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    Tommy Ross 

Thomas "Tommy" Everett Ross

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2002
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2013

Played by:
William Katt (1976 version)
Tobias Mehler (2002 version)
Ansel Elgort (2013 version)

The Prince Charming of his school, Tommy is one of the stars of the school's baseball team and the boyfriend of Sue, and their relationship has recently become more intimate. After taking part in Carrie's humiliation in the shower, Sue, feeling sorry for what she did, asks Tommy to take Carrie to the prom in order to make up for it, to which Tommy reluctantly agrees.


  • Academic Athlete: In the novel, he's a straight-A student and a talented amateur writer who has had his poems published in several journals, and wants to get a university degree before pursuing a career in professional baseball.
  • The Ace: In the novel, Tommy is kind, sweet, sincere, intelligent, and a respected athlete.
  • Adaptational Dumbass: Tommy in the book is a straight-A student and a talented amateur writer. However, the first two film adaptations make him far less intelligent.
  • Becoming the Mask: The 1976 film strongly implies that he falls in love with Carrie for real, despite just taking her to the prom as a favor for Sue.
  • Blue Is Heroic: He wears a blue shirt throughout the films and is a Lovable Jock.
  • Brainless Beauty: Both film adaptations retain his niceness, but turn him into this for no readily apparent reason. Rather, the 2013 version doesn't mention his grades, but he does seem sincere when he compliments Carrie's poem.
  • Convicted by Public Opinion: In the book, he and Sue are scapegoated for the incident.
  • Deadpan Snarker: He can be pretty dry at times. Especially at Mr. Fromm.
  • Died in Your Arms Tonight: In Carrie's arms in the '13 version.
  • Hero with Bad Publicity: A sad posthumous example: despite being one of the few people who went out of his way to help Carrie, he ends up getting the blame for the massacre.
  • Kick the Dog: It's not in the final product, but the script for the 1976 version has a scene where Sue admits she feels really guilty about helping terrorize and humiliate Carrie in the shower scene. Tommy actually says she was asking for it, because she wears weird clothes and once said grace in the cafeteria. Considering he's meant to be a Nice Guy, excising this scene was a very good call on the creator's part.
  • Killed Off for Real: Very likely. Either by fractured skull or burned to death in his unconsciousness. The book makes it clear that he broke his neck and died instantly.
  • Lovable Jock: In addition to being a star athlete, he's also a very good-hearted, likable person, and one of the few people who stands up for Carrie, though he is reluctant to take her to the prom. It's also mentioned in the Scrapbook Story that none of his surviving classmates had anything bad to say about him, which, considering that most of the survivors were social outcasts who hadn't been invited to the prom, suggests that he was the opposite of the "jerk jock" stereotype.
  • Nice Guy: Sue calls him this, and he proves it by being kind and polite to Carrie before and during their night together.
  • Only Sane Man: He seems to be this at the prom. Too bad he gets knocked out before the disaster occurs.
    • In the 1976 film version he has just enough time to look up and see the knocked down bucket, thereby piecing two and two together, and is clearly outraged at the prank towards Carrie as he angrily mouths "What the hell?" to the students while pointing upwards at the bucket. Had he not been knocked unconscious immediately afterwards, he very likely would have been able to calm Carrie down and defuse the situation.
    • Similar in the 2002 version, he angrily throws his crown to the floor.
    • In the 2013 version he yells "What the hell!" to the students after the prank occurs, looking very pissed off.
  • The Scapegoat: As shown by the book's Scrapbook Story, he's treated like a Jerk Jock afterwards (along with Sue, who gets retconned into an Alpha Bitch) so that the people investigating the incident can have an easy scapegoat.
  • Tap on the Head: Rare justified example. In all versions, he's thrown into deep unconsciousness by being hit once on the head...but it was by a heavy metal bucket, and it's implied to kill (or at least seriously injure) him. The book is more explicit about this, and he is killed instantly.
  • Token Good Teammate: Along with Sue, he serves as one of the students who sympathizes with Carrie.
  • Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Tommy is just plain nice. Even Sue agrees he's justified in giving her a What the Hell, Hero? about bullying Carrie, he agrees to take her to the prom, and he falls in love with her. Maybe.
  • Two First Names: His last name is often used as a given name.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Of course by inviting Carrie to prom, but emphasized in the book as he voted for them for Prom King and Queen, and they win by one vote.

