Harley Quinn is crushing it on the big screen and the small. Here's a comparison of the character as she appears, portrayed by Margot Robbie in Birds of Prey and by Kaley Cuoco on the Harley Quinn animated series. Watch them both on HBO Max.
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn) is the 2020 feature film that pulls together concepts from DC's Birds of Prey comic books and the 2016 Suicide Squad movie.
Margot Robbie reprises her role as Batman villain Harley Quinn, a character she played in Suicide Squad. In this take, Quinn breaks up with the Joker, prompting her considerable list of enemies to come gunning for her. Not the least of which is Roman Sionis (aka The Black Mask, played by Ewan McGregor) and his muscle Victor Zsasz (Chris Messina). Fortunately Quinn finds an unlikely group of allies in Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell, The Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), police detective Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) and a young street thief named Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco).
Cathy Yan directs the film from a script by Christina Hodson.
The movie was briefly retitled Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey due to its weak box office performance, but has retained it's original title in its home entertainment release.
Harley Quinn is the 2019 animated TV series based on the DC Comics character of the same name.
The show was developed for the DC Universe streaming service and targets an adult audience. In the series, Harley has finally dumped the Clown Prince of Crime and sets her sights on something bigger: joining the Legion of Doom and building herself into Gotham's Crime Queen of Mean. Kaley Cuoco (Big Bang Theory) stars as the voice behind miss Quinzel in this half-hour comedy.
Backing up Cuoco are a rogue's gallery of voice talent including Alan Tudyk as Joker, Lake Bell as Poison Ivy, Diedrich Bader as Batman, Jim Rash as the Riddler, Tony Hale as Dr. Psycho, Rahul Kohli as Scarecrow, Ron Funches as King Shark, J.B. Smoove as Frank, the plant and many others.
Patrick Schumacker and Justin Halpern are executive producers, along with Cuoco.
The show debuted to critical acclaim in November of 2019. DC Universe was ready to capitalize on Harley momentum and had a season 2 prepped and ready to air just five months later.
