Jason — Friday the 13th Character Profile

Jason appears in 11 titles

• Friday the 13th (1980)
• Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) — character page
• Friday the 13th Part III (1982) — character page
• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) — character page
• Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI (1986) — character page
• Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood (1988) — character page
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) — character page
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) — character page
• Jason X (2001) — character page
• Freddy vs. Jason (2003) — character page
• Friday the 13th (2009) — character page

Character Facts

Played by

Ari Lehman

Appears in

Friday the 13th (1980)

Role

Minor

Relationships (2)

• Jason — Family Mother — Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer)

  Mrs. Voorhees is Jason's grieving and vengeful mother.

  Mrs. Voorhees reveals that Jason was her son and that his drowning in 1957 began her motive for revenge.

• Jason — Narrative Supernatural Threat — Alice (Adrienne King)

  Jason appears as a final unexplained threat after Mrs. Voorhees's death.

  After Alice falls asleep in a canoe, Jason's decomposing corpse emerges from the lake and drags her underwater.

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