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Mar 23, 2021 · Willow Shields as Primrose Everdeen in "The Hunger Games." Lionsgate Prim's name was selected during the reaping, but Katniss volunteered to take her place and compete in the Hunger Games.
- Olivia Singh
- Henry Blodget
- Kelsie Gibson
- Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen. Lawrence played Katniss Everdeen, a teenager from District 12 who volunteers for the Hunger Games after her younger sister's name is drawn during the reaping.
- Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark. Hutcherson played Peeta Mellark, a baker from District 12 who enters the Hunger Games alongside Katniss. Before scoring the role of Peeta, Hutcherson got his start as a child actor, appearing in Little Manhattan (2005), Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) and Bridge to Terabithia (2007).
- Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne. In The Hunger Games films, Hemsworth played Gale Hawthorne, Katniss' devoted childhood best friend from District 12. Though Hemsworth's breakout role was 2010's The Last Song, The Hunger Games films put him on the map.
- Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy. In the Hunger Games films, Harrelson played Katniss and Peeta's mentor, Haymitch Abernathy. The actor already had a noteworthy career before playing Haymitch (Cheers, anyone?)
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- Biography
- Relationships
- Alliances & Packs
- Victims
- Physical description
- Personality
- Abilities
- Possessions
"Katniss Everdeen; a small town girl from District 12 who survived the Hunger Games and turned a nation of slaves into an army!"
—President Alma Coin describing Katniss
Early life
Katniss was born on May 8 in District 12 to Mr. and Mrs. Everdeen. Her father was a miner and illegal hunter who traded in the Hob, District 12's black market. Her mother was a healer and the daughter of the town apothecary owners. Katniss's younger sister was named Primrose, and was four years younger. When Katniss was a child, her father would bring her out into the woods, beyond District 12 to teach her how to hunt with a bow and arrow, as well as how to forage for edible plants. He would sometimes bring her to a lake far into the woods where she learned how to swim. It was during one of these lake visits that Mr. Everdeen introduced Katniss to the edible plant she was named after, and told her, "As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve." Katniss was close to her father and shared his appreciation for music. He was a good singer; he was so good that the mockingjays in the woods would stop to listen to him and copy his tunes. At some point, he taught her "The Hanging Tree", a song about a man calling for his lover to meet him in death. When Katniss's mother heard her singing it, she began screaming at her father, telling him that it was dangerous and unsuitable to be heard by small children and could influence them. This was heightened when she saw Katniss and Prim make actual 'necklaces of rope', with the sisters being oblivious to the fact that the song was talking about voluntarily hanging themselves to death. She then banned the song from their home and forbade Katniss to sing it again outside. Although Katniss never sang it in her mother's presence again, she later sang it during the rebellion when she thought of her father. When Katniss was eleven years old, her father died in a mine explosion, causing her mother to fall into a deep depression and sadness. She became still and weak, refusing to listen to her daughter's pleas and becoming jobless. Unable to stir her, Katniss became the head and primary breadwinner of the family. In order to be resourceful, Katniss made their rations last as long as possible. When they ran out she attempted to sell some old clothes to make some money, to no avail. She tried to look in the garbage bins of the houses in the town square but was yelled at by the baker's wife for snooping. Peeta Mellark, the baker's son, gave Katniss some burnt bread that he'd been told to give to the pig. It is implied that Peeta burnt the bread specifically so he could give it to Katniss and her family to save their lives. Katniss begins to remember the knowledge her father taught her about the woods and about feeding herself. As she gains the courage to move deeper into the forest, she finds more game and is better able to feed her family. Katniss's mother begins to come back out of her depression, but Katniss can no longer trust her or rely on her. When she turned 12, Katniss signed up for tesserae, causing her name to be entered four times in her first reaping. Despite this, Katniss is not chosen as tribute. In the woods, twelve-year-old Katniss meets fourteen-year-old Gale Hawthorne, an older boy whose father died in the same mining explosion that killed her father. Gale has provided for his family by setting traps and snares to catch game. The two eventually become a team and Katniss provides Gale with one of the bows her father made; she teaches him how to shoot and he teaches her about snares. Katniss is not very interested in politics but Gale is a political radical who dreams of an uprising against the oppressive Capitol. Katniss lets him vent to her but is otherwise unmoved. The two agree to protect each other's families if one of them is reaped. Katniss, like all children in Panem, is required to attend school (although she is largely uninterested because she doesn't see how it will bring her food on the table) except on certain holidays, including the Reaping. Unsure of her social skills and uninterested in making friends, Katniss's only school friend is Madge Undersee, though Katniss feels they are more like acquaintances than friends as they rarely talk and mostly just sit together at mealtimes and in classes. It is clear that Madge thinks well of Katniss and cares about her safety.
