Sean Cameron
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Sean Cameron is a fictional high schooler
on the television show Degrassi: The Next Generation
. He is portrayed by Daniel Clark
. He left the show in season four, but returned for season six..
The Sean & Emma relationship is sparked again leading up to the wedding between Spike & Snake. Manny wants to invite Sean to the wedding even after Emma insists her relationship with Sean is over. After a long thought process, Emma puts her objections aside and ends up inviting Sean herself when she realizes she still has feelings for him. They share their first kiss at the reception. Their relationship hits a complication when Sean starts drinking to make himself relax around Emma's family. Despite feeling inferior to her, and ruining a budding friendship with Jimmy, Sean ultimately learns that he isn't a failure and doesn't need alcohol. Emma continues dating Sean.
look and attitude. He also shows an interest in cars and auto shop. Things get very slow between Emma and Sean while Emma is deals with her parents' new baby as well as Snake's cancer. Sean witnesses Jay Hogart
, Towerz and Jay's girlfriend, Alex breaking into a vending machine at school and stealing candy. This incidentally gives Sean an urge to bring back his old bad ways. After Jay "mad dogs" him in auto shop class, Mr. Raditch pulls him out of class and interrogates him about the theft from the vending machine. Sean then attacks Jay in the front of the school and the two fight. Sean later falls in Jay's gang, and after a fight with Emma, he steals Mr. Simpson's new laptop to get back at her. At Jay's expense, Sean breaks up with Emma.
Over the next few months of the ninth grade, Sean and the gang display notorious behavior such as getting in fights, stealing and partying.
While Emma recovers from the breakup, focusing on Sean doesn't help her; She notices Sean with a hicky on his neck, obvious that Sean was meeting new girls. Sean gets a new girlfriend named Amy, and after Emma sees the two in math class making out, she becomes more jealous. Emma also notices a DVD player missing from school and hears rumors around school that Jay and Sean are stealing items from school. While on a date with Chris Sharpe, she sees the gang steal candy from the Dot. Jay asks her why she is in everyone's business and he implies that they stole the laptop so Emma tries to get Sean in trouble by getting Mr. Raditch to search Jay's car. While this was a failed attempt, Sean did end up with two months of Saturday detentions for telling Raditch to "go to hell".
Sean and Ellie start dating due to them trusting each other with secrets (Sean stealing from school; Ellie's cutting scars). While on a date with Sean, Ellie brings along her best friend Marco, who is gay, and during the date Sean keeps his distance from Marco. Ellie believes Sean is homophobic, and after Sean physically pushes Marco away at lunch, Ellie thinks about dumping him, but Marco thinks that she is taking it too seriously. Ellie approaches Sean, who thinks that the relationship is over, and tells him that she wants to start over. He tells her that he doesn't hate Marco because he is gay, he just wanted to spend time alone with her and is not homophobic. The two then kiss and start over.
Their relationship is tested again when Tracker gets a job in Alberta
and wants Sean to move with him; Sean doesn't want to move because he would have to repeat the ninth grade and had already repeated the seventh grade. With the help of a teacher, he is able to stay at school by going on student welfare. He almost loses it when Jay starts to use his apartment to throw wild parties. After Amy gets alcohol poisoning, Sean, with the help of Ellie, finally put a stop to the parties. He also admits to Snake that he stole Snake's laptop. Snake, initially hurt, eventually forgives him when Sean offers to fix his broken car for free in labor to make up for his past behavior. The ninth grade ends with Sean in a better place than he was in the previous months. He ends up realizing his wrong doing.
Sean's life changes when Rick Murray returns to Degrassi with a gun to gain revenge on those that have mocked him. He shoots Jimmy and runs into Sean, Emma and Toby. He blames Emma for pretending to like him for his actions. Sean tries to talk him out of pulling the trigger, but Rick still has it squared at Emma. Sean and Rick fight briefly and the gun goes off. Rick is killed, and Sean is declared a hero.
