swarming with walking dead, where they fell upon him. He became a zombie and was later shot by Rain after he had attacked and wounded her. In the novelization of the film, J.D.'s surname is given as Hawkins.
[edit] Chad Kaplan
Chad Kaplan(Martin Crewes) was the computer expert and the unexperienced rookie of the team. He was very jumpy after One, the medic, and the other team members were killed. Whilst escaping the Hive at the end of the movie, he was killed by the Licker on the train. The novelization of the film gives Kaplan's first name as Bart, and expands somewhat on his backstory. It is said he is a former FBI computer technician who was recruited into Umbrella to do field work. It is also said he is one of the few people who knows One's real name.
[edit] The Medic
The Medic (Liz May Brice) was the medic of the team and her name was unknown. She checked to see if Matt was okay when they found him. Her head was chopped off by the laser created by the Red Queen. Her name in the novelization is given as Olga Danilova.
[edit] The Commandoes
Warner and Twelve (Torsten Jerabek and Marc Logan-Black) were the other two commandoes in One's team. One of them was presumably killed when he went into shock after the Red Queen's laser ripped off his fingers (the medic had died) and One tried his best to keep him awake but failed. The other tried to jump over the laser but got cut in half by it. Despite being simply identified in the credits as "Commando #1" and "Commando #2," their names are shown during a brief scene as they approach the Hive entrance and are scanned by the Red Queen. Their names in the novelization are given as Alfonso Warner and Vance Drew.
Twelve originally had a much larger role in the original script. He was the team's computer expert instead of Kaplan, and did more or less everything Kaplan does in the finished film. However for unknown reasons Twelve was "demoted" to being a minor character and all of his dialogue and his role in the story was given to Kaplan.
It's worth noting that it would be very odd for a person to die from shock just because their fingers were cut off, though it could also be seen that he died from not being able to move when the lasers became more precise.
[edit] Red Queen
The Red Queen is a fictional character in the Resident Evil film. The Red Queen was voiced by Michaela Dicker.
The Red Queen is a state of the art super computer, whose holographic avatar was modeled after Angela Ashford, daughter of Dr. Charles Ashford, the head programmer, and was designed to monitor the Hive's activities, employees, experiments, and the T-virus. Her system also expands through the Spencer Mansion. During the T-virus outbreak, her primary defenses were activated, locking everyone inside to prevent the virus from escaping. She proceeds to flood the laboratories, stop the elevators, and kill everyone inside with Halon gas.
When a commando team (revealed in the second movie as the U.B.C.S.) sent by Umbrella arrives at the Hive to investigate the loss of communication to the workers there, several team members are killed in the chambers after the Queen's self defense systems goes "online". When Alice and Kaplan enter the chamber, they disable her main circuit breakers in order to prevent her from rebooting. When mysterious monsters begin emerging in the compound, the mission turns into a fight for survival. After being threatened by the team, the Red Queen is forced to show the team a way out of the Hive; otherwise they would have taken her offline permanently.
The Red Queen isn't heard from again until Alice, Matt, and Rain are the only remaining survivors, trapped in a locked laboratory. She explains if they were to escape the Hive before lockdown (or the Licker gets to them), she would require the life of the second to the last surviving Umbrella commando, Rain, since she is infected with the T-Virus.
Alice pleads with the computer to let them all out, due to the discovery of the Anti-Virus on the train, but the Queen replies negatively, saying "it's a risk I cannot take." When Alice refuses to comply with the Queen's request, she then demands that Alice kills Rain. Alice smashes the computer screen with an axe to silence her, and when the computer is disabled by Chad Kaplan she is destroyed.
[edit] Characters in Apocalypse
[edit] Jill Valentine
- Further information: Jill Valentine#In other media
[edit] Carlos Olivera
[edit] Nicholai Ginovaef
[edit] Dr. Isaacs
Dr. Sam Isaacs is a fictional character whom first appears in Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Isaacs was played by Iain Glen and was named for Jason Isaacs, who was originally considered for the role.