    Freddy "The Beak" Holt 
Played by
Doug Cox (1976 version)
Connor Price (2013 version)

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Freddy Holt (2013)
The school photographer.
  • Adaptational Attractiveness: He doesn't have a large nose in the films.
  • Adaptational Name Change: The prom ballot for the 1976 film calls him Frank Green. The 2013 film also doesn't mention his nickname.
  • Camera Fiend: In the films, to an extent although it is his job.
  • Gag Nose: Has one in the book, which is where his nickname comes from.
    "He weighed perhaps one hundred pounds soaking wet, and the casual observer might be tempted to believe that sixty of it was nose."
  • Heroic BSoD: In the 2013 film he just stands there, stunned and continuing to film the prom throughout Carrie's rampage, which (given her earlier experiences with being filmed) causes her to target him.
  • Nerd Glasses: Has some nebbish glasses in the 1976 film.
  • Nice Guy: He's friends with Tommy in the 1976 film (and also seems to be no friend of Chris and her gang, throwing a paper ball at Norma in one classroom scene), while the 2013 film has him showing Carrie some kindness well before the prom, helping her learn to use a computer.
  • Uncertain Doom: He's last seen being knocked down as the gym burns in the 1976 version.

    George Dawson 
Played by:
Harry Gold (1976 version)
Demetrius Joyette (2013 version)

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A student at the prom who compliments Carrie.


  • Ascended Extra: Only really appears briefly, during the prom, in the book but is a recurring character throughout both films he appears in, as a friend of Tommy.
  • Badass Bystander: Tries to drag Tommy to safety during the 1976 film and stays in the gym for a while helping others get out in the 2013 film.
  • Composite Character: With Helen's boyfriend Roy in the 2002 film.
  • Forced to Watch: Well not forced but he does get an up-close and horrifying view of Tina being set on fire with electrical wires in the 2013 film.
  • Nice Guy: In the book and both films where he appears he's nice to Carrie during the prom and happy for her victory, with the films also showing him being disgusted by the prank and trying to help others during the chaos of Carrie unleashing her powers.
  • Race Lift: He's black in the 2013 film, while he was white in the first film, and his ethnicity went unmentioned in the book.
  • Spared By Adaptation: The novel has him and his date compliment Carrie, and then mentions that in a few hours both of them were dead, while he survives the 2013 film (or at least the theatrical cut) and receives an Uncertain Doom treatment in the 1976 one.
  • Token Minority Couple: With Erika Gogan in the 2013 film.

    Frieda Jason 

Frieda Jason

Played by: Noelle North (1976)
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A student who interacts with Carrie at the prom.
  • Ambiguously Bi: Offers to dance with Carrie if their dates "self-destruct" although she might have just been joking or saying it to comfort Carrie.
  • Composite Character: She has Helen Shyres' role as Sue's friend who talks to her a few times (including while decorating the gym) in the original book. In the remaining films, she's Adapted Out as her role is added to Helen Shyres or Erika Grogan's character.
  • Dude, Not Funny!: When Carrie gets covered in blood in the 1976 movie, Norma immediately starts laughing vilely, and tries to get Frieda to join in. To her credit, Frieda doesn't, and instead just looks absolutely appalled by the whole thing.
  • Heroic Bystander: One of the students who tries to help Tommy.
  • Jaw Drop: Her mouth falls open in shock and horror as she takes in the prank.
  • Nice Girl: One of the only ones to legitimately compliment Carrie in the book.
  • Token Good Teammate: She is one of the few female students who isn't a nasty bitch. While Sue Snell was initially involved in the locker room incident, Frieda wasn't — presumably being in a different gym class.
  • Uncertain Doom: Like the rest of the kids who try to help Tommy, her fate is left unclear.

    Roy Evarts 

Roy Evarts

Played by: Steve Beyers (2002 version)
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Helen Shyres' prom date.
  • Ascended Extra: His name only briefly appears on a prom ballot in the original novel but he's combined with George Dawson for the 2002 film.
  • Heroic Bystander: Assists in trying to carry Tommy to safety for a while.
  • High-Voltage Death: Like Helen, he's electrocuted and probably killed when the scoreboard falls onto the floor after it's soaked with water.
  • Holding Hands: He does this with Helen as they run through the gym.
  • Nice Guy: Treats Carrie decently at the prom and is a good friend to Tommy.
  • Satellite Character: Shares all of his scenes with Tommy or Helen and doesn't get too much personality.

