Ginger Fitzgerald is a fictional character and the anti-villain of the Ginger Snaps trilogy. She is the sister of Brigitte Fitzgerald. Ginger was portrayed by Katharine Isabelle^[1] while her werewolf form is performed by Nick Nolan.

The character is a goth teen who harbors an obsession with death and loathes the transition to adulthood, even making a pact with her sister to move out of their suburb or to commit suicide by the age of 16.^[5] Author Steffen Hantke^[6] describes Fitzgerald as having a "dark wit" and a "righteous social fury".

Casting took place in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Isabelle auditioned on the same day as Perkins at their agency in Vancouver, reading to one another off-camera. Screenwriter Karen Walton said they were exactly as she had pictured the characters when their taped auditions had arrived.^[7]

Susan S., a contributor to What Culture, wrote: "Obsessed with death and morbidity, and afraid of adulthood, Ginger Fitzgerald, portrayed by Katharine Isabelle of American Mary fame, only gets worse when she's bitten by a lycanthrope and the transformation into a wolf begins. She gradually becomes aggressive and over-sexualised, loses her relationship with her sister, grows pointy teeth and sprouts hair in really weird places. She even grows a tail which she actually attempts to cut off. It takes a big set of cojones to try to cut off any body part. Ultimately though, the film is interesting because it examines the dichotomy between Ginger's humanity and her animalistic side".^[8]

Jessica Roakes of The Toast also mentions the metaphorical nature of the character: "Ginger's body has betrayed her by menstruating. This is a key tenant of the body-horror genre—the monstrous comes not just from the outside, but from within the human body, from infection or perversion or unwanted biological functions. In Ginger's case, it is her metamorphosis from girl to woman that renders her monstrous".^[9]