Taryn White

"Why should we fight? We're old friends, you and I. Remember?"

- Freddy Krueger

 is a fictional mental patient and murder victim and a supporting character in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. Played by actress Jennifer Rubin, she appeared in the third installment in the series, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.

Biography
Taryn White was a teenager who lived in the town of Springwood, Ohio, in the 1980s. Plagued by nightmares wrought by dream Freddy Krueger, Taryn defended her psyche the only way she knew how - through drugs. As the nightmares and her habitual drug use continued, Taryn eventually found herself a patient at the Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital.

Taryn worked with Doctor Neil Gordon and was part of a focus group comprised of similar patients, all of whom represented the "Last of the Elm Street children". A civilian consultant named Nancy Thompson was brought in to aid the kids through these difficult times. Nancy was the only adult who understood that the threat of Freddy Krueger was a very real thing. Nancy encouraged the patients to reach into themselves to discover their dream power. Taryn's power was to transform herself from a defenseless scared girl into a strong-willed switchblade-wielding badass.

All of this proved for naught however. When Taryn went to sleep, she invoked her dream power to combat Freddy Krueger. At first, Taryn did fairly well for herself, and even succeeded in sticking Freddy with her switchblade. Ultimately however, Freddy transformed his fingertips into needles, and thrust them into Taryn's arms, injecting her with a lethal overdose of drugs.

Keywords
Drug addict; Freddy Krueger; Elm Street; Last of the Elm Street children; Mental health facility; Mental patient; Ohio; Smoking; Springwood; Westin Psychiatric Hospital