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| Julie James | |
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| I Know What You Did Last Summer character | |
| First appearance | I Know What You Did Last Summer |
| Last appearance | I Still Know What You Did Last Summer |
| Portrayed by | Jennifer Love Hewitt |
| Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Spouse(s) | Ray Bronson (1999-) |
Julie James is one of the main characters of the I Know What You Did Last Summer series. She appeared in I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. She was the only one who disagreed about dumping Ben's body and felt the guiltiest about the accident. She is Ben Willis' main target. She survives the events of the first film. In the second film, Ben had set-up her, Karla and Tyrell, with the help of his son, Will. She again survives Ben's attack and kills him by shooting him many times. She and Ray got married a year after the Bahamas attack. In the end of the second film, she is hooked by Ben Willis (who is under the bed) and dragged under the bed. It's revealed in the next film that Willis came back from the grave as an undead being, and that is how he is able to come back for Julie after being shot. It is unknown if she was killed or survived. In the film I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, there is an article stating that four teens were murdered at the Bahamas, possibly referring to Julie, Ray, Ty, and Karla. This remains unconfirmed, however. Rumors say that Julie is still alive and she must've been injured after she was attacked.
In the novel, Julie was a fun-loving cheerleader prior to the accident. Of all the teens involved, she feels the guiltiest, and has always regretted not going back to help the victim of their hit-and-run, a child named Daniel Gregg, as opposed to the fisherman in the film. After the accident, she breaks up with Ray, quits cheerleading and devotes herself to studying hard, in the hopes of both forgetting the horror of the accident, and being accepted to an out of state university to escape the tragedy. In the first chapter of the novel, she receives correspondance that she has been accepted to Smith University. She lives with her widowed mother, and dates a man named Bud Wilson, later revealed to be the elder half-brother of Daniel Gregg. After Bud reveals his identity, he tries to strangle her. Julie survives after Ray knocks Bud out.
Friends: Helen Shivers (best, died in 1997), Karla Wilson (best), Barry Cox (died in 1997), Tyrell (died in 1998), Max Neurick (died in 1997), Melissa "Missy" Egan (bit).
| Helen Shivers | |
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| I Know What You Did Last Summer character | |
| Sarah Michelle Gellar by David Shankbone.jpg | |
| First appearance | I Know What You Did Last Summer |
| Portrayed by | Sarah Michelle Gellar |
| Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Family | Elsa Rivers (sister; deceased in 1997) |
Helen Rivers is one of the main characters of the I Know What You Did Last Summer series. She appeared in I Know What You Did Last Summer and as picture in the sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, where she is renamed Helen Shivers. She was one of the teens who agreed to dump Ben's body. At first, she disagrees of dumping the remains, but later agrees because she is afraid of losing her trip to New York. She was proclaimed a Croaker Queen prior to the accident. She was one of Julie's best friends and was Barry's ex-girlfriend. One year after the incident, Helen's trip to New York failed, thus she had no choice but to work for her sister's department store. She was threatened by Ben when she was sleeping and he shorns her hair and writes soon on the mirror (referring he will soon get his revenge). Even after being threatened, she still participates in the Croaker Parade, where she sees the fisherman threatening her with his hook. At the pageant, while a contestant is singing, she sees the fisherman attack and murder Barry. She screams and tries to get help, but no one believes her. Later she is escorted by a policeman. Then the fisherman lures the policeman in an alley and kills him. Then Helen Escapes and runs to where Elsa is working then while locking a door the fisherman attacks Elsa and kills her by slashing her throat. When Helen hears her scream she goes to investigate and is attacked by the fisherman and escapes by jumping through the window into a dumpster. Then she runs and is pushed into a pile of tires. She is then killed by the hook but no one could hear her screams because of the parade. Later on Julie finds her body in a pile of ice.
In the novel, Helen is a very beautiful young woman, and a television personality, who lives a life of luxury in the Four Seasons apartments. Despite her beauty and success, she is often insecure and worries about losing what she has worked for. She is more than a little dependant on Barry, and is unaware that he simply uses her as a show piece and to brag about having a girlfriend who works on television. Helen is convinced that Barry loves her and believes he will one day marry her, despite him never telling her he loves her, and showing no interest in wanting to settle down. She comes from a large, and financially struggling family, and suffers verbal abuse from her bitter older sister, Elsa. Unlike the film, Helen does not die. Collingsworth Wilson chases her into her bathroom, where she falls from a second storey window, but recovers.