Staff

    Rita Desjardin 

The Gym Teacher (Rita Desjardin / Miss Collins / Miss Gardiner)

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2013

Played by:
Betty Buckley (1976 version)
Rena Sofer (2002 version)
Judy Greer (2013 version)

Rita L. Desjardin is the gym teacher at the high school, who feels a mix of pity and annoyance at Carrie for her social awkwardness. After Carrie is humiliated in the showers, Rita is quick to punish those responsible with a week's detention, with her, after school, with failure to show up leading to one being barred from the prom.

In the 1976 film, her name was changed to Miss Collins, while in the Broadway adaptation, she became Miss Gardiner. Both remakes kept the name she had in the books, but the 2002 version changed the spelling to "Desjarden".


  • Adaptational Nationality: The 1976 film changes her ethnicity from Frenchnote  to Irish, while the Broadway adaptation makes her English.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: In the book, while she did feel bad for Carrie, she was also genuinely exasperated with dealing with her and even laughed at the pig blood prank. All movie adaptations remove these parts, portraying her as being genuinely supportive of Carrie from the start.
  • Adaptation Name Change: In the 1976 version and in the musical. The 2002 version changed one letter of her surname (Desjarden).
  • Air-Vent Passageway: She and some students use this in the '02 version to escape the burning gym.
  • The Atoner: In the book, this is why she retires from teaching after the prom.
  • Blue Is Heroic: She wears blue in the '76 film and is the only adult who is nice to Carrie.
  • Composite Character: The musical combined her with the principal.
  • Cool Teacher
    • Deconstructed. She's much nicer than the other sadists of Chamberlain and helps Carrie, but she admits that she was cruel to Carrie and was more like Chris and her mean girls than she liked to admit. The films play it straight by making her nicer.
    • The 2002 film version invokes this to lull Chris and her Girl Posse into a false sense of security. She offers to let them out of softball to decorate their prom dresses so that they will be caught completely off-guard when she sends a duffle bag-full of tampons flying at them and reads them the riot act for the shower incident.
  • Deadpan Snarker: She is pretty dry, mainly towards Chris.
    Miss Collins: I guess you can take your pick, Chris. Who's the lucky guy?
    Chris: Billy Nolan.
    Miss Collins: Who?
    Chris: Billy Nolan.
    Miss Collins: I'm sorry, can't hear you, could you speak up?
    Chris: Billy Nolan!
    Miss Collins: Well, isn't he the lucky one?
  • Death by Adaptation: In the '76 and Musical versions.
  • First Period Panic: Averted in the book, where she recounted her excitement at the age of 11 when she got her first period. Played straight in the '02 film where she recounted getting her first period at the age of 10 and becoming mortified as a result, due to her wearing white pants at the time.
  • Half the Man He Used to Be: How she met her end in the '76 version, where she gets crushed at the waist by a falling basketball backboard.
  • Hot Teacher: Particularly in the '02 version.
  • It's All My Fault: In the novel, she blames herself for not doing more to help Carrie, and quits teaching for good.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: In the book, she enjoys slapping Carrie and is secretly annoyed at having to deal with her problems, but she does recognize how bad the bullying is and sees to it that the girls are punished for it. But when the prank is pulled at the prom, she can't help laughing along with everyone else. She does admit afterwards that she should have done more to help, and resigns out of guilt.
  • Lesbian Jock: Betty Buckley has said that she played her as one in the '76 version. However, instead of being a Butch Lesbian like many versions of this trope, she has a very feminine appearance, and the bulk of her interaction with Carrie is complimenting her looks and giving her beauty tips. She also mentions having taken a date to her own prom, although this doesn't rule out her being bisexual and/or closeted — she most likely would have attended her prom in The '60s, before the gay rights movement lifted most of the taboos surrounding homosexuality. There’s also the possibility that they just went as friends, and she may have had no intention of pursuing anything romantic with the guy.
  • Like a Son to Me: The 1976 version seems to view Carrie as almost like her own daugher.
  • Naïve Newcomer: In the book, she's only been teaching for a year, and is unprepared for some of the issues that might arise as a result.
  • Only Sane Woman: Seems to be this in the faculty, as she's the only one to understand how badly Carrie was bullied and to punish the girls for their bullying.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: She and the principal are the only adults that provide any help to Carrie (banning Chris from prom only made things worse in the end, but they couldn't have possibly known what would happen at the time), and she gives Carrie some true compassion and respect that she clearly needs. On the other hand, she's quick to jump to conclusions about Sue and refuses to believe that Sue really doesn't mean any harm to Carrie (which has some justification, given that Sue is part of Chris's Girl Posse and initially joined the other girls in throwing tampons at Carrie in the bathroom)
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She gives the girls one hell of a verbal lashing after the shower incident in the 2002 version.
    Miss Desjardin: I want you all to know what you did on Friday was a really nasty thing. Did you stop to think that Carrie White might have feelings? Do any of you ever stop to think?! Sue? Helen? Tina? Oh, you think she's ugly, don't you? Well, you're ugly. I saw just how ugly all of you are Friday morning!
  • Resigned in Disgrace: Blaming herself for Carrie's breakdown and the massacre that ensued, she resigns from her post.
  • She Cleans Up Nicely: In the book the narration notes that she looks young enough to be attending the prom rather than chaperoning.
  • Stern Teacher: She doesn't hesitate to give her class a week of boot-camp detention and threaten them with expulsion from the prom as punishment for humiliating Carrie. However, she drops this attitude when she's with Carrie, treating her with the respect that nobody (save for Sue and Tommy) gives her.
  • Talk to the Fist: In the 1976 version she slaps Chris right in the face when Chris won't stop whining about detention and unwisely starts to insult her.
  • This Is My Name on Foreign: Desjardin = of the garden in French. So a surname close to "gardener" in theater makes sense.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
    • In the '76 version, when Sue attempts to stop the prank against Carrie, Miss Collins forcibly removes her from the prom, operating under the mistaken belief that she intends to ruin Carrie's coronation. (It's also because of a previously mentioned rule that students are forbidden to be at prom without a date). This allows the event that triggers Carrie's Roaring Rampage of Revenge to occur.
    • Also, it was her speech that made Sue feel guilty about what happened to Carrie in the first place, which prompted Sue to ask Tommy to take Carrie to the prom. If she hadn't chewed them out, Carrie wouldn't have been in a position to be pranked by Chris.
    Mr. Morton 