74th Hunger Games
"I volunteer! I volunteer as tribute!" —Katniss at the Reaping
District 13 Rebellion
"Tonight, turn your weapons to the Capitol! Turn your weapons to Snow!" —Katniss Everdeen to the citizens of Panem.
Peeta Mellark
"What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that." —Katniss about her feelings for Peeta Katniss mentions she can never stop owing things to Peeta Mellark. When she was starving after her father's death, he burnt some bread intentionally, and endured his mother's wrath so he could give some to her. This moment of him showing compassion gave her hope to not give up in this dark time, and to carry on living. Though she wanted to thank him, she never did. However, their eyes met in school the next day, where Katniss held a dandelion in her hands as she and Peeta looked at one another. They both became tributes of District 12 in the 74th Hunger Games after Katniss volunteered in place of her sister, Prim. During their training, Katniss refused to trust Peeta when he did nice things for her, believing it to be part of his strategy. It isn't until Peeta reveals in an interview that he is in love with Katniss. At first furious, she apologizes for lashing out at him, feeling guilty when she realizes that Peeta's confession would be of great help to her in securing sponsors. In the arena, he joins forces with the Careers and encounters Katniss who is hiding in a tree. Peeta suggests that they wait her out, but then helps her escape after she drops a nest of Tracker Jackers onto the Careers. Peeta risks his life to save her, holding Cato off to secure her escape. After discovering two tributes from the same team district can win as a pair, Katniss searches for Peeta, and after she finds him on the brink of death, nurses him back to health. They spend several days in a cave until he's better, with Katniss risking her life to get the medicine needed to heal his leg. During that time she kisses him, flirts with him, and even sleeps next to him in his sleeping bag, playing the part of a girl falling in love. Katniss and Peeta share a passionate kiss in the cave, which Katniss later admits to being confused about, as she experienced a 'hunger' that she had never known during this kiss, and feels it was the only kiss that they shared that was real. After they win the Games, Peeta is heartbroken when he discovers that Katniss was mostly acting. There is a rift in their relationship after this, though Katniss admits to being confused about how she feels for Peeta, and fears letting him go and having to face the future on her own. In Catching Fire, they reconcile and resolve to be friends, spending time getting to know one another. Peeta comforts Katniss in the night when she has nightmares, sleeping next to her during the Victory Tour and when they are reaped for the Quarter Quell. When Katniss is injured after falling whilst climbing the electric fence around District 12, Peeta helps nurse her back to health, carrying her around her home and sketching and painting alongside her. When they are reaped, Katniss and Peeta spend several days on the rooftops of the training center, enjoying the little time they have left together in peace and contentment, watching sunrises and having picnics. During the 3rd Quarter Quell, Peeta is electrocuted after colliding with a forcefield, and his heart stops. Though Finnick is able to restart his heart, Katniss cries and screams over him, relieved that he is alive and terrified and broken when she believed he was dead. Later, on the beach, Peeta tells Katniss that he wants her to live, as she has a family that she loves and needs, and can have a future with Gale, giving her his locket which contains a picture of Prim, her mother, and Gale. Peeta sadly reflects that no one really needs him, and it is here that Katniss realizes that she needs him. That she would never be able to recover if he were to die, and she at least realizes the depth of his love, his willingness to sacrifice everything for her. It is then on the beach she realizes how deeply she actually cares about him and kisses him naturally and passionately, not for the cameras, but out of her affection for Peeta. Like their kiss in the cave in their first Games she wishes