All of Degrassi struggles with the shooting. Sean can't handle being treated like a hero, and mocks the emotions on display. He learns that a reporter has interviewed his estranged parents, and he becomes angry. He and his parents haven't spoken in a long time, and Sean decides to finally confront his past. He, along with Jay, Emma and Ellie drive to Wasaga Beach. Sean meets his parents and the boy that he deafened years before. Tyler, the boy, mocks Sean's involvement in Rick's death, but in the end, the two reach an understanding that the past is the past. Sean also makes up with his parents, leading him to stay and work on his relationship with them. He tearfully says goodbye to Jay and Emma, and "I love you" to Ellie, who is hurt that Sean isn't returning. Sean stays in Wasaga and doesn't return for almost two years.
Sean is thrown in prison and is miserable, even being jumped by an inmate in the chow line, leaving him physically scarred. Emma ends up breaking up with Peter to be with Sean, when she realizes that he set up Sean in the first place.
Sean is released and stays with the Nelson family. He learns that Emma and Jay hooked up while he was gone, which he struggles with. Emma helps him realize that no one is perfect and that's fine. Soon after, Emma decides to take the next step with Sean. On the night that they had hoped to go for it, Manny convinces them to throw a party. It's at that party that J.T. is killed by students from Lakehurst.
Sean mourns the death of J.T. with Emma, Manny, Toby and Liberty. He helps lead a protest of Lakehurst during an inter-school cheerleading competition. He also denounces Manny when she starts seeing Lakehurst student Damian Hayes.
Sean decides that to accomplish anything in his life, he needs to get himself in order and enlists in the army. It presents a problem when Emma believes she might be pregnant. Though a false alarm, Sean still leaves Degrassi at the end of the first semester, but he and Emma keep their relationship intact.
. He knows that he and Emma are no longer close, and doesn't resent that. Snake had spent his suspension from school primarily lounging, and Sean offers to train him, and when the training begins, Sean has Snake do all the work out in the army, this pushes Snake too hard, he then says "Thats as much stress relief as one teacher can take", Sean then begins screaming at him "What are you weak?! You can't fake this, you got to do again, again and again until your perfect or you will die! Is that what you want?!". Snake chases after Sean when the young man runs out of the gym. Sean tells him he is scared of going to war. Snake comforts him in this, and Sean tells him that he is a good teacher. Snake replies by saying he had a lot of practice on a kid who hated teachers, but was pretty good at gym. Sean tearfully replies "Do you think he turned out okay?"
Sean takes a new picture with him and Emma in the morning just before he leaves to ship out(feeling that spark between them still), which left him feeling satisfied.
Fictional character
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on the television show Degrassi: The Next Generation
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. Degrassi is the fourth fictional series in the Degrassi franchise, and follows The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, and...
. He is portrayed by Daniel Clark
Daniel Clark (actor)
Daniel Allen Clark is a American-Canadian actor and singer. Clark is best known for his role as Sean Cameron on Degrassi: The Next Generation and as Steve Rendazo on the movie Juno.-Personal life:...
. He left the show in season four, but returned for season six..
Personality
Sean is the token bad boy at the school. His reputation in the first season is just that due to a fight in Wasaga Beach where he deafened another kid by sucker punching him in one ear. His parents were drunks in Wasaga and he was known to be a juvenile delinquent there. His attitude is mostly considered anti-social, due to his constant way of starting fights or to be reckless. However, he is sincere and loyal to his friends.Season 1
Sean Cameron starts out his second year of seventh grade late and as a bad boy. He gains this rep due to a fight where he sucker punched a guy in his ear causing him to turn deaf. He starts having feelings for good-girl Emma Nelson and befriends Emma's friends to gain a closer relationship with her. Unaware of his delinquent past, Emma decides to say yes to Sean's dinner date proposal. The date doesn't go so well, but Sean is convinced that his feelings for Emma are true so they sort of make there relationship official anyway. Two episodes later,a fight ensues with Jimmy and Sean which Emma gets in the middle of. This leads Emma to break it off with Sean.Season 2
Sean befriends new student Craig Manning, and along with Emma, helps Craig to get out of his abusive home. Sean struggles to move on from Emma, and briefly considers dating Ashley. They don't when Sean realizes that Ashley is more concerned what others think than doing what she wants to.The Sean & Emma relationship is sparked again leading up to the wedding between Spike & Snake. Manny wants to invite Sean to the wedding even after Emma insists her relationship with Sean is over. After a long thought process, Emma puts her objections aside and ends up inviting Sean herself when she realizes she still has feelings for him. They share their first kiss at the reception. Their relationship hits a complication when Sean starts drinking to make himself relax around Emma's family. Despite feeling inferior to her, and ruining a budding friendship with Jimmy, Sean ultimately learns that he isn't a failure and doesn't need alcohol. Emma continues dating Sean.
