castaway

Harold Perrineau has notched several highlights in his varied career — as Augustus Hill on HBO’s prison drama “Oz”; as castaway Michael Dawson on ABC’s “Lost”; and as Boyd Stevens, a man battling enemies human and not, on MGM+’ s horror drama “From.”

His ancestry is ambiguous, and he is described in the book as "a dark-skinned gipsy" and "a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway".

The castaway dreamed all night of Amanda.

Years later when a shred of aircraft aluminum and the rubber heel from a woman’s shoe were found on an island 400 miles from Earhart’s destination, she was imagined to have been a castaway.

Villain vs. victim in some folks’ minds, but at the very least — survivor vs. castaway.