that she could shut out anyone who's watching and for once have a moment when it is only the two of them. He later gives her a pearl, jokingly referencing a comment that Effie once made to both of their amusement. Both the locket and the pearl become precious items to Katniss which she keeps by her side at all times. Peeta is eventually separated from Katniss, and is captured by the Capitol while Katniss is taken by the rebels. In Mockingjay, Peeta is gone for a portion of the beginning until about halfway through the book, in which he is only shown being interviewed. Shortly after the last interview, he advises Katniss to not trust the rebels. Peeta is tortured and beaten by the Capitol as a means of breaking and affecting Katniss. He returns after Gale rescues him, but has had his memories tampered with—or hijacked. While he is hijacked, he is driven to kill Katniss, but through the help of Delly Cartwright, Haymitch, and the doctors in District 13, Peeta is able to maintain his sanity. Later, while in the Star Squad, Katniss plays a game with Peeta called "Real or not real," and Katniss helps Peeta recover and remember his deep love for her. Peeta eventually grew self-aware enough to want to die because of the impulses he had to harm Katniss; on several occasions, he asks her to shoot him, give him nightlock, or just leave him to die. Peeta feared he would eventually overpower Katniss. When Peeta was in danger of losing control, Katniss, despite the danger to her life, kissed Peeta, snapping him back into reality, and begged him to "Stay with me", to which he replied "Always". After Prim died, he went to her house and planted primroses around her house as a memorial to her sister, who died because of the exploding parachutes. Over time, Katniss and Peeta grow back together again, and one night, echoing a "game" that they had played while he was having trouble recovering his memory, Peeta asks Katniss: "You love me. Real or not real?" She answers "Real." Katniss expresses how she feels about both Peeta and Gale—that Gale was full of fire, and altogether, not the relationship she needed. Peeta, to her, was like, "a dandelion in the spring...signaling rebirth," emphasizing that Peeta is able to help Katniss heal and move forward, and that with him there was the promise that life could once again be good. She gives in to the 'hunger' that she feels when she is with him, and after reflects that she believes that "This would have happened anyways" indicating that Katniss finally realized how deep her feelings for Peeta ran. In the epilogue, Katniss and Peeta have children after 15 years of being together, and they find a meadow to settle down in. Katniss and Peeta are still haunted by the memories of the Games, but find ways to carry on living and cope with their trauma, living in peace with their children.
Gale Hawthorne
"His lips tastes like oranges." —Katniss after kissing Gale When Katniss was twelve, she met Gale Hawthorne in the woods. Their fathers had been killed in the same accident and they both provided for their families. Gale nicknamed her Catnip, after mishearing her name. They quickly became hunting partners and they taught each other about their expertise. Gale comes to bid Katniss goodbye before she leaves to compete in the Hunger Games and promises to protect Prim. Gale unexpectedly kisses Katniss in the woods, revealing his feelings for her. President Snow threatens Katniss that he will kill Gale and his family. Katniss is unable to say "I love you" back, only admitting she knows he loves her. When Gale exclaims he doesn't want anything made in the Capitol, she believes he's referring to her. Katniss prevents Gale from being whipped after found guilty of poaching, but she gets lashed across the face while doing so. Whilst Gale is stabilized, Katniss stays with him and kisses him, bringing him back to consciousness. After the Quarter Quell is announced, Katniss distances herself from him, however, feeling uncertain about what she truly feels and not wanting to waste time on 'what-ifs'. Before leaving, Katniss admits to herself that she loves Gale on some level, albeit in the limited way she can offer. After the Quell, he tells her that District 12 is destroyed but her mother