Season 3
Sean starts the ninth grade at Degrassi with a new gangstaGangsta
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look and attitude. He also shows an interest in cars and auto shop. Things get very slow between Emma and Sean while Emma is deals with her parents' new baby as well as Snake's cancer. Sean witnesses Jay Hogart
Jay Hogart
Jason "Jay" Hogart, played by Mike Lobel, is a fictional character on Degrassi: The Next Generation. He is usually portrayed as the school bully and bad boy, but later throughout the series he displays instances of conscience that make him more of an anti-hero...
, Towerz and Jay's girlfriend, Alex breaking into a vending machine at school and stealing candy. This incidentally gives Sean an urge to bring back his old bad ways. After Jay "mad dogs" him in auto shop class, Mr. Raditch pulls him out of class and interrogates him about the theft from the vending machine. Sean then attacks Jay in the front of the school and the two fight. Sean later falls in Jay's gang, and after a fight with Emma, he steals Mr. Simpson's new laptop to get back at her. At Jay's expense, Sean breaks up with Emma.
Over the next few months of the ninth grade, Sean and the gang display notorious behavior such as getting in fights, stealing and partying.
While Emma recovers from the breakup, focusing on Sean doesn't help her; She notices Sean with a hicky on his neck, obvious that Sean was meeting new girls. Sean gets a new girlfriend named Amy, and after Emma sees the two in math class making out, she becomes more jealous. Emma also notices a DVD player missing from school and hears rumors around school that Jay and Sean are stealing items from school. While on a date with Chris Sharpe, she sees the gang steal candy from the Dot. Jay asks her why she is in everyone's business and he implies that they stole the laptop so Emma tries to get Sean in trouble by getting Mr. Raditch to search Jay's car. While this was a failed attempt, Sean did end up with two months of Saturday detentions for telling Raditch to "go to hell".
Sean and Ellie start dating due to them trusting each other with secrets (Sean stealing from school; Ellie's cutting scars). While on a date with Sean, Ellie brings along her best friend Marco, who is gay, and during the date Sean keeps his distance from Marco. Ellie believes Sean is homophobic, and after Sean physically pushes Marco away at lunch, Ellie thinks about dumping him, but Marco thinks that she is taking it too seriously. Ellie approaches Sean, who thinks that the relationship is over, and tells him that she wants to start over. He tells her that he doesn't hate Marco because he is gay, he just wanted to spend time alone with her and is not homophobic. The two then kiss and start over.
Their relationship is tested again when Tracker gets a job in Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
and wants Sean to move with him; Sean doesn't want to move because he would have to repeat the ninth grade and had already repeated the seventh grade. With the help of a teacher, he is able to stay at school by going on student welfare. He almost loses it when Jay starts to use his apartment to throw wild parties. After Amy gets alcohol poisoning, Sean, with the help of Ellie, finally put a stop to the parties. He also admits to Snake that he stole Snake's laptop. Snake, initially hurt, eventually forgives him when Sean offers to fix his broken car for free in labor to make up for his past behavior. The ninth grade ends with Sean in a better place than he was in the previous months. He ends up realizing his wrong doing.
