| Ginny Field | |
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| Friday the 13th character | |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Amy_Steel_portraying_Ginny_Field.jpeg) Steel portraying Ginny | |
| First appearance | Friday the 13th Part 2 |
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| Portrayed by | Amy Steel |
| In-universe information | |
| Full name | Virginia "Ginny" Field |
| Occupation | Camp counselor (former) Psychologist |
| Status | Alive |
Ginny Field is a fictional character in the Friday the 13th series. She first appears in Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) as a child psychology student working as a camp counselor assistant trainer, in which she was portrayed by Amy Steel. Writer Ron Kurtz conceptualized the character, while director Steve Miner intended to utilize Ginny to carry further installments as the main protagonist. Ginny has subsequently seen representation in other media such as novels and fan labor.
Steel got the part after moving from Florida to New York to begin a career in both modeling and acting. She got called in for an audition for Ginny and described it as typecasting. Steel was asked by director Steve Miner if she would be willing to return for the sequel, and she declined. Ginny's confrontation with the villain Jason Voorhees (Steve Dash) and her nightmare sequence of the character have been deemed iconic. Film scholar Carol J. Clover cited Ginny among the original examples of the "final girl" theory developed in her 1992 nonfiction book Men, Women, and Chainsaws.