Lana Ardsley | |
Continuity: | Friday the 13th |
Notability: | Minor character |
Type: | Murder victim |
Occupation: | Waitress |
Gender: | Female |
Race: | Human |
Location: | Wessex County, New Jersey |
Status: | Deceased |
Died: | 1989 |
First: | Friday the 13th: A New Beginning |
Actor: | Rebecca Wood-Sharkey |
Lana Ardsley is a fictional murder victim and a minor character featured in the Friday the 13th film series. She appeared in the fifth installment of the franchise, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, where she was played by actress Rebecca Wood-Sharkey.
Biography[]
Lana was a waitress at a diner located somewhere in southern New Jersey in the late 1980s. She dated an ambulance driver named Billy, who picked up her up one night for a date. Lana prepped herself in the bathroom, which involved flashing her breasts to herself in front of a mirror then closed up the shop.
When she went outside, Billy was nowhere to be found. She went into his car and found some of his cocaine, which she snorted. Just then, masked murderer Roy Burns appeared, having already killed Billy. Lana screamed in horror and tried to escape, but Roy hacked her in the chest with an axe, killing her. [1]
Relationships[]
- Billy Macauley - Boyfriend, deceased.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Lana Ardsley was created by director Danny Steinmann and writers Martin Kitrosser and David Cohen.
- Although Friday the 13th: A New Beginning was released in 1985, the events of the film take place closer to 1989 given the relative age of the character of Tommy Jarvis.
- The Friday the 13th wiki gives Lana's surname as Ardsley, though she is never identified as such in the film.
- Lana is the fifth murder victim in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. She is the fourth victim of Roy Burns. She is the second and final character to be killed with an axe. The first was Billy Macauley.
- When flashing her breasts to herself, Lana exclaimed "It's showtime!" The impetus behind this is unclear. Perhaps acts of vanity and narcissism followed by unwarranted exclamations was a common trait among Jersey girls from the 1980s.