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2019’s Joker is formally getting a sequel. Joker: Folie à Deux is slated for a 2024 launch, per Variety, and can see the Oscar-winning Joaquin Phoenix return because the Joker, whereas Lady Gaga will tackle the function of his co-conspirator Harley Quinn. The sequel of the uber-successful 2019 action-thriller might be a musical and can mark Woman Gaga’s first musical movie since 2018’s A Star Is Born, for which she picked up a trophy for Greatest Authentic Tune for “Shallow” on the 2019 Academy Awards.

Harley Quinn, the Crime Queen of Gotham Metropolis, was most just lately performed by Margot Robbie within the 2020 movie Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn) and 2021’s The Suicide Squad. And whereas the Aussie actress was a preferred choose for the function, she is considered one of over two dozen girls who’ve performed or voiced the character through the years. Meet all of them under.

Woman Gaga

Woman Gaga, born on Mar 28, 1986, is an American singer and songwriter with Italian and French-Canadian roots who burst onto the music scene along with her debut album, The Fame, in 2008. The album included iconic hits such because the energetic and bubbly “Simply Dance” and “Poker Face.” Apart from her music, she demanded consideration along with her head-turning fashion, such because the gown constructed of uncooked meat she donned on the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards and the notorious egg she hid in as she was carried onto the 2011 Grammy Awards pink carpet. “Everybody calls this the egg nevertheless it’s truly a vessel that was designed by Hussein Chalayan,” she recalled to British Vogue in Nov. 2021. “I used to be very explicit about the best way the style appeared for this efficiency in a lot because the night time earlier than the efficiency I mentioned, ‘The style’s flawed, we don’t have it. We want it to be latex. We want nude latex.’” Her crew ended up shopping for latex from a bus firm.

Along with her profitable music profession, which has spawned seven studio albums together with two collaborations with the legendary Tony Bennett, Woman Gaga, after all, is an award-winning actress. Her most notable initiatives embrace 2019’s A Star Is Born, American Horror Story, and 2021’s Home of Gucci, by which she starred reverse Adam Driver. As famous above, the New York Metropolis native has one Oscar to her identify and has been honored with 4 Emmy nominations.

Along with being an extremely proficient singer, dancer, and actress, Woman Gaga has an enormous coronary heart and has been very outspoken about causes near her coronary heart, resembling supporting the LGBTQ+ group, and raising funds for Covid-19 relief, and mental health advocacy. And in a 2016 essay she penned for her Born This Way Foundation, which helps help the wellness of younger folks, she mentioned, “I imagine that essentially the most cheap and maybe the very best medication on this planet is phrases. Form phrases … constructive phrases … phrases that assist individuals who really feel ashamed of an invisible sickness to beat their disgrace and be at liberty.”

Gillian Jacobs

Gillian Jacobs voiced Harley Quinn in 2021’s Injustice, a movie primarily based on the online game collection of the identical identify. Gillian is a Pittsburgh, Pa. native who was born on Oct. 19, 1982. She educated at New York Metropolis’s Julliard and has a theater background. She made her massive break when she landed the function of Britta Perry, who she delivered to life in six seasons of the tv collection, Group.  A few of her notable movies embrace 2008’s Choke,  2009’s The Field, and 2014’s Stroll of Disgrace.

Margot Robbie

Margot is an Australian actress who’s greatest recognized for her roles in 2016’s Suicide Squad, 2019’s As soon as Upon a Time… In Hollywood, 2020’s Birds of Prey, 2020’s The Suicide Squad, and the upcoming Barbie film. She was born on July 2, 1990 in Queensland and her first IMDb credit score is for a job within the tv collection Metropolis Murder in 2008. She moved to America after a stint on the Australian cleaning soap opera Neigbours led to 2011. She rapidly landed the lead function within the interval drama Pan Am, though it was canceled after one season. Her luck modified after touchdown what is commonly famous as her breakthrough function as Naomi Lapaglia in The Wolf of Wall Avenue, the place she acted alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. Margot has been married to British movie producer Tom Ackerley since 2016.

Though Margot seemingly had a linear rise to the highest, she mentioned it was nothing however in a 2016 chat with The New York Times. “It’s all the time a hustle. I believed it will be a mountain, the place you get to the highest, after which it’s like: ‘Wheeee! It’s really easy after this,’” she admitted. “Any time I get close to the highest, I’m like, ‘There’s one other mountain!’ The hustle continues.”

