His novels often treated his subject matter in a dark fashion, with his central characters depicted as brooding, depressed, or disturbed characters.

Located partly in America and partly in Rupert Thomson's fertile imagination, the place is crawling with funeral parlours and peopled by characters each more disturbed than the last.

He has studied and worked with manipulators and other disturbed characters and their victims for many years.

In Marutirtha Hinglaj (1959), he essayed a mentally disturbed character.

In the beginning of the series, she seems fairly normal, but as it develops she is revealed to be a quite disturbed character.

Michael Mercurio (born January 8, 1972) is an American actor who has appeared in film, theatre, and television, often portraying psychologically disturbed characters.

Comedians can still make crude jokes about stutterers; novelists portray disturbed characters as stuttering.

She also has a recurring role on the soap opera Passions, playing the disturbed character of Norma Bates.

Similarly, Yuen Biao plays an eccentric and possibly mentally disturbed character, rather than the underdog character fans were used to.

Through the war movies Stalingrad and Hasenjagd aka The Quality of Mercy he discovered his fondness and ability to play emotional disturbed and volatile characters.