Age: 71
female
Born in Texas, Harriet Sansom Harris got involved in acting as a youngster. At seventeen, Harris was accepted at New York's famed Juilliard School. Upon graduation, Harris joined The Acting Company, a repertory group formed by the first alumni of John Houseman's Drama Division of The Juilliard School. She spent three years with the Company before she left to work primarily in regional theater. This led to a successful Broadway and Off-Broadway career. Her life changed after appearing as the sole female in the original cast of "Jeffrey", Paul Rudnick's smash Off-Broadway hit about love in the time of AIDS. "Jeffrey" led to guest shots on series television, including "Frasier" (1993), where she created the memorable role of "Bebe Glazer", Frasier's cutthroat, neurotic, chain-smoking agent. She also won raves from critics for her role of "Vivian Buchanan" on CBS's "The 5 Mrs. Buchanans" (1994). She now calls New York her home, but frequently travels to California for film and television appearances. IMDb Mini Biography By: Dan Flave-Novak
Harriet Sansom Harris
Mags Finnegan
for Mags Finnegan in Finnick Odair Prequel
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If Suzanne Collins continues her tradition of threes, a final Hunger Games prequel told from Finnick Odair’s perspective would be a natural, essential conclusion. With The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Snow) and Sunrise on the Reaping (Haymitch), we’ve explored the roots of tyranny—Snow’s origin revealing how power corrupts through ambition and choice, and Sunrise showing how the Capitol enforces control through implicit submission. Though Haymitch won the second Quarter Quell in spectacular fashion, the Capitol censored his acts of rebellion, editing them from public view. Even readers, like the Capitol audience, once believed his Games were unremarkable. But rebellion existed long before Katniss. A Finnick novel could expand that truth. The youngest victor in history at just 14, Finnick was sold to Capitol elites, stripped of his family, and left with only Mags and Annie. Coming from a Career district, he likely trusted the Capitol at first—until survival taught him otherwise. His story would expose the grooming, commodification, and trauma inflicted on children in the name of entertainment—core themes rooted in Collins’s background in children’s media. Of all the victors, Finnick performs best—charming, smiling, and broken. His story would complete a trilogy not just of war, but of survival—and what it costs.