Kaley Cuoco

The Flight Attendant actress Kaley Cuoco performed Harley Quinn within the 2019 animated collection Harley Quinn. Born in Camarillo, Calif. on Nov. 30, 1985, Kayley has been performing since she was simply 10 years outdated and acquired her first massive break for her portrayal of Bridget Hennessey on the Emmy Award-winning comedy collection 8 Easy Guidelines, which aired between 2002 and 2005. As an grownup, she is well known as Penny from the hit NBC collection The Large Bang Concept, which was filmed between 2007 and 2019.

Along with being an A-list actress, few know that she’s additionally an excellent aggressive tennis participant. “Appearing was simply one other a part of my life, because it nonetheless is as we speak,” she advised Cosmopolitan in 2014 when talking about her varied hobbies. “It’s one of many 10 issues I really like doing. It’s by no means simply been my life. As tacky because it sounds, all my eggs had been by no means in only one basket. I had a thousand baskets occurring.”

Whereas her skilled life has been booming, the identical can’t be mentioned for her romantic aspect, as she has been divorced twice since 2016. She was married to tennis professional Ryan Sweeting, 34, for 2 and a half years after which tied the knot with Karl Cook, 29, in 2018, which lasted three years. On the time of this writing, she appears as comfortable as ever with Ozark star Tom Pelphrey, 39. 

Melissa Rauch

Melissa Rauch, who co-starred with Kaley as Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz on The Big Bang Theory, voiced Harley Quinn for 2017’s animated movie Batman and Harley Quinn. “I really like that Harley is a badass and, past that, that she makes use of her humor as one other weapon in her arsenal,” the actress advised Empire in a 2017 interview. “She is aware of simply how you can diffuse a state of affairs along with her humor, and how you can incite a state of affairs along with her sarcasm. It’s a dream function.”

Melissa is from Marlboro Township, N.J., and was born on June 23, 1980. She started her profession as a humorist, and her one-woman present, The Miss Schooling of Jenna Bush gained her a deal of notoriety. Her first IMDb credit score got here in 2006, for a small function within the movie, Delirious, and her profession rapidly gained pace from there. After all, her breakout function was on CBS’ The Large Bang Concept. She has additionally appeared in True Blood and The Workplace.

Melissa has been married to her faculty sweetheart, Winston Beigel, since 2007 and has two kids with him.  Enjoyable reality: Winston and Melissa wrote her one-woman present collectively and collaborate often. “Our course of is that we define every part to dying earlier than we take a stab at writing the dialogue … I’ll take a stab on the scene, he’ll take a stab on the scene, and we’ll mix the very best of. Or it is going to be like, ‘What you wrote is healthier.’ It’s fairly balanced,” she advised Interview of her and her husband’s inventive course of in a 2016 interview with Interview Magazine.

Mia Sara

Mia Sara, born on June 19, 1967 in Brooklyn Heights, New York Metropolis, made historical past for as the primary live-action Harley Quinn, within the 2002 tv collection Birds of Prey. She is greatest recognized for the long-lasting 1986 movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Different notable initiatives embrace 1985’s Legend and 1994’s Timecop. Sara has not acted since 2013, and he or she began pulling away from the career as soon as she grew to become a mother. She married Jason Connery in 1996 and had her first and solely baby with him, Dashiell Quinn Connery, in 1997. She grew to become a mother once more in 2005 when she gave beginning to a daughter, Amelia Jane, with who would turn into her second husband in 2010, Brian Henson.

“Now I’m a mom with a extremely noisy, troublesome home to keep up!” she advised Total Film in a 2010 interview. “I did a movie final January the place I performed an evil witch, which was enjoyable. However you already know, when it’s two o’clock within the morning and also you’re carrying a corset and tights in a freezing-cold farmhouse in Connecticut, you do type of suppose, ‘Properly, because of this I’m retired! I can’t actually do that anymore!’”

The Voices Of Harley Quin

Along with Kaley, a number of different actresses have voiced the Joker’s companion in crime through the years. Harley Quinn was invented after Paul Dini watched his faculty buddy Arleen Sorkin play a jester on an outdated tape she had from the cleaning soap opera Days of Our Lives. Sooner or later in 1991, Paul performed the VHS tape and his inventive wheels began turning. “I believed, Possibly there must be a lady [alongside the Joker],” Dini recalled to Vulture in 2020. “And I believed, ‘Ought to the lady be like a tricky avenue thug? Or like a hench-person or one thing? After which all of the sudden the thought of somebody humorous type of struck me.” Harley was first delivered to life in 1992’s Batman: The Animated Sequence and have become a staple ever since.