personaje
/peɾsoˈnaxe/ · A2 · noun · mf
an eccentric person, a character
🎭 persona + -aje (like English -age): personage, a character
From French personnage, built on Latin persona, the mask an actor wore. Spanish -aje matches English -age, so personaje is literally personage. It covers a character in a story and also a real person who is quite a character.