About Me
Francine Parker (played by Gaylen Ross) is a fictional character from the second of George A. Romero's living dead films, Dawn of the Dead. She is a TV news technician with WGON television. Unlike Night of the Living Dead, where the primary female character was catatonic for most of the movie, Francine is more independent and assertive, demanding to learn necessary survival skills following a narrow escape from death.
As the entire world is struck by a plague which causes the dead to reanimate with the primary instinct to feast on the flesh of the living, Francine works at the WGON television studio in Philadelphia. Her boyfriend, Stephen, plans to sneak out and steal the studio's traffic helicopter to escape the zombie threat. Francine and Stephen sneak out and meet two other survivors, Peter and Roger. The four escape in a helicopter, fleeing the city with the intention of reaching the safety of the Canadian wilderness.
Following close calls while stopping for fuel, the group comes across a shopping mall which becomes their own private sanctuary. The four hide from the zombies in an apartment in the upstairs of the mall. While Peter, Roger and Stephen are getting food from the shops, one zombie, a Hare Krisha, found the staircase to the room where they were hiding. While Francine hides in the room, the Hare Krisha came up the stairway. Francine tries to block the door with boxes to no avail. Peter, Roger and Stephen come back in time to shoot the Hare Krisha.
Peter and Roger block the large glass doors with trucks to keep the undead out. It is during this operation that the impulsive Roger becomes reckless and is bitten, dooming him to death. After clearing the mall of its zombie inhabitants, the four settle in, each indulging their every material desire. Eventually dying from his wounds, Roger is shot by Peter as he begins to reanimate.
Months pass and Francine is learning how to fly a helicopter and is also roughly four months pregnant with Stephen's baby. However one night, a gang of bikers breaks into the mall and in the process, let in hundreds of the zombies.
During the plunder, Stephen foolishly initiates a battle with the bikers. In the end, the victors in the chaos that ensues are the ravenous zombies, who feast upon many of the bikers, while Stephen dies from wounds inflicted by the them. When the bikers retreat from the mall as the zombies become too numerous, Stephen reanimates as a zombie. Upon Stephen's reanimation, he leads a large group of the creatures to Francine and Peter, who await Stephen's return. After killing Stephen, Peter and Francine escape to the roof — and to an uncertain future as they fly away in the partially-fueled helicopter.
-In the remake Dawn of the Dead there is a clothing store named after Gaylen Ross
from wikipedia.org