and sister are okay. Gale tries to make Katniss happy as they get closer in District 13, and they fall into the companionable relationship they had in District 12. However, as Katniss fixates on Peeta's captivity and then later torture, Gale comes to realize that he can only ever gain Katniss's attention when he is in pain. A rift develops between them in District 2, where Katniss is shocked by Gale's methods in securing the District. Later, as they storm the Capitol with the Star Squad, Katniss and Gale fight alongside one another before Gale is captured and Katniss is injured in the firebombing before the Presidential Palace. While Katniss recovers in the hospital, Gale does not visit. Later, Katniss believes the firebomb that killed Prim and the Capitol children was made by Gale. Though part of her wants to deny it, she feels she will be unable to ever disassociate that from Gale, and thus lets him go without a word. Katniss reflects in her head if she and Gale would have ever been truly happy together, or if "The dark, twisted sadness between them have grown up even without the Capitol's help," thus indicating that she feels something would have driven them apart eventually regardless of what they did. Katniss settles back in District 12 with Peeta and is informed that Gale had gone to District 2 to take up an important job. Instead of feeling longing or anger, Katniss is only relieved, believing that Gale would move on like she would and forget about her. Katniss reflects that Gale was full of fire, much like herself, which made him unsuitable as a partner, whereas Peeta was like 'a dandelion in the spring' and that he alone could help her heal and move forward despite the sorrows of her life.
Primrose Everdeen
"We suck on peppermints as I brush her soft blonde hair back behind her ear." —Katniss with Prim Primrose Everdeen was someone who Katniss loved unconditionally as she was also Katniss's younger sister. When she was younger, Katniss hunted and traded to make life easier for her sister. Katniss got Prim a goat for her birthday. Katniss took out tessera but refused to let Prim do the same. When Prim was reaped, Katniss volunteered in her place but Prim did not want her to. Prim came to say goodbye to Katniss and made her promise to win so she could come home. When Katniss is in the arena, she sees that Prim and Rue are very alike. As Rue dies, she makes Katniss promise to win the Hunger Games. Katniss remembers her and Prim's promise and tries to win for both of them. Katniss tries to protect Prim from President Snow and reminds herself she's the reason she must go on. Prim begins giving Katniss advice during Mockingjay. After Prim is killed in a bombing, Katniss falls into a depressive state and allows herself to waste away, losing the will to live. However, when Prim's cat Buttercup (whom Katniss always disliked) arrived back in the Victors' Village searching for her, Katniss snapped in anger and was able to release her grief over Prim's death, allowing her to heal and move on with her life. Peeta brings Katniss evening primroses and plants them around her house in memory of Prim.
Although Haymitch and Cinna had expectations for Peeta and Katniss to join forces in the Hunger Games, the two did not comply. Peeta ended up in a brief alliance with the Careers, while Katniss teamed up with Rue, the small tribute from District 11. Katniss had not made an attempt to form an alliance with Peeta until finding out that if both tribut...
During the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss killed Glimmer, the female tribute from District 1, and the female tribute from District 4 by dropping a tracker jacker hive on them while they slept. The two received many stings, which resulted in death. Her next kill was Marvel, the male tribute from District 1, who drowned in his own blood after Katniss shot him in the neck after he threw a spear into Rue's stomach. During the final fight between Katniss, Peeta, and Cato (the male tribute from District 2) Cato was mortally wounded by muttations. Katniss killed him by shooting an arrow at his neck, as an act of mercy.
During the 75th Hunger Games, Katniss killed Gloss, the male tribute from District 1, after he slit Wiress's throat.