Dr Isaacs is a scientist that was employed by Umbrella. He was involved in the creation of the Nemesis program with Major Timothy Cain, after Dr. Birkin was removed from the project.
He was in charge of a the team of scientists at the Raccoon City Hospital who experimented on Alice. After the Raccoon City incident, he experimented on her further at a secluded Umbrella laboratory and gave her a variety of telekinetic powers. After Alice's escape, Isaacs survived to enact a secret protocol programmed into Alice, putting her under Umbrella's control.
[edit] Timothy Cain
Major Timothy Cain is a fictional character from Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Cain is the commander of Umbrella's military forces. Major Cain was played by Thomas Kretschmann.
Major Cain originally came from Germany and had done an extended tour of duty with the US Army in the Middle East before employed by the Umbrella Corporation. His experiences with war and death had led him to believe that "life was cheap," and so he was known for treating his colleagues and subordinates coldly, all except for his old warbuddy who he hand-picked to lead the U.B.C.S.'s field operatives after his promotion. When the T-Virus escaped from the Hive and spread among the population of Raccoon City, Cain was placed in charge of handling the situation. Cain ordered all of Umbrella's employees and their families to be evacuated, and sealed off Raccoon City by setting up a giant wall around the city. During the crisis, Cain ordered the initiation of the Nemesis program, which he had worked on with Dr. Sam Isaacs.
Cain's undoing came when he earned the scorn of Alice by shooting and killing Dr. Ashford in an attempt to force her to fight Nemesis. After the heroes had freed themselves and took off, Alice pushed him out of the helicopter, and Cain landed badly, twisting a leg. As the zombies closed in on him, Cain shot several of them down with his pistol, but finally realized that resistance was pointless and tried to shoot himself. But as he put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger, he found to his horror that he had no bullets left, and met a horrible end by being eaten by a mob of zombies, the reanimated Ashford being first in line.
[edit] L.J.
Lloyd Jefferson Wayne or L.J. is a fictional character from Resident Evil: Apocalypse, who served as the comic relief in the movie. L.J. was played by Mike Epps.
L.J. is a taxi driver who got arrested during the outbreak of the T-virus in Racoon City for as yet unspecified reasons. Handcuffed next to a zombie prostitute - who had been arrested (as many others) for violently attacking people; the police had no idea of the zombies' true nature - he was saved by Jill Valentine, who simply shot the zombies at the station and released him. Travelling the city in his cadillac, he was distracted by the sight of two zombified erotic dancers, crashed his car, and was saved by a S.T.A.R.S. sniper positioned on the rooftop of an abandoned store from a zombie attack. Joining the S.T.A.R.S. who had holed up in the building, L.J. witnessed the first deployment of Nemesis, who killed the S.T.A.R.S. but left L.J. (as the Nemesis had no instructions concerning him) alive.
Later on, L.J. ran into Jill and Terri Morales and, desperate for living company, joined them in their search for Angela Ashford. At the school, he was attacked by a zombie teacher but saved yet again - this time by Carlos Olivera. He assisted his new friends in their escape from Racoon City as it became the target for a nuclear strike by Umbrella, and later pretended to be an Umbrella agent to rescue Alice.
Mike Epps will return as L.J. in Resident Evil: Extinction.[1]
[edit] Peyton Wells
Peyton Wells (Razaaq Adoti) is a member of the S.T.A.R.S. team. Wells is a very close friend of Jill Valentine. Peyton was the only S.T.A.R.S. member who supported her when she began making claims about monsters living in the Arklay Mountains. During the T-virus outbreak in Raccoon City, Wells assisted members of the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service (U.B.C.S.) and the Raccoon City Police Department (R.P.D.) on the Raven's Gate Bridge in an effort to keep the infected citizens contained within Raccoon City. When discovering that the infection had reached the gate, Major Timothy Cain ordered the gates to be closed. Peyton was attacked by a zombie, who bit him on the leg. After surviving an encounter with Lickers in a church, Wells joined Valentine, Alice and Terri Morales in a mission to find Angela Ashford for her father, but he was shot down by Nemesis. He was later reanimated by the T-Virus; attacking Jill and Terri, he was shot in the head by Valentine.