Mr. Morton

Played By:
Stefan Gierasch (1976 version)
Laurie Murdoch (2002 version)
Barry Shabaka Henley (2013 version)

The authority figure of Ewen High who responds to Carrie's bullying. In the book he's the Vice-Principal but in all three films he's combined with Principal Grayle.


  • Accidental Misnaming: He accidentally calls Carrie "Cassie" (which infuriates her) in all four versions. According to the book, he does this to lots of kids, and not just her though.
  • Adaptational Wimp: In the book, he refuses to be intimidated by Mr. Hargensen, telling him to his face that taking the school to court won't go well for him. In the 2013 movie, he would've caved to him if it weren't for Ms. Desjardins.
  • Badass Bureaucrat: Standing up to Mr. Hargensen in the book and the '02 film while threatening to bring out a lot of evidence of Chris's bullying and other offenses if they go to court. The '02 version really sells this by having him sit back in his chair, smile and take a sip from his coffee thermos, as if this was all in a days work, once Hargensen backs down.
  • Composite Character: He's combined with Principal Grayle in all three films.
  • Crazy-Prepared: By having a file of every incident Chris has ever pulled at the school ready to present
  • Death by Adaptation: He's electrocuted in the first two films and suffers from Uncertain Doom in the '13 one when he gets knocked over and possibly trampled while in the book he didn't even attend the prom, and Principal Grayle (who did) escaped along with Miss Desjardins.
  • Dork in a Sweater: He wears a sweater in his office in the 2002 film and comes off as a bit absent-minded and detached from the running of the school. At least until Chris gets her detentions and John Hargensen shows up to bully him, at which point his response makes him a lot easier to take seriously.
  • Everyone Has Standards: He is horrified by the prank on Carrie, even in the 1976 version (where he hadn't been shown backing up Mrs. Collins or doing anything personally to punish Chris).
  • Extreme Doormat: In the 2013 film, he's an Adaptational Wimp who doesn't do a good job disciplining Chris or standing up to her father and would have caved in without Ms. Desjardins. His reaction to the prom prank and the disaster breaking out also leaves something to be desired.
  • Gut Feeling: In the book Principal Grayle and Morton discuss Grayle having one of these, and the two do worry that Chris is plotting something for the prom, but don't know what it is, or how to stop her.
  • Head-in-the-Sand Management: In the third film, and arguably the first one as well he's detached from the student body and tries to ignore problems rather than confronting them.
  • Mr. Exposition: He tells Ms. Desjardins a lot about the school and the students in the book, where she is a new teacher.
  • Race Lift: He is white in the first two films but black in the third one.
  • Resigned in Disgrace: In the book, he resigns in the wake of the massacre at the prom, believing that he could have done something if only he'd had more foresight.
  • Undying Loyalty: In the book Morton tells Principal Grayle that if Chris's father gets him fired then he'll quit.
  • What You Are in the Dark: He goes to a lot of trouble to stand up the influential John Hargensen to protect Carrie and ensure Chris gets punished when almost no one else at the school has any idea this is going on.