Katniss has long black hair, which she normally pulls back into a long braid, olive skin, and gray eyes. After the fire in the 74th Hunger Games, after her time in the arena, her hair turned at least six inches short, it is an unknown if it was grown back - though most likely it was after her full body fix in the Capitol. She is small in stature and thin for her age as she was generally malnourished because of her district's poverty. She is thus one of the smallest tributes in her Games, but due to her outdoor life, she is strong for her size. She is also known as "The Girl on Fire" during the Hunger Games; she earns this title from her fierce personality and the outfits created for her by her stylist, Cinna. Katniss is not very image-conscious, to the dismay of Venia, one of her stylists. In the first book, her hearing in her left ear is destroyed because of the explosion caused in the arena, but it is fixed in the Capitol in the end, as are all of her other major and more minor injuries including the erasing of any scars from her years of hunting. Before entering the arena the first time, Katniss had many minor scrapes and cuts, and her outward appearance was very much imperfect. However, after she won, they were repaired by the Capitol doctors, including replacing the hearing in her left ear. Most notable about her appearance and demeanor, however, was the image she unconsciously projected, as noted by her co-tribute Peeta. In Peeta's interview, he says that a lot of boys like Katniss when asked if he likes anyone at home.
In The Hunger Games, Katniss wore worn-out clothes with hunting boots, and sometimes wore her father's old hunting coat. During the reaping, she wore her mother's blue dress. At the parade in the capitol, she wore the costume that Cinna made that gave her the name "The Girl on Fire." She wore a black unitard representing coal and lit them with synthetic fire that doesn't burn but can be quenched by a solution made to counter it. He keeps the theme by designing Katniss's interview dress, a gown made completely of precious jewels in flame colors, reflecting the lighting to make her look like she is "engulfed in flames." During the Hunger Games, she wore a hooded black jacket that fell down to her thighs and reflects body heat, tawny trousers, a sturdy brown belt, and a green button-up shirt. She also wears her Mockingjay pin. Cinna also designs her Victor dress, keeping the theme of fire, yet toning it down to candlelight to symbolize innocence other than the fiery spirit for which the theme was first created.
In Catching Fire, she wore many dresses due to the victory tour held six months after the games are over. Katniss describes the outfit Cinna designs for the first day of the Victory Tour as having "flowing black pants made of a thick, warm material. A comfortable white shirt. A sweater woven from green and blue and gray strands of kitten-soft wool. Laced leather boots that don't pinch my toes." Another one of Cinna's outfits for the Victory Tour includes a white coat, leather gloves, a bright red scarf, and earmuffs. The outfit Katniss wears in District 11 is described as "a pretty orange frock patterned with autumn leaves." Cinna designs dresses for Katniss to wear to banquets and balls. One is described by Katniss as pale pink and strapless. Another is described by Johanna Mason as a strapless dark blue velvet dress with diamonds that Katniss wore in District 2. The dress worn by Annie Cresta at her wedding was designed by Cinna for Katniss in District 5. After Katniss accepted Peeta's proposal during the Victory Tour stop at the Capitol, Cinna designed a set of wedding dresses. The Capitol audience voted on the finalists to select the one that would have been used for the wedding. Katniss describes the winner as having sleeves that touch the floor and lots and lots of pearls. During the third Quarter Quell, she wore a fitted blue jumpsuit only 1/2 inch thick made of sheer material, with a zipper in front, a six-inch wide padded belt covered in purple plastic, and nylon shoes with rubber soles. Every victor wore a blue jumpsuit, and a belt that was also a flotation device. The belt was filled with a thick, purple liquid. Katniss also wore her Mockingjay pin.
In Mockingjay, she wore a plain grey shirt and pants since all residents of District 13 wear this. Cinna had designed a uniform for Katniss to wear for her role as the mockingjay. The uniform was black body armor. It had a helmet that can turn into a hood, a chest plate to protect vital organs and had special reinforcements over her heart, short sleeves that reach to her elbows, and white folds under her arms. She had hidden weapons in her boots and belt. Katniss wears a bloody bandage to cover the scar on her left arm that Johanna Mason gave her when she cut her tracker out during the 75th Hunger Games. She also wears her Mockingjay pin over her heart. It's also said in the book after the explosion in Capitol where her sister died, that some of her hair was burned off. Her Mockingjay suit is red, symbolizing the rebellion and the revolution.
"Frankly, I could need some sugarcoating."
