Existing character profile - Andy Dufresne

Name: Andy Dufresne
Film/s: The Shawshank Redemption
Gender: Male
Actor/actress: Tim Robbins
Inmate number: 37927

Andy Dufresne is the main protagonist of the amazing, award winning 'The Shawshank Redemption'. Andy, a very well off vice president of a bank, is in for an unfortunate turn of events when he is charged for putting 4 bullets in both his wife and her secret lover. His punishment, a life sentence at Shawshank State Penitentiary. While inside, we find out many things about this character such as his abnormal personality compared to other inmates and his strange behaviour that makes him appear like a lonely man without anything to live for. Later in the film, he becomes good friends with Red (another inmate) and we see their relationship develop over the rest of the film.

Andy is by far one of my favourite characters in film. He shows emotion so easily through so little dialogue however, this may not be his character but the beyond impressive acting of Robbins. The character is also secretly very intelligent which I think is a really good trait and a good idea because it means that he can do anything off the storyline and when it is introduced to the audience, it is beieveable.