Friends: Julie James(best), Ray Bronson, Melissa "Missy" Egan(bit), Max Neurick(bit)- died; 1997,Barry Cox (Ex-boyfriend;Deceased in 1997)
| Ray Bronson | |
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| I Know What You Did Last Summer character | |
| First appearance | I Know What You Did Last Summer |
| Last appearance | I Still Know What You Did Last Summer |
| Portrayed by | Freddie Prinze, Jr. |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Spouse(s) | Julie James (1999-) |
Ray Bronson is one of the main characters of the I Know What You Did Last Summer series. He appeared in I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Ray Bronson is one of the teens who agreed to dump Ben's body, reasoning that he does not have enough money or a family to get him out of the crime. Ben set him up so that Julie and the others would suspect him as the fisherman/killer. A year after the incident, Julie breaks up with him and works as a village fisherman. To get Julie back, Ray went to Missy and told her that he is David's best friend, Billy Blue. When Julie and Helen went to Missy, Missy told them about Billy, making the two suspect that he is the killer and that he is out to avenge David's death. He survives the events of the first film. In the second film, he was about to surprise Julie by giving her an engagement ring, but unfortunately, Ben breaks his plan and attacks him on his way to her, however, he survived Ben's attack and rescued Julie in the island. After the Bahamas attack, Julie and Ray got married. It is unknown if he was killed by Ben before attacking Julie.
In the novel, Ray is Julie's ex-boyfriend; Julie ended their relationship after the hit-and-run accident, and, greif-stricken, Ray dropped out of high school and travelled along the Californian coast, but eventually returns. He is the only son of a former baseball champion who now owns a string of successful sports stores. Ray shows no athletic talents, and feels he has always lived in Barry's shadow, however he matures after the accident and becomes more confident and assertive. After he returns, he along with Julie wants to confess about their involvement in Daniel Gregg's death, but feels obligated to live with a pact the four of them made to take it to their graves. Ray suffers no physical harm in the novel at the hands of Bud Wilson, and saves Julie from being strangled by him.
Friends: Helen Shivers (died in 1997),Karla Wilson (bit),Barry Cox (died in 1997),Max Neuric (bit,died in 1997),Melissa "Missy" Egan (bit).
| Barry William Cox | |
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| I Know What You Did Last Summer character | |
| First appearance | I Know What You Did Last Summer |
| Portrayed by | Ryan Phillippe |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
Barry William Cox is one of the main characters of the I Know What You Did Last Summer series. He appeared in I Know What You Did Last Summer and as a voice in the sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Helen's former boyfriend. He is killed one year later while watching Helen from a top a balcony, where he is repeatedly slashed by Ben's hook, with his body later placed in ice.
In the novel, Barry is an arrogant womanizer, who is dating Helen Rivers, despite feeling no real affection for her. He fears being tied down young, one of the main reasons he wants to end his relationship with Helen, and repeatedly cheats on her with other women. He was a star football player before his high school graduation, and suffers from a worrying, domineering mother who cannot bear the thought of Barry leaving her. Unlike the film, Barry was driving the car which killed the young boy, Daniel Gregg. Barry is shot through the stomach and in the spine a year after the hit and run, but he does not die. He recovers in hospital and recovers from temporary paralysis, gaining the ability to walk again.
Relationships: Helen Shivers (Ex-Girlfriend)
Friends: Ray Bronson, Julie James, Helen Shivers (Ex-Girlfriend,Deceased in 1997)
| Collingsworth Wilson | |
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| I Know What You Did Last Summer character | |
| First appearance | I Know What You Did Last Summer (novel) |
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| Gender | Male |
Collingsworth "Collie" Wilson, also known as "Bud", appears only in the original novel by Lois Duncan. He is a completely different character to Ben Willis. Collingsworth is the antagonist of the novel, seeking revenge for the death of his younger half-brother, Daniel Gregg, who was killed after being run over by Barry Cox in his car, along with Helen, Julie and Ray. After Daniel Gregg's death, the family fell apart; Collie's mother was moved to a rest home after suffering a mental breakdown following the death of her son, her husband moved to live near her, leaving Collie's sister, Megan, alone and struggling to make ends meet. Collie was fighting in the Vietnam war at the time of the accident (in the updated version he is serving in Iraq.) Collie was "messed up" during the war, although he does not clarify exactly how, and came home to find his family in ruins. This, coupled with the rage of war, sent him over the edge.