The resemblences between Petyon Wells and Kenneth J. Sullivan is uncanny.
[edit] Terri Morales
Terri Morales is a fictional character from Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Terri is the meteorologist for Raccoon City's Channel 7. The character was performed by Sandrine Holt.
Terri Morales was (according to deleted scenes) originally an anchor for Raccoon 7. After her position was given to someone else, Terri was reassigned to the meteorology department. She viewed this as a slap in the face. According to Sony's Apocalypse website, Terri was about to be approached by the Umbrella corporation for a position in their public relations department at the time of the Raccoon City outbreak. In the novel adaptation, it was explained that she exposed a politician's crookedness without any sources to back up her claim, to which she had been busted down to weatherwoman.
During the viral outbreaks in the city, Terri video taped the events as they emerged. While attempting to pass through scanners at Raven's Gate Bridge, the infection began spreading amongst civilians. Major Timothy Cain ordered the gates be sealed and citizens to return to their homes. Terri recorded several Umbrella commandos firing into a crowd of innocent civilians on Cain's orders. Terri later on tagged along with S.T.A.R.S. members Jill Valentine and Peyton Wells. When hiding out in the church, Terri began interviewing Jill regarding her thoughts of Umbrella's response to the outbreak. Terri revealed her hopes of possibly wining an emmy for the video tape.
Afterwards, Terri was involved in the rescue of Angela Ashford. While searching Angela's school, Terri came upon a kneeling individual whom she initially thought was Angela. After learning to her shock that it wasn't Angela, but an undead school girl, Terri was overun and eaten alive by a mob of zombie children, with her own video camera capturing her final moments (mirroring the deaths of Joseph Frost and Kenneth Sullivan in Resident Evil).
Terri's video will play a critical role in Resident Evil: Extinction, with the investigation conducted by the U.S. Government on Umbrella's actions.
[edit] Yuri Loginova
Yuri Loginova, Юрий Логинов, is a fictional character from Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Yuri is a U.B.C.S. member who was in the same squad as Carlos Olivera. Yuri was played by Stefan Hayes.
Yuri is also another Russian member of the U.B.C.S. who was also in the same unit as Carlos Olivera and Nicholai. Along with them, he was the only member of their squad to survive the initial skirmish with the zombies in the streets of Raccoon City. Yuri was bitten by an infected man during the siege. Although his team mates helped him to the Raccoon City Hospital, he died and was reanimated, biting Carlos in the arm. Yuri was shot by Nicholai moments later.
[edit] Angela Ashford
Angela "Angie" Ashford is a fictional character from the film Resident Evil: Apocalypse. She is the daughter of the T-Virus creator, Dr. Charles Ashford. Angela Ashford is played by Sophie Vavasseur . She is not based on any existing character from the games, but draws her surname from the Ashford family that played a prominent role in the plot of Resident Evil Code: Veronica
Angela has the same medical condition as her father, which would have resulted in spending the remainder of her life confined to a wheelchair. This is prevented, though, with the creation of the T-virus, which in most human beings would cause uncontrollable mutation. The reproduction of dead cells that the T-virus causes is enough to allow Angela to walk, if kept in check with regular injections of an anti-virus.
In Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Angela is pulled out of her school during the viral outbreak in Raccoon City. Due to her father's high position within the Umbrella Corporation, Umbrella employees evacuate Angela and attempt to get her out of the city before infection spreads. The Umbrella SUV that she is in crashes before reaching the exit from the city, trapping her inside the city and forcing Dr. Ashford to find another way to retrieve her from the city before all evidence of the viral outbreak is destroyed with a nuclear weapon. Angela survives the crash and hides within her junior high school.
