Phase Zero
Characters

Frances Barrison / Shriek

Shriek

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A woman locked away since childhood for a scream that can knock down a wall, and the one person Cletus Kasady loves.

Frances Barrison, called Shriek, is Cletus Kasady’s lover and can produce sonic screams. Andy Serkis described her as a damaged soul who has spent her life in isolation, with a dark side to her. Olumide Olorunfemi plays her as a child.

The film’s best idea is that her power and Carnage’s are incompatible: sound hurts symbiotes, so the love story is built to destroy itself. It is a neater piece of construction than the rest of the film manages.

Show detailsOne appearance

She appears only in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, in the Sony universe rather than the connected one.

Played by
Naomie Harris, Olumide Olorunfemi
Role
Prisoner at Ravencroft
Affiliation
Cletus Kasady
What they can do
Sonic screams, which happen to be the one thing a symbiote cannot stand.

The journey

What happens to this person, title by title.

  1. Venom: Let There Be Carnage2021

    Broken out after a lifetime inside, reunited with the man she grew up next to, and undone by what he became.

Appears in

  1. Venom: Let There Be Carnage2021

Sources

Facts last checked on Sep 10, 2026