Andrea (The Walking Dead)
 | This article or section is in a state of significant expansion or restructuring. You are welcome to assist in its construction by editing it as well. If this article or section has not been edited in several days, please remove this template. If you are the editor who added this template and you are actively editing, please be sure to replace this template with {{in use}} during the active editing session. Click on the link for template parameters to use.
This article was last edited by Frickative (talk | contribs) 12 years ago. (Update timer) |
| Andrea | |
|---|---|
| The Walking Dead character | |
| File:Andrea (The Walking Dead).png Andrea as she appears in the comic series (left) and as portrayed by Laurie Holden in the TV series (right). | |
| First appearance | Issue 2 (comics) "Guts" (television) |
| Created by | Robert Kirkman |
| Portrayed by | Laurie Holden |
Andrea is a fictional character from the comic book series The Walking Dead and the American television series of the same name.
Appearances
 | This section needs additional citations for verification. (March 2012) |
Comics
Andrea is introduced in issue two of The Walking Dead as a survivor of the zombie apocalypse. She and her younger sister Amy were picked up by fellow survivor Dale Hovarth, and set up camp together on the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia, where they were soon joined by others. The group learn to handle guns, and Andrea discovers that she is an excellent marksman. When zombies invade the camp, Amy is bitten. A distraught Andrea shoots her sister to ensure that she does not return as a zombie.[1] The group move on, first to a gated community where Andrea and Dale begin a relationship, then a farm, before discovering a prison compound. One of the remaining inmates attacks Andrea, intent on beheading her. She manages to escape, but her earlobe is partially severed and she receives a facial scar.[2] Dale and Andrea discuss the possibility of leaving the group, but ultimately stay. They become surrogate parents to twins Billy and Ben when their father Allen is bitten by a zombie and dies.
The prison's existence is discovered by The Governor – the leader of Woodbury, a nearby town of survivors. Andrea teaches other group members to shoot to prepare them to defend the prison, and travels with several others to a nearby army base to increase their arsenal of weapons. Upon their return, Andrea discovers that Dale has been bitten on the calf by a zombie. She hurries him to the infirmary, where Rick Grimes, the groups' leader, cuts off his leg to save his life. Dale is jealous when Andrea begins spending increased amounts of time with group member Tyreese, until she reveals that he was helping her make a wooden leg and crutches for him.[3] When The Governor launches an attack on the prison, Andrea serves as a sniper and kills many of their attackers, though she is grazed by a bullet and receives a second facial scar.[4] The Woodbury group retreat, and Dale convinces Andrea to leave the prison with him and the twins. When the prison is attacked for a second time, Andrea returns alone and again kills a number of the Woodbury group.
The prison survivors reunite back at the farm, where they meet a new group and decide to travel with them to Washington D.C.. En-route, Dale attempts to convince Andrea to again break from the group, and start a new life with Billy and Ben in an abandoned farmhouse.[5] Andrea displays reluctance, and the suggestion becomes moot with the arrival of a herd of zombies. While on the road again, Ben murders Billy, seemingly unaware of the gravity of his actions. The group discuss killing him, and Dale suggests that the three of them leave together, but that night, Ben is shot by Rick's son Carl. Andrea is distraught, even more so when Dale disappears.[6] She admits to Rick that she fears Dale never knew of her genuine love for him. Dale is later returned to the group missing his second leg, which has been eaten by cannibals. He reveals that he is dying, as he had been bitten by a zombie and left during the night to spare Andrea the pain of his death. She, Rick, Michonne and Abraham hunt down and murder the cannibals. She tells Dale how much she loves him, and is with him when he dies. As with Amy, she shoots him to stop him from turning into a zombie.[7]
On the outskirts of Washington, the group are recruited by a scout for a nearby safe zone, Alexandria. Andrea becomes the town's look-out. Although she is pessimistic as to how long their safety will last, she attempts to discourage Rick from challenging the safe zone's hierarchy. She rebuffs the romantic advances of the zone's leader, Douglas, and while she later shares a flirtation with his son Spencer, she terminates their fledgling relationship when he suggests they abandon the zone while the other inhabitants are under attack from zombies. Andrea develops feelings for Rick.[8] They share a kiss, but he rebuffs her, with the explanation that everyone he cares about dies, and he does not want to lose her. She attempts to convince him that their shared experiences make them uniquely compatible, and insists on joining him in his journey to a neighboring safe zone, to demonstrate that he need not worry about her safety.
