Dris Wright is the tritagonist of Top Boy.
He serves as the tritagonist of Season 1 and Season 3, the deuteragonist of Season 2, the posthumous overarching protagonist of Season 4 and a mentioned character in Season 5.
He is portrayed by Shone Romolus.
Biography[]
Dris has a daughter and has been looking after his daughter on his own since his girlfriend has prison. Dris suffered a stroke in 2018.
Dris is first shown, hanging out with Sully and Dushane. The trio then run to help the rest of the crew after a rival gang, robbed but they got away in time, Kamale and the crew rob them again. With the crew thinking that Gem was the leak of the stash house Dris comes to his school to confront him but runs away he continues to chase him, he bullies Ra'Nell to get information on Gem but gets stopped.
When Dushane and Sully find out where Kamale is staying Dris comes with them to kidnap Kamale. Dris stabs Dwight in the arm with a cleaver, as they take him to a quiet place they bury him and then Kamale tells them where the stolen drugs are, Dushane and Sully go on their way there and Dris beats up Kamale before he kills and buries him. The next morning knowing that Gem wasn't the one who leaked to Kamale, Dris tries to make up to Ra'Nell and succeeds to make up to Gem for what happened.
When Dushane accepts Ra'Nell's offer for the cannabis deal only once, Sully talks with Dris to rob Ra'Nell instead. Leon comes to try to rescue Ra'Nell when Dris and Sully rob the weed off him but Sully kills Leon and they flee. Sully is kicked out of the crew because of this and Dushane makes Dris his number 2.
Season 2[]
With Sully excommunicated from the crew by Dushane, Dris now serves as Dushane's 2nd in command. In the beginning of season 2 Dris starts taking his daughter to school, he gets stopped by the police for the murder of Kamale when the police find his body. Dushane also gets arrested but they both got let off as Kayla becomes a friend to the crew although she also gets arrested and gets interrogated. There are posters around Summerhouse about Kamale's murder, and when Dris sees the posters he advises to Dushane and tells him that they are never going to let that go.
When Kayla comes home after being arrested, Dris comes with one of the drug dealers of the crew to drop off Elijah to reunite with his mother for keeping her mouth shut about the Kamale murder. Dushane tells Dris that the London Fields member, Dwight, who was with Kamale the night of the murder was shot dead at a New Year's party. Dris takes Erin to come and see her mother in prison Mandy who is Dris' girlfriend, he lets her know about the Kamale murder and how he may be banged up in jail about Kayla being arrested. Mandy is very upset about it as she is worried about what will happen to Erin.
Dris comes with Dushane to confront Vincent for beating up Ra'Nell but Mustapha then comes through and stabs Vincent to his death and he also comes with Dushane and Sully also reunites with them to rob the Albanians who robbed them to retrieve back the drugs and money.
Season 3[]
6 years later, Dris had a stroke previously before season 3, he occasionally has seizures, while Dushane is in Jamaica, Dris is now the de facto leader in the Summerhouse estate, Jaq serves as his 2nd in command and occasionally has a couple who ask for tick for drugs which they are occasionally told to f*** off by Dris and Jaq, these 2 couples happen to be CID. When Dushane returns to Summerhouse to take back leadership, Dris returns as 2nd in command until Sully comes back after the death of his friend (and surrogate son) Jason, Dris lets Dushane stay as long as he wants in his flat, along with his daughter Erin who has a less relationship with her father.
Dris becomes a liability to the crew along with falling asleep from his seizure in his car while waiting on Dushane when he is robbing a house to find money, also not taking his meds and so Dushane drops him back and leaves Jaq to be 3rd in charge of the crew which Dris gets more disloyal.
In the 9th episode Dris is dropping off his daughter at school who gets approached by Jermaine (Sully's estranged cousin) and then Dris sells Dushane and Sully out to Jermaine and escaped prisoner Modie and also sells his friends out to Jamie who was the leader of the fields who were at war with Summerhouse.
Dushane and Sully evaded both attacks and they find out Dris was the one who sold them out, Sully comes to Dris and takes him to a rooftop, Sully shoots Dris 20 times. As far as the police are concerned, he is reported missing in the police radar and his daughter Erin is around with social services. Random burglars also come in his flat and take a lot of stuff out of there.
Season 4[]
Sully visits summerhouse and feels guilty for killing Dris. He finds out Mandy is released from prison and Erin is in care. He helps Mandy get a job which could help her reclaim Erin although she suspects Sully killed Dris due to Dris being a feared man.
Season 5[]
Erin is now living with her mum in summerhouses and goes to school with Stefan where she talks to him about her father Dris. Dris’s murder was finally avenged when unknown assailant shoots Sully in the head killing him instantly.
Kill count[]
Personal[]
- Marnie (Gem's dog): Hung by her neck to send a message for Gem. (10/3/2011)
- Kamale Lewis: Shot in the head for stealing the drugs from Summerhouse. (10/3/2011)
Proxy[]
- Leon: Shot to death by Sully. Dris was helping Sully fight Leon after Leon was defending Ra'Nell. (12/3/2011)
Indirect[]
- Vincent: Stabbed in the leg by Mr. Mustapha, Dris and Dushane left Vincent for dead and walked off. (23/9/2012)
- Collins: Dris went with Dushane, Sully and Shaheed to retrieve back the drugs The Albanians stolen from Joe, the next day, Darden & his crew went to Dushane's flat to find him, seeing Collins in there, he gets stabbed by Darden. (24/9/2020)
- Michael: Dris went with Dushane, Sully and Shaheed to retrieve back the drugs The Albanians stolen from Joe, the next day, Darden & his crew went to Dushane's flat to find him, after hearing Michael shouting for Dushane, he gets thrown off the balcony by Darden. (24/9/2020)
- Gerry: Shot by Modie, after Dris told Jermaine where Dushane and Sully's safehouse was. (8/10/2019)
- Ricky: Shot by Modie, after Dris told Jermaine where Dushane and Sully's safehouse was. (8/10/2019)
Trivia[]
- Dris is the English version of Julio Ramano and Andre Coleman in TV series Power.
- Top Boy of Shone Romulus playing Dris was his first acting role.
- Dris was an anti hero in all 3 seasons season 1 Dris was a tritagonist, he was deuteragonist in season 2 and in season 3 he is a deuteragonist and then in the last 2 episodes he becomes an antagonist.
- Dris was the first character to commit a proper murder being Kamale, Sully killed first but was accidental.
- Dris had a stroke in 2018.
- Between 2013 and 2019 Dris was the only original Summerhouse members that remained with Summerhouse as it was unknown what happened to the other last members Shaheed, Nevaeh, Nafisa & R-Marni.
- During the absence of Dushane and Sully, Dris was running Summerhouse.
- Dris' last name is Wright in season 2 but in season 3 finale the police have his last name down as Dris Walsh.
- His girlfriend Mandy is in prison in season 2 and later in season 3 she is believed to go back inside.
- At the end of season 3 there is burglars at Dris's flat where they take everything out of his flat.
- His old next door neighbour Ralph always thought Dris was a quiet person and always said hello to him.
- Dris' flat got terminated by his landlord.
- Mandy suspects Sully killing Dris.
- His murder was avenged at the end of season 5 where unknown assailant kills Sully,
- When Sully shot Dris, its unknown that Sully actually shot Dris 20 times as Ralph is a crazy man or probably Sully did it through his PTSD.
- Dris was mentioned in the episode "Has It Come To This" when Erin and Stefan have a chat about Sully.
Appearances[]
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- ↑ About five minutes pass after Dushane checks CCTV.