—Katniss
Katniss has strong and independent survivalist instincts due to her difficult past and is good at thinking outside the box. She is not socially adept and has a hard time making friends due to the emotional strain on her life which has made her hard and cold. She is more concerned about feeding her family than being social, making her awkward around people. Though Katniss can be rather blunt, misanthropic, sarcastic, bitingly cynical, and cold, she has a very vulnerable side which she only shows around her family, and she has a natural maternal instinct as showed when she comforted Prim and helped Rue. She is not very good at acting for the camera and comes across best when she is herself. She is usually very logical except for times when her emotions get in the way.
Katniss has a habit of biting her nails when she is nervous or anxious and must consciously stop herself from doing so when around others. After she became a victor she could not think of a good reason to break the habit. However, after joining the rebellion she appears to have stopped biting her nails as she does not mention doing so.
"All I know about you is that you're stubborn and good with a bow."
"That pretty much sums me up."
"I'm the best shot you've got!"
—Katniss, to Coin
•Master Marksman: Katniss is a highly skilled archer and hunter, which she learned from her father. She could draw an arrow and strike several targets with a good amount of speed and flexibility due to her good reflexes. She uses her reflexes several times throughout the trilogy: When escaping the Cornucopia bloodbath in the 74th Hunger Games, evading fireballs when the Gamemakers create a forest inferno to draw the tributes together, when she ran from the wolf mutts, fighting Cato atop the Cornucopia, escaping the monkey mutts during the third Quarter Quell and then diverting her aim at the end of the book to assassinate President Coin. Later in District 13, she belatedly undergoes military training in order to participate in the fighting against the Capitol and gains enough proficiency with a gun to be selected for a sharpshooter unit, Squad 451. In pre-judging, she scored the highest mark out of all tributes which was an 11. In the second movie, she demonstrated exceptional lethality during her combat simulation, which all the other tributes watched in awe.
•Knife Proficiency: She has some experience with wielding and throwing a knife in order to finish off a wounded prey animal. During practice sessions, she found that she was also a reasonably good spear-thrower, indicating she has skill with most- if not all- projectile weapons.
•Skilled Combatant: Before the third quarter quell, Peeta trains Katniss hand-to-hand combat skills, making her an exceptional opponent. She is also trained further while living in District 13.
•Gifted Intellect: She is a very clever woman and a quick learner. She possessed the ability to quickly process multiple information streams and rapidly respond to changing tactical situations. After meeting Gale and learning from him, she added fishing and trapping to her skills. Also, she was making snares in the Training Center while watching the Careers train, including Cato using a sword, Glimmer using bow and arrows, and Marvel using and throwing spears, in order to analyze their abilities. She had to educate herself on the edible, medicinal, and poisonous plant life of District 12. Hunting and gathering on a daily basis have given her a highly skilled sense of woodcraft. Moreover, Katniss is a skilled tree-climber and a fast runner, which has benefited her in hunting and the Games.
Katniss had her hunting jacket and bow and arrows given by her father. Katniss received a gold mockingjay pin, which was given to her by her friend, Madge Undersee. After she wins the Games, it becomes a symbol of rebellion for the districts against the Capitol, and a symbol of Katniss herself, as her actions were never meant to exist.
However, many ignorant Capitol citizens still use it as a symbol of fashion, as a remembrance of Katniss' exciting Games. Katniss also has a family plant book containing names of known plants which is an important possession. Katniss also receives from Peeta a pearl along with a gold locket engraved with a mockingjay, containing a picture of her mother, her sister Prim, and Gale during the Quarter Quell in Catching Fire. She is later seen throughout Mockingjay keeping the pearl close to her as a prized possession. In Mockingjay, Katniss receives a bow and arrows from Beetee. They have mechanical properties and can be voice-activated.
But Katniss is more than a movie icon now: Her three-fingered salute, used in Mockingjay as a signal of rebellion against the Capitol, has become a rallying symbol among pro-democracy protesters in Thailand and Hong Kong.
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