Trista Wu
10.19.10
Character Profile Worksheet
Basic Statistics
Name: Billy Jean
Age: 33
Nationality: White or Hispanic
Socioeconomic Level as a child: Middle class
Socioeconomic Level as an adult: Low class on government aid
Hometown: Not NYC
Current Residence: In NYC
Occupation: Jobless?
Income: Low
Talents/Skills: He was in a band that broke up after a month, he was the lead singer that got kicked off.
Salary: $0
Birth order:
Siblings (describe relationship): Younger Brother, lost contact after he won’t give up auditioning to talent agencies
Spouse (describe relationship): None
Children (describe relationship): None
Grandparents (describe relationship): They passed away
Grandchildren (describe relationship): None
Significant Others (describe relationship): A white/Hispanic women that is same age as him
Relationship skills: He likes going to parties to show off his girlfriend and to get wasted.
Physical Characteristics:
Height: pretty tall around 5’7+
Weight: 200+
Race: White
Eye Color: Dirt brown
Hair Color: Highlighted blond.
Glasses or contact lenses? None
Skin color: Uneven tan lines, farmers’ tan.
Shape of Face: Round, with triple chin.
Distinguishing features: Not much, just his mullet.
How does he/she dress? Like in the past, still stuck in the 70’s with his fashion.
Mannerisms: Not very considerate of others, more centered towards what he feels.
Habits: (smoking, drinking etc.) Heavy drinker but with low alcohol tolerance.
Health: Overweight, almost obese.
Hobbies: Going to pubs.
Favorite Sayings: I’m going to get signed.
Speech patterns: Not much different sober or drunk, likes slurring words together.
Disabilities: None
Style (Elegant, shabby etc.): old shabby style, torn jeans etc.
Greatest flaw: bad drunk
Best quality: Don’t have any/
Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes
Educational Background: high school graduate, dropped out of community college.
Intelligence Level: Not important to him, so that part of his brain is not developed.
Any Mental Illnesses? None.
Learning Experiences: None.
Character's short-term goals in life: To get signed by a talent agency.
Character's long-term goals in life: Be more known and loved than Justin Bieber.
How does Character see himself/herself? A person that is too cool for others to comprehend.
How does Character believe he/she is perceived by others? Really awesome that everyone wants to be like him.
How self-confident is the character? He has high self confidence
Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof? He ruled by his emotion of thinking that everyone likes him, and driven by the need to get famous.
What would most embarass this character? Someone making fun of his mullet.
Emotional Characteristics
Strengths/Weaknesses: High self confidence, his mullet.
Introvert or Extrovert? extroverted
How does the character deal with anger? By drinking
With sadness? He just shuts himself in the bathroom
With conflict? He avoids the topic and pretends that he didn’t hear
With change? He’s okay with it
With loss? Cries in the bathroom.
What does the character want out of life? Getting famous
What would the character like to change in his/her life? To be a rock star
What motivates this character? Being famous and well known by other people
What frightens this character? Being insignificant
What makes this character happy? Getting drunk, going to parties, having girls, concerts
Is the character judgmental of others? He thinks everyone is less cool than him.
Is the character generous or stingy? Generous but he doesn’t have much to give besides his signature
Is the character generally polite or rude? Stuck up and rude.
Spiritual Characteristics
Does the character believe in God? No
What are the character's spiritual beliefs? Nothing
Is religion or spirituality a part of this character's life? No
If so, what role does it play?
What does this character want?? Need? Wish? Hope?
I don’t really know what the character want, but because he dresses like he was in the 60-70’s and rock star style, he probably wants to be famous or he’s just really into the fashion and music during that time. When I was watching him on the train he was standing up with his girlfriend leaning against the door and a pole with his girlfriend cornering him. He kept on wanting to get off the train and saying that he has to go home, but his girlfriend is saying that it’s not his stop. He was kind of drunk enough to have no common sense, by the way his girlfriend and him looks, it doesn’t seem like they are very high class.
This is impressive character development. I love Billie Jean as a character and I feel like you definitely involved a lot of this characterization into your subtext scene.
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