Characters of the Silent Hill series

The following is a list of characters from the video game series Silent Hill.

Silent Hill

• Harry Mason is the player-controlled protagonist in Silent Hill, and is voiced by Michael G. Harry also appears in Silent Hill 3, as the father of that game's protagonist, Heather. He is killed by a beast known as The Missionary, which is led by Claudia.

• Cheryl Mason is Harry's seven-year-old adopted daughter in Silent Hill. Near the beginning of the game, she disappears after her father's Jeep swerves off of the road. She turns out to be the other half of Alessa Gilespi's soul and is used to give birth to the Incubus.

• Cybil Bennett is a police officer from the nearby town of Brahms who has come to Silent Hill to investigate the loss of communications. Cybil is Harry's ally in the game, providing him with a handgun and meeting him periodically throughout the game. Her fate depends on the player's actions at a key point in the game and will alter the ending achieved. She is voiced by Susan Papa.

• Dr. Michael Kaufmann is the director of medical staff at Alchemilla Hospital. He is apparently connected to The Order (the town's resident cult) as a drug dealer, but during the game he turns on them and attempts to prevent Dahlia Gilesspie's plans. He is voiced by Jarion Monroe, and also appears in the prequel game Silent Hill: Origins.

• Lisa Garland. A former nurse on the staff of Alchemilla Hospital. Harry encounters Lisa multiple times in the "Otherworld" hospital, uncertain of what exactly is going on and unable to remember what has happened to the town. By the end of the game she is driven to the conclusion that she is in fact a monster manifested by the town and shortly after telling Harry this she disappears. It would also seem she took care of Alessa while she was in the hospital, due to her severe burns from the "accident" Dahlia staged. You also meet her in several places, including Alchemilla Hospital in Silent Hill: Origins. She is voiced by Thessaly Lerner.

• Dahlia Gillespie. An eccentric woman, Dahlia is the leader of the Silent Hill cult and the mastermind behind Alessa’s birth and injury. Dahlia is Alessa's mother, though their relationship was anything but loving. Dahlia coerced Harry, via his quest to find his missing daughter, into helping her find and subdue Alessa in the Otherworld so she could make the girl birth the God. Dahlia always talks in riddles and appears to be a stereotypical cryptic advisor, but soon she turns out to be one of the main villains in game. Upon the god’s birth, Dahlia was killed by either the Holy Woman in White (Incubator) or by Incubus. She appears in the first Silent Hill video game (voiced by Liz Mamorsky), Silent Hill Origins (voiced by Laurence Bouvard) and the Silent Hill film (portrayed by Deborah Kara Unger).

• Alessa Gillespie. Alessa is the daughter of Dahlia Gillespie, the leader of a cult known as The Order that operates out of the fictitious titular town of Silent Hill. She was originally meant to follow in her mother's footsteps and take over as spiritualistic medium for the religious group, but her role in the franchise is greater, her history directly influencing all events in the Silent Hill universe. She appears in the first Silent Hill video game, voiced by Sandra Wayne; and in the film, portrayed by Jodelle Ferland. A mimicked form of Alessa also appears in Silent Hill 3, in an encounter at the Lakeside Amusement Park. Alessa appears in three of the Silent Hill games. While hated by the Order in the first Silent Hill, by Silent Hill 3 she is semi-worshiped. Several notes feature Order members referring to her as the Holy Mother. One of the save points in the game is a painting of her which refers to her as "St. Alessa".

• Andy. A boy with a crush on Cheryl that stows away in Harry's jeep during the first game. His story is only unlockable in the Silent Hill Play Novel.

Silent Hill 2

Main article: Characters of Silent Hill 2

• James Sunderland is the protagonist of Silent Hill 2, who is searching for his dead wife.
• Mary Shepherd-Sunderland is James Sunderland's dead wife, who is waiting for him in Silent Hill, at their "special place."
• Angela Orosco is a mentally-disturbed girl who was sexually abused by her father at a young age. She is searching for her mother in Silent Hill.
• Eddie Dombrowski is an obese man who dresses like a child and carries a revolver. At first he appears to be easy going, but towards the end of the game it becomes apparent that he is also mentally unstable after years of abuse regarding his weight and appearance.
• Laura is a young girl who appears to hold some sort of unexplained grudge against James, as well as knowing Mary's identity.
• Maria is the player-controlled protagonist in Silent Hill 2's "Born From a Wish" scenario. She bears a striking resemblance to James' late wife, Mary.
• Ernest Baldwin is the man whom Maria encounters in the "Born From a Wish" sub-scenario. Although they never see each other and have conversations through a locked door, Ernest is the primary reason that Maria finds and accompanies James in Silent Hill 2.

