Anna Hayes

-Alabama.

-Annie belle.

-Trailer park trash.

**Anna "Annie" Hayes** is the main protagonist of *Too Close to Home*. Anna is the middle daughter of Jolene Hayes and the younger sister of Bonnie and older sister of Shelby. Portrayed by Danielle Savre.

## Biography

### Season 1

She is first introduced at a bar sort of situation where she talks about her parents being aboard, she is pushed into a man and Valerie takes a photo of her with this man, she quickly storms out of the place and goes back to her apartment where she sees valarie and dex in the back of a taxi talking to her, this is intrupted by JB coming to confront her about contributing no money to her family back in Happy. Valarie and Dex misinterpret this as a relationship or sexual partner that didn’t want her to see with another man. After valarie and dex leave JB continues to ask her for money claiming she’s living well, questioning why she can’t give any money, she dismisses him with claims of student debt, Jb grabs her arm in anger, she repeatedly tells him to let go until a secret service man tells him to let go, Anna claiming it’s her neighbour. When she gets back into her apartment she receives a call from a man who is upset about the photo that valarie posted, she apologies and he hangs up. The next day in the oval she is expected to tell the president the name of the person he is with, Anna’s phone rings distracting her from the cue and she misses it which frustrates the president, she comes back into his office to apologise and he reprimands her telling her how embarrassed her was by her mistake and she needs to work harder if she wants to keep her job in the social service of the White House as many people would love her job. The presidents wife asks why he was being so harsh on her and he said “they have to learn”. After she comes back at a later hour to make sure he wasn’t upset, She then went on to have sex with President Thomas Christian which cause the president to have a heart attack, she quickly calls for help where the presidents wife is outside the door and quickly puts together that she was having sex with him. she is blamed by the First Lady for this and she comes to Anna’s appartment and tells her about how stupid she is and how she will not walk about without consequences for this incident. The First Lady then gets some people to come in and take her stuff saying that none of the stuff is hers, then she kicks her out of the apartment leaving her no where to go and with nothing but what she’s wearing and her wallet. Anna goes to the bar and tells valarie and she is quickly mad and doesn’t want anything to do with her. Anna goes to dex and victors apartment, and valarie is mad but dex wants to hear her out, she asks to stay, dex refuses, victor offers her to stay but dex says no, she then asks for money because she has no where near enough. Victor pulls out a wallet and gives her some money, Dex then insists that she has to leave so she does. Anna meets a man and goes home with him and she almost leaves a few times but he insists he won’t make any moves. The next morning the new report talks about Anna’s affair with the president, he realises it’s her and calls his reporter friend and stalls her so he can get an interview as he’s also a reporter. She quickly sees the cameras and realises something is wrong and insists on leaving, she runs out the door and is swarmed by reporters and the news, she makes a run for dex and victors apartment, where is refused entry by dex and valarie, however victor lets her in, valarie and dex are mad at this and try to get her to leave, she asks for money which makes both valarie and Dex mad because they had already given her money, she tells them that she lost her wallet and this only makes them more mad, eventually after a fight, Victor offers to put a ticket to her home on his credit card, this makes Dex mad as they share a credit card, he then insists on driving her. He is warned that towns like where she came from werent safe for him, he refuses to listen and takes Anna down the service elevator so they can leave without notifying the press. In the car, Victor asks questions, Anna refuses to answer eventually she opens up about the sexual behaviour of the president which eventually turned to sex, she tells him she wanted it to end but he was manipulative towards her. She eventually makes it back to Happy, Alabama.

## Personality

Jolene is shown to be much controlling with a spiteful attitude towards her children and others also.