15 Best Ginger Characters In TV
Let's give the redheads some time in the sun - not for too long though, don't want to get burnt.
It's essential when creating a TV show to make sure that your characters are relatable and easy for the audience to identify with, as doing so can help them to become more engrossed into the the series. This is important as an audience member needs to be able to believe that these characters could exist in the real world, to further their immersion into the show's universe.
Because of this, it is not difficult to see why there may be so few ginger characters on TV. People with red hair make up roughly 1% of the population, and since there are so few ginger people in the world itself, it seems fitting that TV shows wouldn't have an abundance of them.
Despite this, we have known some wonderful characters who bare the red hair in both live-action and cartoon form. Many of these individuals went on to become iconic, which can be attributed in no small part down to the fact that since ginger hair is not as common, it stands out amongst the crowd.
Since WhatCulture itself has plenty of orange-haired contributors, it's time that we talk about TV's ginger icons.
15. Ash - Black Mirror
There has been plenty said about Black Mirror. Charlie Brooker's fascinating look at our connection with technology has brought about many questions, and few answers as to how we should view our relationship to the systems that primarily run our world.
In the first episode of the second season of this show, we were introduced to Dohmnall Gleeson's Ash. Ash is instantly shown to be a likeable person, with quite an attachment to his phone. Tragically he dies in a road collision, and the episode moves on to focus on to how his partner (played by Hayley Atwell) deals with losing him.
The content of the episode gets very dark, and Dohmnall delivers a fantastic performance, walking the line between likability and the uncanny. The connection between himself and Hayley's character is what drives the episode through to such success.
Being that Dohmnall is one of the most famous ginger actors in the industry, he had to appear in this article.