Silent Hill 3

• Heather Mason . The player character and protagonist of Silent Hill 3. Heather is the matured Cheryl Mason from Silent Hill 's "Good" and "Good +" endings. As the reincarnation of Alessa Gilesspie from the first game Heather is instrumental in the antagonist Claudia Wolf's efforts to bring about the rebirth of "God", and most of the game revolves around Heather's attempts to thwart her.

• Douglas Cartland. An aged private investigator hired by Claudia Wolf and The Order to locate Heather. When this results in the death of Heather's adoptive father Harry, he feels guilty and accompanies Heather into Silent Hill as an ally. If the player gets the "Possessed" ending, Heather kills Douglas, implying that she herself has been 'possessed' by her 'true self'. Douglas is mentioned in one of The Order's books in Silent Hill Homecoming, which states that Douglas successfully exposed the Silent Hill cult to the authorities after the events of Silent Hill 3. Douglas was portrayed by Richard Grosse, who died due to liver failure on 12 April 2003 at the age of 54. Silent Hill 3 was his last role.

• Claudia Wolf. A priestess in The Order, and the main antagonist of the game. It is said during the game that she was abused as a child. Claudia is attempting to carry on where Dahlia Gilesspie failed in Silent Hill and use Alessa Gilesspie (through her reincarnation as Heather) to birth "the god".

• Father Vincent. A high priest in The Order. Vincent is apparently more hedonistic and less dogmatic than Claudia, and opposes her actions. Vincent appears to be on Heather's side during the game, but is often seen as vindictive and hypocritical. He tends to make lots of motions and random voice inflections while speaking.

• Leonard Wolf. The abusive father of Claudia Wolf and former leader of The Order. Heather encounters him in the Brookhaven mental hospital to acquire an artifact he and Vincent believe can prevent the birth of "god", where he takes the form of a monster.

• Harry Mason. The protagonist of Silent Hill. Harry appears in a limited capacity as Heather's adoptive father. Prior to Silent Hill 3 Harry kills a member of The Order who tracked the two down and went into hiding. During the game he is killed under Claudia's orders out of revenge and to further her goal of having Heather birth "god". Heather can also read Harry's journal and his notes left as save points in the first game serve as save points in some areas of Silent Hill.

Silent Hill 4: The Room

• Henry Townshend The player character and stoic protagonist of Silent Hill 4: The Room. Henry is suddenly trapped in his apartment for five days prior to the beginning of the game and begins to suffer from recurring nightmares. He discovers a mysterious hole in his bathroom, through which he enters several distorted "otherworlds" and encounters the other characters in the game. There is little known about Henry other than he may be a professional photographer, or at least enjoys doing it on his free time. He apparently has very few acquaintances, and barely knows any of the other tenants in his apartment building. He has apparently been to Silent Hill at least once before, when the weather was sunny not foggy.

• Eileen Galvin A young woman who lives next door to Henry in Room 303. Walter intends to make her his 20th victim (having met her when she was a child and he was a homeless teen), but her murder is disrupted by the intervention of the child Walter, though she is badly wounded. Henry finds her again in the Hospital world, where she accompanies him throughout the other levels as an ally. Her fate directly affects the ending achieved. Eileen has also visited Silent Hill at least once in her life.

