26 Facts About Sidney Prescott

Sidney Prescott is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Scream franchise.

Sidney Prescott first appeared in Scream followed by four sequels: Scream 2, Scream 3, Scream 4, Scream and mentioned that and photos only in Scream VI.

Sidney Prescott is set to return in the upcoming seventh film in the franchise.

The killers that target Sidney Prescott have varying motivations ranging from revenge in Scream, Scream 2, and Scream 3 to the fame that will come from killing her in Scream 4, due to the fame she herself has obtained as a survivor of the murder spree in the original 3 films.

Sidney Prescott first becomes the focus of her boyfriend Billy Loomis and his friend Stu Macher, Billy seeking revenge for his mother's abandonment following his father's affair with Sidney's mother, Maureen Prescott.

Neve Campbell's role as Sidney Prescott has received significant critical praise throughout the series, earning her the title of scream queen in the 1990s, and won her the Saturn Award for Best Actress in 1997 for Scream and the MTV Award for Best Female Performance in 1998 for her role in Scream 2.

Sidney Prescott first appeared in the 1996 film Scream as a teenager attending the fictional Woodsboro High School.

Sidney Prescott has appeared in the first six of the seven Scream films to date and is mentioned in the sixth.

Sidney Prescott is the accomplice to Mrs Loomis, seeking revenge against Sidney for the death of her son Billy.

The third appearance of Sidney Prescott occurs in Scream 3, set two years after the events of Scream 2.

Ghostface claims responsibility for the murder of Maureen Prescott and is unmasked as the thirty-year-old director of Stab 3, Roman Bridger, Sidney's previously unknown half-brother.

Sidney Prescott denounces Roman for his actions and manages to outwit and defeat him after a vicious fight, while Dewey Riley ultimately shoots and kills Roman, and finally moves on with her life.

Jill betrays and kills Charlie, and stabs Sidney Prescott, before brutalizing herself to appear as the "sole survivor", but after arriving at the hospital, she discovers Sidney Prescott has narrowly survived, having received treatment in the ICU.

When Jill attempts to finally kill her cousin, Sidney Prescott manages to outsmart her deranged cousin and eventually shoot her in the heart, killing her, while declaring that Jill forgot the first rule of horror remakes, which was never to mess with the original.

Sidney Prescott is revealed to have returned to her life away from Woodsboro and is married with kids; three daughters with a man named Mark Evans.

Sidney Prescott enters the house alone to find Amber and is taunted by the other killer, though she isn't fazed at all by the taunting phone call and hangs up on him; the other killer is later revealed to be Richie.

Sidney Prescott appears as a 44-year-old wife to chief of Pine Grove police, Mark Evans and overprotective mother to an 18-year-old teenager, Tatum Evans who was ran off after she'd had a enough of Sidney Prescott's overprotectiveness and started a relationship with her 18-year-old boyfriend, Brian.

Sidney Prescott identified the fans who related to Sidney as being people who felt "misunderstood" and "shut down some way in their life [and] had to push a glass ceiling", or been subjected to bullying.

Sidney Prescott expressed appreciation for the character's role as a symbol of resilience and hope for anyone who struggles with bullying, especially in their youth and that her actions in the films give fans and audience goers the "confidence that they can overcome".

Sidney Prescott narrowly survives the third act saving Sidney from being stabbed after serving as a red herring in the film.

The fifth film reveals Sidney Prescott became a mother of three children between the events of the fourth and fifth films, set ten years apart.

Sidney Prescott's children with Dempsey's character include a newborn or toddler in a baby stroller, as well as two school-aged daughters that Sidney plans to take to school after she goes for an exercise run.

The role of Sidney Prescott was initially given to actress Drew Barrymore after Barrymore herself approached the production, having read the script, to request the role and was signed to the film before a director had even been found.

Sidney Prescott's availability was limited enough that she was only available for 20 days of filming which resulted in a significantly reduced role for her character and a shift in focus to Cox and Arquette's characters of Gale Weathers and Dewey Riley respectively.

When production of Scream 4 was announced, nearly ten years after the last installment of the series, Campbell initially refused offers to reprise her role as Sidney Prescott, forcing early script drafts to be written in consideration of her absence while again shifting focus on to Cox and Arquette's roles.

Sidney Prescott received a third and final Best Female Performance nomination from MTV in 2000 for the character in Scream 3 but lost to fellow Scream alum Sarah Michelle Gellar for Cruel Intentions.