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An Incomplete Listing of Fictional Characters with Epilepsy and Seizures

@seaglassdinosaur requested a list of fictional characters with epilepsy and seizures. I couldn’t find one particular list on the Internet beyond the Wikipedia article so I complied my own list. The characters here will not all be positive depictions of the epilepsy experience, but they are representation regardless.

Literature:

Adult Literature

Antonio (Three O'Clock in the Morning)

Arthur (Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon) (Unspecified Seizure Disorder)

Carmen Sternwood (The Big Sleep)

Evan Wallace (How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets)

FitzChivalry Farseer (Realm of the Elderlings series)

Isaac Hammoudeh (Mis(h)adra) (graphic novel)

Keziah Montgomery (Engraved on the Heart)

Lizzie Molyneux (The Dare)

Mary (The Florist’s Daughter)

Miles Vorkosigan (The Vorkosigan Saga)

Molly Volkova (Molly Falls To Earth)

Oscar Dubourg (Poor Miss Finch)

Othello (Othello)

Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov (The Brothers Karamazov)

Peter Leavitt (The Andromeda Strain)

Prince Myshkin (The Idiot)

Robert “Sweetrobin” Arryn (A Song of Ice and Fire series)

Silas Marner (Silas Marner) (Catalepsy, which is different from epilepsy but still includes seizures and can be a symptom of epilepsy)

Sophie (We are Satellites)

Toby Withers (Owls Do Cry & The Edge of the Alphabet)

Youth Literature (Teen and Children)

Alex Woods (The Universe Verses Alex Woods)

Annemarie (When You Reach Me)

Duncan MacDonald (Prince Across the Water)

Emma Cooper (Throat)

Finn Easton (100 Sideways Miles)

Jake (Takedown)

Leilani Milton (The Islands at the End of the World series)

Meena Zee (Meena Meets Her Match)

Monks (Oliver Twist)

Ollie Paulot (Because You’ll Never Meet Me)

Pepper Al-Yusef (The Arsonist)

Percy Newton (The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue)

Pippa (Gemma Doyle Trilogy)

Sven Beekman (Talking to Alaska)

Thom Creed (Hero) (Unspecified Seizure Disorder)

Will Thorpe (The Quarantine Series)

Zane Guesswind (Zane’s Trace)

Film:

Movies

Angie (The Sacred Disease)

Bagi (Khadak)

Dave O'Hara (Wide Awake (1998))

Esteban Espinosa (El Aura)

Ivy (The Exploding Girl)

Jackson Briggs (Dog (2022)) (Unspecified Seizure Disorder)

James Wayland (Deceiver)

Kinji Kameda (The Idiot (1951))

Kiri (Avatar: The Way of Water) (Diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy, film leaves it unclear if it’s supernatural)

Lily O’Connor (Electricity)

Michaela Klingler (Requiem)

Penelope Stamp (The Brothers Bloom)

Robbie Reimuller (...First Do No Harm)

Ruth (Fast Color) (Unspecified Seizure Disorder)

Ruth Hunsdorfer (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds)

Ruth Leavitt (The Andromeda Strain (1971))

Sam (Garden State)

Sam (Under the Lights)

Teresa Ronchelli (Mean Streets)

Television

Anežka Archuletta (Jane the Virgin)

Ashley Thomas (Emmerdale)

Caitlin Ryan (Degrassi)

David Platt (Coronation Street)

Erica Reyes (Teen Wolf)

Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn (Sailor Moon) (Unspecified Seizure Disorder; Magically cured during the series run)

Karen (Diff’rent Strokes) (only appears in one episode)

Leslie Cook (One Day at a Time (1975)) (only appears in one episode)

Nancy Carter (EastEnders)

Pearl Gallagher (Diff’rent Strokes)

Reverend Smith (Deadwood)

Roger Barner (Naked City episode: “Portrait of a Painter”)

Steph Cunningham (Hollyoaks)

Tsi Chou (The Andromeda Strain (2008))

Victor Newman (The Young and the Restless)

Will Graham (Hannibal) (seizures as a symptom of encephalitis)

Video Games

Ruben Victoriano/Ruvik (The Evil Within)

Note: This list is incomplete due to both the vast scope of this description (a lot of characters have seizures when, for example, being possessed or experiencing visions and I’m unsure whether to count them or not.) and the limitations I have with media as someone who only speaks english.

Also: If you know of any epileptic characters or characters who have had seizures that I missed, please let me know!