• Walter Sullivan The antagonist and arguably the central character of the game. Sullivan is a serial killer who had been raised in The Order's "Wish House" orphanage, where he came to believe that the place of his birth was his actual biological mother. His killing spree is part of a ritual he is attempting to carry out, the 21 Sacraments, to "purify her" (Henry's apartment). He has undergone the mysterious "Ritual of Assumption", which seems to grant him immortality as well as other vague mystical powers. He was born in Room 302 itself, and with the enforcement of Dahlia Gillespie, he began to gain his mad understanding of the room in his early years at the Orphanage where he was abused for years. Sometime near the time in which Silent Hill 2 occurred, Walter killed 10 people in 10 days, and was caught shortly afterward. He completed the Ritual of Holy Assumption by killing himself in prison, and created the twisted 'Otherworld', where he killed the victims leading up to the 4th Game.

• Young Walter Sullivan - An incarnation of Walter Sullivan's younger self, separated from adult Walter through the adult's supernatural activities. Young Walter's role is somewhat mysterious; he doesn't seem to understand the older Walter's intentions (or even to know who he is). When Henry meets Joseph Shreiber, the latter reveals that apparently Little Walter is the last glimmer of innocence in Sullivan's soul, being the part of him that only wanted to be with his mother when the older version split with him to become an inhuman, insane killer.

• Cynthia Velasquez The first of Walter's victims that Henry encounters. Cynthia is a young woman trapped in the "subway" world who is convinced that she is in a dream and offers Henry what is presumed to be a sexual favor if he helps her escape. At the end of the level Henry finds her dying from multiple stab wounds as Walter's 16th victim and when he returns to the subway world her ghost is waiting to attack him.

• Jasper Gein A young man with a noticeable stammer Henry finds in the Wish House/Forest world. Jasper has a strong interest in the Order and Silent Hill occult activity in general. He is closely linked with Walter Sullivan's second and third victims, and he was in fact at the scene of the crime when his college friends were strangled. He is burned alive by Sullivan at the end of the level as Sullivan's 17th victim, apparently pleased in his last moments with having met "The Devil", and haunts the area as a ghost when Henry returns.

• Andrew DeSalvo A nervous, middle aged man Henry meets locked in a cell in the Water Prison world. Prior to the game DeSalvo was employed by the Order as a guard at the Wish House and the Water Prison, (although he was apparently not a member of The Order himself) where he was abusive towards the children there. It is hinted at in the Forest World's stone diaries that he killed young Walter's childhood friend 'Bob' and made him drink something with leeches in it. After Henry frees him from the cell he is disturbed to meet young Walter and is last seen drowned as Walter's 18th victim. When Henry returns to the Water Prison he has to fight DeSalvo's ghost to acquire a key.

• Richard Braintree A violent and stressful man who lives in Room 207 of Henry's apartment building. For over thirty years Richard had lived at the South Ashfield Heights, and had always been an aggressor towards Walter in his younger years. During the time that Joseph lived at the Apartments, there was an incident where he brutally beat a fellow tenant named Mike, who stalked nurse Rachel, who may have been the same Rachel from Silent Hill 2. During the game, Richard is encountered in the "building" area, where he angrily accosts the child Walter. At the end of the level he is killed by Walter using an electric chair, attempting to identify his killer to Henry before dying. Like Sullivan's other victims, he is encountered as a ghost in the world where he is killed. His ghost form is the only one which does not float, though it attacks with great celerity and can teleport.

• Joseph Schreiber An investigative journalist who was investigating the Sullivan murders and the Wish House prior to the game. Joseph is the former resident of Henry's apartment and Sullivan's 15th victim. In the beginning of the game, the player can actually control Joseph. The room has Henry's belongings and he asks where his typewriter is. When he sees a picture of Henry, he asks "Who is this person?", thus confirming that the controlled character is not Henry Townshend, but Joseph Schreiber.
  Joseph is killed in the beginning of the game by a ghost. The fact that the player controls Joseph briefly proves he was still alive when Townshend was living in the apartment, but was trapped in the Otherworld. He later appears in the game as a friendly ghost offering advice on how to defeat Walter. During the game, the small red notes that he left behind give insight to certain aspects, and in some cases tips to defeat powerful enemies; for example, one note left behind states that Holy Candles and Saint Medallions could weaken them dramatically, as well as Dispel Hauntings. Over time, it is revealed through his notes that Joseph was imprisoned in room 302 much like Henry was, and at some point he went mad and was killed. There was a reference to him in Silent Hill 3, when Joseph's "Wish House" article was found by Heather at the 1st floor of Brookhaven hospital, saying she "knows that place from somewhere."

