Gale Weathers

Gale Weathers is a fictional character of the Scream series. The character was created by Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven and is portrayed by Friends star Courteney Cox. She first appeared in Scream (1996), followed by three sequels: Scream 2 (1997), Scream 3 (2000) and Scream 4 (2011). The character appears in the Scream films as an ambitious, strong-willed journalist and writer who is initially built up as an antagonist, but ultimately joins forces with Sidney Prescott and Dewey Riley in order to investigate and stop the Ghostface murders.

Cox was nominated for three awards for her work as Gale Weathers and won a Teen Choice Award for Film – Choice Chemistry shared with David Arquette.

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Gale Weathers is a news reporter for Top Story and author of The Woodsboro Murders. Gale has been punched by Sidney Prescott multiple times. Courteney Cox describes her character as "a very strong willed, manipulative woman who just wants to make it and wants to be the best and biggest at what she is, which is a newscaster." Gale has had many encounters with Ghostface, in one of her encounters she and Dewey are kissing and a video comes on of Ghostface's past murder victims and then it shows Gale and Dewey. Dewey runs to Ghostface to stop him and Gale runs into a recording room and sees Dewey get stabbed, but escapes. Gale was portrayed by Jennifer Jolie in the Stab film franchise, Jennifer Jolie ends up dying because of the order of deaths in Stab. Gale was shot in the auditorium at Sidney's college. Gale has a very complex relationship with Dewey Riley whom later marries her.