SYDNEY RUTLEDGE

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Sydney has a middle name that is not shown in the credits and is only mentioned once in the show. The pronunciation given to it (by Nancy) suggests it might be spelled Orien or Orienne, but somehow the accepted spelling seems to be "Orion". Sarah Michelle Gellar, in an interview with TEEN PARTY magazine, described her Swans Crossing character: "Sydney is kind of like the town witch. She doesn't really care about anyone else's feelings and she feels that everything revolves around her, and it usually does."

She tries to never wear an outfit more than once, bites her nails when stressed, is an accomplished equestrian, and is always in the mood for shopping Her horse's name is Sugar, and Sugar's riding collar has Sydney's initials on it.

Rumours circulate in Swans Crossing that Sydney and Sandy Swann were switched at birth, and certain facts support the credibility of those rumours. Sandy is the only Swan to be born a blonde. Margaret at one point says that "ten generations of Rutledge women and Sydney is the first one not to have light eyes."

Her stormy, on-again, off-again relationship with Garrett Booth is complicated by the intense opposition to it by both her mother and Garrett's father. Mayor Rutledge (Sydney's mom) doesn't trust Booth men. Sydney's father is never mentioned, a fact that lends itself to speculation regarding the origins of the Mayor's hostility toward Mr. Booth.

When Garrett wants to meet her, he displays a window shade with a picture of Fabian on it in his sister Glory's bedroom window. (Fabian was a well-known pop star whose career was at its height between 1958 and 1963.) Garret gave Sydney a red rose before he left for boarding school in France. (He returned before the events that begin the show.)

When her friend Nancy got a horse without telling her parents, Sydney helped her hide it in her (evidently large) room and the plan worked until Nancy jumped over her bed with it. Even so, Nancy got to keep the horse. (The story of the horse is discussed but not shown.)

Sydney has three nightmarish dream sequences (episodes 28, 53, and 55). The first involves a wizard who transformed her into Sandy Swan. In the second, an antique slot machine sits in the background with coloured lights and giant dice; and in the third, several of Sydney's friends mock her while being served canapes by her butler Ralph. After waking from the third dream, she goes to the dock at 5am and drops her grandmother's locket into the water. She dives in to retrieve it, but her hand gets stuck under a rock and Callie has to jump in and save her.