Television
In the television series, Andrea is twelve years older than Amy (Emma Bell). She first appears in episode two, "Guts", in which she and a group of survivors become trapped in a department store building while on a supply run. They are saved by group member Glenn (Steven Yeun) and newcomer Rick (Andrew Lincoln), and make it back to their camp, where Andrea reunites with Amy. Several days later, the camp becomes overrun with zombies and Amy is bitten. Andrea holds her dead sister for hours until she reanimates, then shoots her.[9] The group take shelter at the Center for Disease Control, which is set to explode when the power runs out. A depressed Andrea elects to stay behind and die. Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn) attempts to convince her to leave, and resolves to stay with her when she refuses. Unwilling to be responsible for his death, Andrea changes her mind and the two escape with moments to spare
Andrea is angry with Dale for denying her the choice to die. This intensifies when he agrees with Rick and Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal) that only those who have been trained should be allowed firearms, and confiscates her father's gun. She later approaches Shane and asks to go with him should he leave the group.[10] Dale soon returns Andrea's gun, but asks her not to give him cause to regret it. The group set up camp at a farm. While keeping watch, Andrea mistakes group member Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) for a zombie and clips him with a bullet. He forgives her, and Shane helps Andrea to improve her shooting skills. The two scout out a nearby housing estate and become surrounded by zombies. After initially struggling to shoot them, Andrea makes a string of accurate head-shots. On the way back to camp, she and Shane have sex.[11] Dale expresses his distrust of Shane, but Andrea insists that he has done more for the group than even its leader, Rick. Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies), Rick's wife, confronts Andrea about her contributions to the group, suggesting that her time would be better spent cooking and doing laundry than taking watch. Further conflict arises when Andrea leaves Beth Greene (Emily Kinney), the farm owner's suicidal daughter, alone, giving her the chance to die should she wish to. Beth cuts her wrist, but only shallowly. Andrea is pleased that Beth has chosen to live, but is banned from the farmhouse by Beth's sister Maggie (Lauren Cohan).[12] When Dale tries to gain support to halt the execution of the newcomer Randall, Andrea is initially reluctant but eventually concedes that they should look for a different solution to keep the group safe. Andrea sobs over Dale's body as he succumbs to a fatal wound caused by a rogue walker.
Development
Casting
Andrea is portrayed by Laurie Holden, who was cast as part of the series in 2010.[13] Prior to the show, Holden had been in two of Frank Darabont's films, The Majestic and The Mist; the latter of which starred two other Walking Dead cast members Melissa McBride and Jeffrey DeMunn. Soon after being cast, she read through the comics to analyze and get a definite understanding of the character of Andrea. She acknowledged her enjoyment of having more a more physical role than some of her other past projects, as well as her excitement towards having her character gradually become a warrior like in the comics.[14]
Trivia
 | This article contains a list of miscellaneous information. (March 2012) |
- Andrea is one of the longest living survivors in the comic book series, along with Rick, Glenn and Sophia.
References
- ^ The Walking Dead #5 (February 2004)
- ^ The Walking Dead #17 (March 2005)
- ^ The Walking Dead #42 (September 2007)
- ^ The Walking Dead #44 (November 2007)
- ^ The Walking Dead #58 (February 2009)
- ^ The Walking Dead #61 (May 2009)
- ^ The Walking Dead #66 (October 2009)
- ^ The Walking Dead #90 (October 2011)
- ^ "Wildfire"
- ^ "What Lies Ahead"
- ^ "Secrets"
- ^ "18 Miles Out"
- ^ Marshall, Rick (May 5, 2012). "'The Walking Dead' TV Series Adds Two More Cast Members". MTV. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
- ^ Radish, Christina (December 1, 2010). "Laurie Holden Exclusive Interview The Walking Dead". Collider.com. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
External links
| Comic books | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Television series |
| ||||||||
| Web series |
| ||||||||
| Video game series |
| ||||||||
| Novels | |||||||||
| Rides | |||||||||
| Characters | |||||||||
.png){kind=link}