• Frank Sunderland The superintendent of Henry's apartment building and the father of Silent Hill 2's James Sunderland. Frank makes an effort to investigate what is going on in Henry's room during the game, but is unable to open the door or otherwise enter the room. For some reason, he has kept Walter Sullivan's umbilical cord for over 30 years.

Silent Hill Origins

As Origins is a prequel that takes place seven years before the first game, Alessa Gillespie, Dr. Kaufmann, Lisa Garland and Dahlia Gillespie all appear in the game.

• Travis Grady. Voiced by Mikey O'Connor. Is the player character and protagonist. Travis is a trucker who rescues Alessa Gillespie from the house fire mentioned in Silent Hill. It is revealed that he was abused by his mother, who attempted to kill him at a young age. She was subsequently admitted to Cedar Groves Sanitarium, where she rationalized her actions. She mentioned that Travis was a pest, and that he also had a devil in him. It is also revealed that Travis's father killed himself while he was still a child. Travis is one of the very few characters in the Silent Hill franchise (especially as a playable character) who shows any history of handling and using firearms although he doesn't like seeing harmed or dead animals implying he doesn't like hunting. He makes a cameo appearance in the beginning of Silent Hill: Homecoming. Here, he gives Alex Shepherd, the game's protagonist, a ride to the town of Shepherd's Glen .

• Helen Grady. Travis' mother who was committed to the Cedar Grove Sanitarium in 1959 when Travis was a boy. Helen attempted to murder her son calling him the "Red Devil".

• Richard Grady. Travis' father who fell into a deep depression after his wife was institutionalized. He later committed suicide when Travis was young.

• The Butcher. A monster that Travis witnesses flaying monsters on several occasions. His actions and appearance are similar to those of Pyramid Head. He is 'killed' by Travis after a fight in Riverside Motel's kitchen.

• Alessa Gillespie. The daughter of Dahlia Gillespie.

• Dahlia Gillespie. Alessa's mother. Instead of the ceremonial robes and details on her outfit as was the case in the first game, this time she is in a jacket with her hair free and no extra jewelry.

• Lisa Garland. A nurse at the hospital. In the game, she is still a trainee but desires to act in the theatre.

• Dr. Michael Kaufmann. The director of the hospital who aids Dahlia in her plan.

Silent Hill: Homecoming

PlayStation: The Official Magazine notes that the "characters are gorgeously lifelike and exceptionally well animated..." Notable characters include:

• Alex Shepherd is the player character and protagonist of Silent Hill: Homecoming. The game focuses around Alex's return from an absence due to military service. He returns to his hometown of Shepherd's Glen to search for his brother. He has no love for the people in the town nor the town itself, which has slipped into decay. He only feels that his brother needs his help and wants to leave the town as soon as his business is finished. It is later revealed that Alex was actually not in the military, but at a mental hospital, suffering under delusions of his brother still being alive and needing help. This is hinted several times throughout the game. For example his dog-tags which are most visible in the cut-scenes say "Shepherd, Adam." They are are later confirmed by his father to be his. His full name is just Alex Shepherd this is visible on the family crypt.

• Elle Holloway is an old school friend of Alex. She is 22 years old and the daughter of Judge Holloway. She is often found spending time at the bulletin board in front of the police station, putting up a seemingly endless pile of missing person reports, including the report of her younger sister, Nora. At first she is cold towards Alex resenting him for leaving with out telling her. However, she noticeably softens during the story. She later follows Alex through certain parts of the game, and may escape the town with him if the right ending is earned.

• Joshua Shepherd is Alex's 9-year-old brother. Alex is very protective of his brother and returns to his hometown due to a feeling that his brother needs his help. Receiving no help on where his brother could have gone from the townspeople, Alex resolves to find him on his own. Joshua continues a tradition just as Cheryl from Silent Hill and Mary from Silent Hill 2, as being the lost loved one the main character sets out to find. After a chase throughout the game of seeing Josh run from him continually, Alex realizes at the end that Josh has been long dead, due to a boating accident of which Alex is partly to blame. In a special unlockable scene after the credits, Josh is seen taking a photo of Alex, one that can be found earlier in the game, creating a paradox.
• Lillian Shepherd is the mother of Joshua and Alex Shepherd. When Alex returns home, he finds his mother in a near catatonic state, staring vacantly while sitting in a rocking chair and not responding helpfully to any questions he asks. Her ultimate fate is to be chained up in a prison and executed by being stretched on a rack for her part in the crimes against Silent Hill's Order. The ending of the game is affected by whether or not Alex kills his mother to put her out of her misery.