    Mr. Fromm/Mr. Ullman 
Played by:
Sydney Lassick (1976 version)
Jefferson Brown (2013 version)

An English teacher who insults Carrie, and later chaperones for the prom.


  • Adaptational Attractiveness: Younger and fitter in the '13 film.
  • Adaptation Name Change: To Mr. Ullman, in the '13 film.
  • Asshole Victim:
    • He gets electrocuted during the Prom in the 1976 version when the fire hose sprays a mic he's talking into.
    • He also gets a High-Voltage Death in the 2013 film, in the higher quality version he can be seen being electrocuted in the corner as Carrie leaves the gym.
  • Canon Foreigner: One of the only prominent characters without a book counterpart.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Is solemn and horrified by the prank in the '76 film.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He's cruel towards Carrie after she likes Tommy's poem in the '76 film, and after she read her own poem in the '13 one. In the lattermost version, Ullman also smiles and claps for Carrie when she's crowned, a huge change from when he’s introduced humiliating her in front of her English class to score points with Tina, then after Tina displays the locker room video of Carrie being pelted with tampons, he’s seen in the crowd covering his mouth to hide his laughter, proving he truly is nothing but a Manchild bully at heart.
  • Sadist Teacher: Particularly in the '13 version with his mockery of Carrie.
  • Teacher/Student Romance: With Tina in the '13 version, it likely contributes to his singling Carrie out.

Other Citizens

    John Hargensen 

John Hargensen

Played by:
Michael Kopsa (2002 film)
Hart Bochner (2013 film)

Chris's father. He is a rich lawyer who has spoiled Chris rotten, and ignores everything she's done. When Chris is banned from the prom, he confronts Principal Grayle and threatens to sue the school over it.


  • Adaptation Personality Change: In the book and 2002 film, he intends to sue the school fully aware of everything Chris has done. In the 2013 film, he seems to believe she didn't do anything at first, and seems angry when it's revealed that Chris has a video of the shower incident.
  • Adapted Out: Does not appear in the 1976 film.
  • Amoral Attorney: We don't actually see him in court, but he is the town's "leading legal light" and he is definitely amoral. He's raised his daughter to be a sadistic bully, doesn't care who she hurts, and tries to sue the school district for banning her from prom.
  • Blatant Lies: He feels the need to assure Principal Grayle that he's not vindictive, and doesn't want any "unpleasantness." This is not supported by anything else he does.
  • Frivolous Lawsuit: He threatens to sue the school and get Ms. Desjardin and Principal Grayle fired, because his daughter was banned from prom. He backs down when he learns that they will counter-sue him for Chris's record of infractions.
  • Generation Xerox: One can easily imagine him acting exactly the same as Chris when he was her age.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: He has no impact on the plot, but he's clearly the main reason Chris turned out as bad as she did.
  • Hate Sink: In the book and 2002 adaptation. He's only in one scene, but is clearly meant to be disgusting to the reader, and it's extremely satisfying when the principal puts him in his place.
  • It's All About Me: His daughter's caught at a drug bust? She's putting his reputation at risk. He seems to view Chris more as an extension of himself than anything else.
  • Karma Houdini: Downplayed. He isn't shown suffering any consequences for his actions, and his fate after Carrie's rampage is unknown. Of course, since the town's been wrecked, his career as a lawyer is probably shot, and he's just lost his daughter, so he probably won't be feeling too good...
  • Papa Wolf: Well, his daughter might be a complete sociopath, but he does fight back when he believes she's been mistreated.
  • Parental Obliviousness: He clearly has no idea what Chris gets up to. And when the school brings it to his attention, he doesn't care. It's also said that he's never met the principal before despite the school holding regular parent-teacher conferences, indicating he hasn't bothered to attend any.
  • Precision F-Strike: Downplayed but when Chris refuses to show the principal her phone, he lowers his voice and says "show them the damn phone".
  • Smug Snake: His description alone pegs him as this before he even opens his mouth.
  • The Sociopath: He shows many traits of a high-functioning, non-criminal sociopath. He's said to be good at charming others, takes clear pleasure in intimidating the principal, is willing to ruin the career of anyone who crosses him, and has no empathy for anyone Chris has hurt. Downplayed in the 2013 version, where he is portrayed as more oblivious than uncaring.
  • Uncertain Doom: We never find out if he was killed during Carrie's rampage through Chamberlain.

