7. Her First Live-Action Appearance Came In Birds Of Prey
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Although Suicide Squad was never something to write home about, Margot Robbie's performance as Harley Quinn was one of the film's few redeeming aspects. She had the voice, the look and the presence to make it work in live action, but other Harleens haven't been as fortunate.
For those not in the know, the Birds of Prey was a short-lived TV show centred around the eponymous team from the comics, led by Oracle, Huntress and Black Canary. Among the few villains the series was able to boast was Harley Quinn, who was played by Mia Sara during its initial 13 episode run. There, she's cast as a psychiatrist who - unbeknownst to the wider team - was the original Quinn when Joker was still around.
This Harley is as interesting as any other, but considering that Birds of Prey only has one home release to speak of, it would seem as though DC would prefer this series - more than others - to go unnoticed.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