• Sherrif Adam J. Shepherd born 1954 (shown by his discharge letter), is Alex and Joshua's father, who is explained as having left town, possibly to search for Joshua. A former military man (a Colonel in the Army and Stationed at Ft. Bragg), he was the sheriff of Shepherd's Glen, and his ancestor, Isaac Shepherd was one of four Silent Hill residents to settle Shepherd's Glen, more than 150 years ago. He is encountered in the church in Silent Hill, in a confessional booth, where he confesses (to someone he believes to be a priest, but is actually Alex) that he loved both of his sons and didn't want to lose either of them to the sacrifices required of the cult. The option of forgiving or not forgiving him affects the ending received. He is executed by the monster 'Bogeyman' (aka Pyramid Head) shortly thereafter.

• Curtis Ackers is the owner of the junk shop in Shepherd's Glen. Alex first encounters him in his shop, where he offers an old revolver in exchange for a newer gun. Like most other townspeople in Shepherd's Glen, he's unhelpful as to the cause of the decay of the town. He is later found to be working for Silent Hill's Order, claiming his love of fixing things has carried over into his work for the Order, in which he brutally kills people who go against the Order's teachings. He captures and threatens Elle with a circular saw tool before being attacked and killed by Alex.

• Judge Margaret Holloway is the female judge living in Alex's hometown Sheperd's Glen. Like Alex's father, she is descended from one of Shepherd's Glen's founders. She is one of the first people to greet Alex on his return. In the beginning, she welcomes Alex, but does warn him that the town has changed, and not for the better. Alex discovers her later in Silent Hill, tied down to a chair. He releases her and she escapes. It is later learned that she was there to be killed by the monster, Asphyxia (this could be an incarnation of Nora). Like the other founder descendants, she was forced to sacrifice a child to keep the influence of the Order from pervading Shepherd's Glen. She chose her younger daughter, Nora, whom she personally strangled. She is later found to be cooperating with Silent Hill's Order. Because of the failed sacrifice of Alex, she seeks to redeem herself in the eyes of the Order by killing him. She attempts to kill Alex with a cordless drill, but he overpowers her and forces the drill into her head, killing her.

• Mayor Sam Bartlett is a descendant of one of the town's founders, like Alex's father and Judge Holloway. He is first seen by Alex in the cemetery digging in the Bartlett family plot, although Alex doesn't learn that it's him until later. Alex searches for him to find out if he knows where Josh is, since Josh is good friends with the Mayor's son, Joey. The Mayor is found in the Grand Hotel in Silent Hill, drunkenly lamenting the fate of Sheperd's Glen. It is later learned that he sacrificed his son Joey by burying him alive in the cemetery, which had a massive impact on his psyche, leading to his pathologically digging up graves. He is killed in the hotel's greenhouse by the monster Sepulcher, which is an incarnation of Joey. His first name is revealed by Deputy Wheeler while holding Alex at gun point.

• Deputy Wheeler is a police officer in Shepherds Glen, and the first African-American character in a Silent Hill game. He is portrayed as a conspiracy theorist in the journals on Homecoming's official site, and his reaction to Alex's kidnapping by aliens in the UFO ending. He is the first to notice the cult members, as also revealed in his journal, though he believes them to be part of a different conspiracy, likely involving the government or Trilateral Commission. [1] He aids and accompanies Alex at certain points of the game, and whether or not he survives the ordeal is up to a decision Alex makes to help him late in the game. He has an almost inhuman ability to keep himself alive, as he continually suffers bodily damage and harm yet somehow comes out alive each time.