Her location is soon found by her father, Dr. Ashford, with a personal locator, who then proceeds to find other survivors in order to make a deal with them. Dr. Ashford, soon finds the few remaining survivors, including: Alice a former Umbrella employee who was experimented on with the T-virus (resulting in super human strength, skills and agility), Jill Valentine a star member of the Raccoon Police Department's elite service called Special Tactics and Rescue Squad or S.T.A.R.S., before being suspended, and Carlos Oliveira a former Umbrella Employee of the U.B.C.S. before being left inside the city without evacuation. He explains that at sunrise Umbrella will detonate a nuclear device, covering the infection and killing everyone caught in it, and he is capable of getting them out, but only if they retrieve Angela and bring her to him safely.
Angela is eventually saved and reunited with Dr. Ashford for a few moments before he is shot and killed by Major Timothy Cain. Angela leaves the city on a Umbrella helicopter, along with Alice, Jill, Carlos and L.J.. She is almost impaled by a metal shard that had detached from the helicopter's gun rack when the explosion of the nuclear weapon occurred, but is saved when Alice moves in front of the shard of metal, killing herself instead of Angela. She last appears in Apocalypse when Jill, Carlos and L.J. pose as covert Umbrella operatives in order to rescue, the now revived, Alice from Umbrella labs. As they leave, Angela asks her, "Are you ok?" but Alice ignores her completely. Alice's eyes then flash an Umbrella logo as they drive off.
In the third movie of Resident Evil she is no longer featured; it has not been confirmed if she has died or is simply not travelling with the group of survivors anymore but rather alongside Jill.
[edit] Dr. Charles Ashford
Dr. Charles Ashford is a fictional character from Resident Evil: Apocalypse, portrayed by Jared Harris.
Charles is a wheelchair-bound scientist employed by the Umbrella Corporation and the father of Angela Ashford whom the holographic representation of the Red Queen is modeled after.
In Apocalypse, Dr. Ashford was responsible for the creation of the t-virus, which could revive dead or dying cells, and although he created it for medical purposes, Umbrella took away the virus and perverted it by creating other viral agents. Before Umbrella took away his creation, Dr. Ashford managed to use the base T-Cells to cure his crippled daughter Angela. Charles was also responsible for the construction of the Hive and was the programmer for the Red Queen, whose holographic representation he modeled after Angela.
During the outbreak at Raccoon City, Dr. Ashford was among the many valuable employees whom Umbrella had evacuated before quarantining the city. His daughter was to be evacuated, but was involved in a car crash and never got out in time. Certain that his daughter was still alive, Ashford went behind Major Cain's back (who was firm in his belief that Angela was in fact dead) and contacted numerous survivors, including Alice, Jill Valentine and Carlos Olivera, and agreed to help them escape the city in return for rescuing his daughter. Although they succeeded, Major Timothy Cain intervened in Dr. Ashford's plan, all just to pit Alice against Nemesis. Ashford was briefly reunited with his daughter before Cain shot him in order to force Alice to fight. Ashford later came back as a zombie and was among those who swarmed the injured Cain.
[edit] Captain Henderson
Captain Ryan Henderson is the captain of S.T.A.R.S. He earned the scorn of Jill Valentine when refusing to support her outlandish claims about monsters living in the Arklay Mountains. Thus, when Henderson asked for Jill's help during the siege of Raccoon City by zombies, she turned him down. Henderson was among the many S.T.A.R.S members killed inside of the Mostly Colt gun store by Nemesis. Captain Henderson was played by Dave Nichols.
[edit] Mackenzie
Angus Mackenzie is a citizen of Raccoon City who survived the initial outbreak of the t-virus. He sought refuge in the church after escaping zombies at the office building where he worked. Armed with a large pistol, Mackenzie tried to force Jill Valentine, Peyton Wells and Terri Morales away from the church, claiming it was his. When the church was swarmed with Lickers, Mackenzie panicked and was separated from the others. He was later killed when a Licker attacked him inside the church. In the novelization of the film, his last name is spelled differently (McKenzie), he was also a telemarketer who was married to a woman named Flora. Mackenzie was played by Geoffrey Pounsett.
