List of fictional characters with bipolar disorder

Fictional characters who exhibit and/or have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Film

Year	Character	Actor(s)	Film	Director	Notes
2008	Maria Elena	Penélope Cruz	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Woody Allen	Not diagnosed in film, but exhibits drastic mood swings consistent with mania and depression.[1]
2012	Patrizio "Pat" Solitano Jr.	Bradley Cooper	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell	[2]
2014	Cam Stuart	Mark Ruffalo	Infinitely Polar Bear	Maya Forbes	The film is based on the filmmaker's life with her bipolar father.

Television

Year	Character	Actor(s)	Series
1955	Dame Edna Everage[3]	Barry Humphries	Various stage and television productions
1971	Maude Findlay[4]	Bea Arthur	All in the Family/Maude
1982	Cass Winthrop[citation needed]	Stephen Schnetzer	Another World
1986	Jimmy Corkhill[5]	Dean Sullivan	Brookside
1992	Silver[6]	April Peterson, Arielle Peterson, Ryanne Kastner, Megan Lee Braley, Mercedes Kastner and Jessica Stroup	Beverly Hills, 90210/90210
1993	Sonny Corinthos[7]	Maurice Benard	General Hospital
1994	Sharon Newman[8]	Monica Potter, Heidi Mark and Sharon Case	The Young and the Restless
1995	Cindy Cunningham[9]	Laura Crossley and Stephanie Waring	Hollyoaks
1997	Kahn Soupanousinphone	Toby Huss	King of the Hill
2003	Morgan Corinthos[7]	Isador Talamo, Adonios Talamo, Jordan Cline, Dylan Cline, George Juarez, Aaron Refvem, Aaron Sanders and Bryan Craig	General Hospital
2004	Ian Gallagher[10]	Gerard Kearns	Shameless UK[11]
	Karen Maguire[12]	Rebecca Atkinson
2004	Jean Slater[13]	Gillian Wright	EastEnders
	Stacey Slater[14]	Lacey Turner
2006	Pamela Douglas[citation needed]	Alley Mills	The Bold and the Beautiful
2008	Samantha Fitzgerald[15]	Simone Buchanan	Neighbours
2009	Juan Alvarez [16]	Lin-Manuel Miranda	House
2010	Eli Goldsworthy[17]	Munro Chambers	Degrassi: The Next Generation
2011	Carrie Mathison[18]	Claire Danes	Homeland
2011	Ian Gallagher Monica Gallagher	Cameron Monaghan Chloe Webb	Shameless US
2012	Marta Del Sol[19]	Leonor Varela	Dallas
2013	Rose/Mum[citation needed]	Debra Lawrence	Please Like Me
2013	Aurora de Martel	Rebecca Breeds	The Originals
2013	Zosia March[citation needed]	Camila Arfwedson	Holby City
2016	Even Bech Næsheim[citation needed]	Henrik Holm	Skam
2017	Alfred Nyssen	Lars Eidinger	Babylon Berlin
2018	Lizzie Saltzman	Jenny Boyd	Legacies
2019	Eliott Demaury	Maxence Danet-Fauvel	Skam France
2019	Sander Driesen	Willem De Schryver	WTfock
2019	Rue Bennett	Zendaya	Euphoria
2019	Vincent "Vinnie" O'Neill	Joe Gilgun	Brassic
2019	Andrew Deluca	Giacomo Gianniotti	Grey's Anatomy
2019	Hal Jackson[citation needed]	Joe Tippett	The Morning Show
2019	Maria Salazar	Maria Gabriela de Faría	Deadly Class
2020	Kat Baker Carol Baker	Kaya Scodelario January Jones	Spinning Out
2020	GaTa	GaTa as himself	Dave
2020	Ben Davis[20]	Tom Pelphrey	Ozark
2024	Oh Ri-na	Jung Woon-sun	Daily Dose of Sunshine

Comics

Year	Character	Series/Franchise	Author/Publisher
1939	Namor[citation needed]	Invaders	Marvel Comics
1942	Two-Face[citation needed]	Batman	DC Comics
1960	Multi-Man[citation needed]	Challengers of the Unknown
1962	Hank Pym[21]	Ant-Man	Marvel Comics
1962	Will Magnus[citation needed]	Showcase	DC Comics
1963	Doctor Polaris (Neal Emerson)[citation needed]	Green Lantern
1963	Magneto[citation needed]	X-Men	Marvel Comics
1964	Green Goblin (Norman Osborn)[22]	Spider-Man
1966	Mimic[23]	X-Men
1966	Peacemaker[citation needed]	Checkmate	DC Comics
1968	Polaris[citation needed]	X-Men	Marvel Comics
1978	Count Vertigo[citation needed]	Black Canary/Green Arrow	DC Comics
2001	Alexander Nero[citation needed]	Green Lantern
2019	Wasp (Nadia van Dyne)[24]	The Unstoppable Wasp	Marvel Comics

Literature

Year	Character	Book	Author	Notes
1987	Annie Wilkes[citation needed]	Misery	Stephen King	Also appears in the 1990 film adaptation.
2011	Leonard Bankhead[citation needed]	The Marriage Plot	Jeffrey Eugenides	The book's plot is heavily driven by Leonard's mental illness.
2015	Theodore Finch[citation needed]	All the Bright Places	Jennifer Niven	Also appears in the 2020 film adaptation.
1962	Esther Greenwood	The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath	Character's struggles with depression were based on the ones that the author experienced herself.
1999	Marigold Westward	The Illustrated Mum	Jacqueline Wilson	Also appears in the 2003 TV film adaptation.

Video Games

Year	Character	Actor(s)	Game	Developer	Notes
2010	Alan Wake	Ilkka Villi, Matthew Porretta	Alan Wake, Alan Wake 2	Remedy Entertainment	Alan describes himself as manic-depressive in the manuscript page Barry's Struggles With Artists in Alan Wake 2.[25]
2017	Gregg Lee	No voice acting	Night in the Woods	Finji	Implied by the story and his characteristics to be bipolar. Also suggested by the character Bea in the game. [26]

See also

• List of fictional characters with disabilities