Julie, out of intense guilt, sent an anonymous bouquet of yellow roses to Daniel Gregg's funeral, and Collie traced them back to Julie, whom he begins dating under the nickname "Bud", which Daniel Gregg used to call him before he was killed. He also wins the trust of Helen, whilst calling himself "Collie". Both girls have no idea that the men they are growing close to are one and the same. Collie's first act of revenge was to try and kill Barry Cox by luring him out to the college playing field with the threat of revealing (false) photographs of Daniel Gregg's death to the authorities. Barry is shot by Wilson, but survives; however Wilson sees this as a boon, as Barry has been left half paralysed and Wilson muses, "For a guy like Barry, life in a wheelchair might be worse than no life at all." Wilson then attempts to kill Helen, but she flees and falls two storeys from her bathroom window, but she is unharmed. Wilson then confronts Julie and attempts to strangle her, but he is knocked out by Ray before she can be hurt. None of the four teens in the novel are killed, and Collie also survives.
| Amber Williams | |
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| I Know What You Did Last Summer character | |
| First appearance | I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer |
| Portrayed by | Brooke Nevin |
| Information | |
| Gender | Female |
Amber Williams is one of the main characters of the I Know What You Did Last Summer series. She appeared in the third movie, I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer. Amber is the main protagonist of the third movie, which occur years after the events of the first and second film. She is one of the four teens who is responsible for the prank that killed P.J., who was one of her friends. After the incident, Amber, Zoe, Colby and Roger, swore that they will keep their mouth shut and that the secret dies with them. One year after the incident, she received a text message implying that someone might know their secret. She then tells this to her friends. She was first attacked by the fisherman in a gondola, fifty feet in the air. At first, her friends do not believe that someone's trying to kill them, until the upcoming July 4 anniversary, where each receive threats. She was successful in killing the fisherman, by pushing him into a grinder. But a year later, she was stalked again by the fisherman, after having a tire blown off. It is unknown if she survived the fisherman's attack.
Friends: Zoe - died 2006; Roger - died, 2006; P.J. Davis - died, 2005; Kim, Kelly, Deputy John Hafner - died, 2006
Boyfriends: Colby Patterson(ex) - died, 2006; Lance
| Karla Wilson | |
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| I Know What You Did Last Summer character | |
| First appearance | I Still Know What You Did Last Summer |
| Portrayed by | Brandy Norwood |
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| Gender | Female |
Karla is Julie's best friend at college in the second movie, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. They win a holiday trip to the Bahamas, where Karla takes her boyfriend Tyrell along. When Ben arrives on the island to find Julie, Karla survives the ordeal-but her leg is seriously injured from her chase with Ben. Karla is the only known survivor to escape Ben Willis, as she is not seen or mentioned after the second film nor is she directly connected to the original incident. However, in the film I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, there is an article referring to four teens found dead at the Bahamas supposedly referring to Julie, Ray, and Ty. However, it remains unknown if this was the case or not.
Friends: Julie James
Boyfriend: Tyrell (died 1998)
| Elsa Rivers | |
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| I Know What You Did Last Summer character | |
| First appearance | I Still Know What You Did Last Summer |
| Portrayed by | Bridgette Wilson |
| Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Relatives | Helen (sister) |
Elsa is the money-grabbing elder sister of Helen. It is difficult to believe that the two girls are related, as they are nothing alike. Elsa is overweight and unattractive, and vehemently jealous of Helen's beauty and success. Elsa still lives at home and works in a department store. She showed delight after hearing of Barry Cox's shooting injuries, and feigned happiness for Helen, after realising the luxurious lifestyle Helen would live after becoming famous, but this was short-lived after Helen dismissed her ideas of living with her. Ray and Julie briefly suspect her to be behind the threats to reveal their part in Daniel Gregg's death.
In the film, Elsa is quite pretty even though she wears glasses. She is interrupted by Helen after the killer stalks her through her shop. She mocks Helen by ignoring the fact Helen is in danger. Elsa locks the employees-basement door and is pursued by the killer, she makes one last scream before she is slashed in the throat killing her. Her corpse is later shown beside a toilet when Helen tries getting out of the store.
Max was the only person that Julie, Ray, Helen, and Barry saw the night they ran over Ben Willis. A year later, Max is stabbed through the throat by Ben as he works at the docks preparing fish. He is portrayed by Johnny Galecki.
Officer Caporizo takes Helen home after she witnesses the death of her boyfriend Barry. The normal route is blocked, so he takes Helen down a dark alley. However he gets out of the car to attend to someone standing there. Helen tries to warn him that it is the same person who killed Barry, but he is taken by surprise and killed before he can reach for his gun. He is portrayed by Stuart Greer.
David is the guy seen sitting near a cliff after the opening credits of the first film. He is killed off screen by Ben Willis. Julie later finds newspaper clippings about his death and believes they killed him by accident a year prior to this. He is portrayed by Jonathan Quint.
Missy is David Egan's sister. Julie goes to her home on the woods for advice, upon believing that David was the guy they ran over the previous year, eventually finding out it actually was not him. She is portrayed by Anne Heche.
Tyrell is Karla's boyfriend in the first sequel. He is killed by Ben in the kitchen of the hotel after being hooked through the throat. He is portrayed by Mekhi Phifer.
A native of Jamaica and apparent stoner Telesco is stabbed through the chest with garden shears in the first sequel. He is portrayed by Jack Black.
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