• Dr. Martin Fitch is also a descendant of one of the founders of Shepherd's Glen, and is tied to the pact required to keep the influence of the Order from pervading the town. As part of the pact, he was required to kill his daughter, Scarlet by dismembering her (as stated when Alex inspects the Fitch family alter). This led to him losing his sanity, and resorting to self-mutilation. He is later found in a personal 'descending' Otherworld based around his office and hospitals. At the bottom of this, he is killed by a creature that forms from one of Scarlet's dolls. According to his degree he graduated from Southeastern University.

• Sgt. Nash is first introduced in Alex's diary entries. He and Alex are both sent to a military hospital after a botched mission resulting in the loss of 'over half' their squad. He is later sent back to participate in the war, and tells Alex, "Don't trust anyone." He does not play a role in the game, and was likely fabricated to supplement Alex's war delusion, explaining his lack of an appearance.[2].

• Travis Grady. The main character of Silent Hill Origins has a cameo appearance in Homecoming; he is seen dropping Alex off in Shepherds Glen.

Silent Hill: The Arcade

• Eric Lake. Featured in Silent Hill: The Arcade, Eric is one of two playable characters and apparently has a connection with the Little Baroness, a steamboat that disappeared in Lake Toluca in 1918.

• Tina Townshend. Another playable character in Silent Hill: The Arcade, Tina comes to Silent Hill with her friends Eric, Bill, and Jessie to visit a little girl named Emilie and her father, Frank.

Silent Hill Film

Note: Though it exists outside the continuity of the game series, many of the characters in the film are interpretations of game characters.

• Rose DaSilva, played by Radha Mitchell, a female version of the protagonist from the first game, Harry Mason.
• Christopher DaSilva, played by Sean Bean.
• Sharon DaSilva, played by Jodelle Ferland, a version of Silent Hill 1's Cheryl Mason.
• Cybil Bennett (Silent Hill 1), played by Laurie Holden. One critic noted that in the film, "Cybil Bennett's increased role was a nice touch, especially because Rose left a void for a strong character, any strong character, to fill."
• Dahlia Gillespie (Silent Hill 1 & Origins), played by Deborah Kara Unger, is a former member of the Order who, after the failed sacrifice of her beloved daughter, has descended into madness. Regardless of her mental state, Dahlia's concern for her daughter leads her to try and protect Sharon from the Order's agents. In the end, Dahlia is left alive, but forever trapped in Silent Hill. In the film, her full name is mentioned as Cassandra Dahlia Gillespie.
• Thomas Gucci, played by Kim Coates, is a jaded police detective and Cybil's superior officer from Brahams who is investigating the disappearance of Cybil, Rose and Sharon. Though he humors Christopher's desire to search for his wife and child, he ultimately has little desire to explore the town of Silent Hill. As a young police officer, he found the injured Alessa and took her to the hospital, burning his hands in the process.
• Christabella, played by Alice Krige, is the leader of the small group of Order refugees living in their old church. It was Christabella that orchestrated the sacrifice of Alessa Gillespie and after the darkness took over the town, created the only safe haven within. Alessa kills her at the climax of the film, causing a strand of living barbed wire to tear her in half from the inside. She is based on Claudia Wolf from the third game, as well as the evil version of Dahlia Gilesspie from the first game.
• Red Pyramid (Pyramid Head) (Silent Hill 2), a helmed figure who stalks the town to find and kill the members of Christabella's sect.
• Alessa Gillespie (Silent Hill 1, 3 & Origins), a game character in the Silent Hill series who is portrayed in the film by Jodelle Ferland.
• Red Nurse (a.k.a. Lisa Garland) (Silent Hill 1, Silent Hill: Homecoming & Origins). This is the attending nurse to Alessa in the hospital. She bears a striking resemblance to Lisa Garland from the first Silent Hill game.
• Anna A Member of the Cult of Silent Hill. she is seen throwing small plaques on Dahlia Gillespie. She leads Sharon, Cybil and, Unintentionally, Dahlia to the church of Silent Hill,. When seeing Dahlia warning Sharon of the cult, She picks up some rocks and throws them at Dahlia, unnaware that Pyramide Head is manifesting behind her. He grabs her and, in front of Sharon and Cybil, rips her clothes and skin off, the latter which he throws at them.