    Estelle Horan 
Played by:
Tina Romanus (1976 version)
Michaela Mann (2002 version)
Vanessa Smythe (2013 version)

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Carrie's neighbor, who witnesses the first display of her powers, several years before the Black Prom.


  • Adaptation Personality Change: In the 2002 film, she's a lot more mouthy towards Margaret, saying "suck it, you cow" when Margaret calls her a whore.
  • Fanservice Pack: After Margaret complains about Estelle sunbathing in a modest one-piece, her mother goes out and buys her a bikini to taunt Mrs White even further. Estelle obliges, remarking that she "felt like the Whore of Babylon myself".
  • Hypocrisy Nod: When Carrie mentions Margaret's belief that only bad girls have breasts, Estelle is quick to point out that Margaret isn't exactly suffering from A-Cup Angst herself (and indeed Margaret does consider herself Defiled Forever due to Carrie's conception).
  • Intergenerational Friendship: When she was a teenager and Carrie was a little girl, they got along, something Maragret disapproved of (with a fair amount of Slut-Shaming comments at Estelle).
  • Intro-Only Point of View: She describes Carrie's first psychic manifestation but moves away from town several years before the Black Prom and is uninvolved in the main storyline.
  • It's All My Fault: Expresses guilt at the concern that her accidental instigation of Margaret triggering Carrie's powers might have caused all of the harm that came from them.
  • Like Parent, Like Child: The book mentions that her children are members of the California Sun 'n Fun Crowd.
  • Nice Girl: Chats friendlily with Carrie, not seeming to mind when Carrie parrots a bit of Margaret's judgmental attitude at her and (in the book and a deleted scene from the 2013 film) shows sympathy for her even after the Black Prom.
  • Shameless Fanservice Girl: Introduced sunbathing in her back yard. In the book it's implied that her mother encouraged her to do this in order to annoy Margaret.
  • Shoulders-Up Nudity: In the 2002 film.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Despite only appearing once to give testimony, she's able to confirm that Carrie has powers by revealing the rain of stones on the White house happened when Margaret was disciplining her.
    Amelia Jenks 

Amelia Jenks

A young mother who writes a letter to her sister about her 2-year-old daughter's telekinetic abilities.


  • Adapted Out: She hasn't appeared in any of the film adaptations thus far.
  • Alliterative Family: Amelia and her daughter, Annie.
  • Distant Finale: The events of the book take place in 1979, while Amelia's letter is dated to 1988.
  • Foil: Unlike the insane, abusive fundamentalist Margaret White, Amelia is a young, mentally stable, and loving mother who only wants the best for her daughter, powers or no powers.
  • Good Parents: She loves Annie very much and writes in her letter about how she's "awful pretty & her eyes are as brite as buttons. I bet she'll be a worldbeeter someday." Her primary concern about Annie's powers is that her daughter might suffer from heart problems like Amelia's grandmother did, unlike Margaret who immediately branded Carrie a witch for having the same power.
  • In-Series Nickname: She calls herself "Melia", which is presumably also what her family calls her.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: She doesn't appear to be aware of the Black Prom incident that happened in Chamberlain, even though it happened in 1979 and her letter is written in 1988, which suggests that she might live in an isolated or rural area, something supported by her poor spelling which may suggest a lack of formal education.
  • Noodle Incident: One time when the police came after a male relative of hers named Pete, her grandmother used her powers to make their guns fly out of their hands.

    Annie Jenks 

Annie Jenks

A young girl who is displaying the same telekinetic powers as Carrie.


  • Adapted Out: Like her mother, she hasn't appeared in any of the film adaptations.
  • Alliterative Family: Annie and her mother, Amelia.
  • Early Personality Signs: Her mother first becomes aware that Annie has powers when she sees her making her brother's marbles move around all by themselves.
  • "Ray of Hope" Ending: The events in Chamberlain that led up to Carrie's rampage resulted in a full blown Downer Ending, but Amelia being a loving mother to her daughter who has the same powers suggests that Annie will have a better and happier life than Carrie did.
  • Reincarnation: It's implied Annie might be Carrie reincarnated, as they have the same psychic powers. Notably, Annie has blond hair that her mother notes will probably turn mousy brown as she gets older, which is a trait that Carrie also had.
  • Superpowerful Genetics: She inherited telekinetic ability from her great-grandmother on her mother's side. Apparently, the TK gene always skips two generations.

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