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Helen Shyres is a character from Carrie. She is portrayed by Chelan Simmons.

Character Bio

Helen is first seen playing baseball with Carrie White and the Ultras. When Carrie misses the ball, she asks Sue, "Do you think she's retarded?" She also takes part in the locker room incident, in which she and the other girls taunt Carrie after she gets her first menstrual period. She and the other girls end up getting punished for their actions.

When Helen talks with Sue about the prom while they decorate the gymnasium (and a rumor about Sue and Carrie having an affair), and she also agreed with Sue in the end that what they did to Carrie was wrong.

During the prom, Helen is shown with her boyfriend, Roy and compliments Carrie, like Frieda did in the 1976 version and makes odd jokes.

Helen notices Tina Blake and her boyfriend Kenny Garson are looking at the bucket of pigs' blood ready for the blood to fall on Carrie and is shocked to see Carrie get covered in pigs blood and how Kenny & Tina were laughing.

Helen slaps Kenny and runs up on stage to help out Tommy Ross, who is killed by a heavy falling bucket. She tries to snap Carrie out of her trance, but Miss Desjarden pushes her out of the way. She is seen saying, "He isn't breathing" while touching Tommy's vain.

Helen is then seen helping Roy pick up Tommy. Both she and Roy died in the Black Prom.

Later in the film, Detective John Mulchaey mentions Helen's name while interviewing Miss Desjarden about the incident by saying, "You and Helen Shyres both witnessed Carrie White in some sort of trance."

Notes

  • Chelan Simmons is one of several actors appearing on Carrie (2002) to have appeared on other Stephen King-related productions: she played the little Laurie Anne in It (1990).
  • In the first part of the film, she fills the role of herself. In the Prom Scene, she fills the role of Frieda Jason and Sue Snell.
  • Her name was seen on the ballot, and Chris told Tina that "Roy and Helen... No way!"
  • Helen's role is a lot larger in this film in comparison to her 1976 counterpart where she serves as one of Carrie's bullies with less dialogue and having her role taken by Frieda Jason during preparation for the prom. Here, in spite of being mean to Carrie at the beginning, she is a lot nicer to her following detention and compliments her during the prom.

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