Season 4
When the tenth grade begins, Sean and Ellie remain close. Ellie starts staying at his house more with her alcoholic mother on the warpath. Sean stands up to Mrs. Nash, and Ellie is allowed to move into Sean's place.Sean's life changes when Rick Murray returns to Degrassi with a gun to gain revenge on those that have mocked him. He shoots Jimmy and runs into Sean, Emma and Toby. He blames Emma for pretending to like him for his actions. Sean tries to talk him out of pulling the trigger, but Rick still has it squared at Emma. Sean and Rick fight briefly and the gun goes off. Rick is killed, and Sean is declared a hero.
All of Degrassi struggles with the shooting. Sean can't handle being treated like a hero, and mocks the emotions on display. He learns that a reporter has interviewed his estranged parents, and he becomes angry. He and his parents haven't spoken in a long time, and Sean decides to finally confront his past. He, along with Jay, Emma and Ellie drive to Wasaga Beach. Sean meets his parents and the boy that he deafened years before. Tyler, the boy, mocks Sean's involvement in Rick's death, but in the end, the two reach an understanding that the past is the past. Sean also makes up with his parents, leading him to stay and work on his relationship with them. He tearfully says goodbye to Jay and Emma, and "I love you" to Ellie, who is hurt that Sean isn't returning. Sean stays in Wasaga and doesn't return for almost two years.
Season 6
Sean returns to Degrassi, unexpectedly. He moves in with Jay with new plans for his life to get his diploma and open up his own car shop called Cameron's Custom Cars. He begins to street race with Jay. With Peter dating Emma now, Sean begins to hang out a little with Peter and help him mod his new car that Peter got for his birthday. After Peter races Jay, the police come, but everyone runs from the scene, and Sean and Emma run away together in Sean's car, they then have old feelings rush back and the two kiss. Peter then realizes that Emma has feelings for Sean after Emma breaks up with him. The next day, Ms. Hatzilakos pulls Sean out of class to search his locker and she finds marijuana which was planted by Peter. Sean instantly realizes that Peter is the one who planted the drugs, so he challenges Peter to a street race. During the race, Sean hits a jogger on the sidewalk and calls the cops. Sean realizes because of his age, he will serve hard time in prison for manslaughter. He runs away, but after seeing Emma, she tells him she can't care about him anymore. Sean then turns himself in with tears in his eyes.Sean is thrown in prison and is miserable, even being jumped by an inmate in the chow line, leaving him physically scarred. Emma ends up breaking up with Peter to be with Sean, when she realizes that he set up Sean in the first place.
Sean is released and stays with the Nelson family. He learns that Emma and Jay hooked up while he was gone, which he struggles with. Emma helps him realize that no one is perfect and that's fine. Soon after, Emma decides to take the next step with Sean. On the night that they had hoped to go for it, Manny convinces them to throw a party. It's at that party that J.T. is killed by students from Lakehurst.
Sean mourns the death of J.T. with Emma, Manny, Toby and Liberty. He helps lead a protest of Lakehurst during an inter-school cheerleading competition. He also denounces Manny when she starts seeing Lakehurst student Damian Hayes.
Sean decides that to accomplish anything in his life, he needs to get himself in order and enlists in the army. It presents a problem when Emma believes she might be pregnant. Though a false alarm, Sean still leaves Degrassi at the end of the first semester, but he and Emma keep their relationship intact.
Season 7
Sean returns briefly on leave from the ArmyCanadian Forces Land Force Command
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. He knows that he and Emma are no longer close, and doesn't resent that. Snake had spent his suspension from school primarily lounging, and Sean offers to train him, and when the training begins, Sean has Snake do all the work out in the army, this pushes Snake too hard, he then says "Thats as much stress relief as one teacher can take", Sean then begins screaming at him "What are you weak?! You can't fake this, you got to do again, again and again until your perfect or you will die! Is that what you want?!". Snake chases after Sean when the young man runs out of the gym. Sean tells him he is scared of going to war. Snake comforts him in this, and Sean tells him that he is a good teacher. Snake replies by saying he had a lot of practice on a kid who hated teachers, but was pretty good at gym. Sean tearfully replies "Do you think he turned out okay?"
Sean takes a new picture with him and Emma in the morning just before he leaves to ship out(feeling that spark between them still), which left him feeling satisfied.