Rooster and Lily St. Regis

Partners in Crime

1982
1999
2021

Full Names

Daniel Francis Hannigan

Lily St. Regis

Alias

Ralph and Shirley Mudge

Danny the Dip
Rooster
Sadie Algonquin
Phyllis the Filcher (by Lily)

Origin

Annie

Occupations

Con Artists

Powers/Skills

Prison breaking

Cunning

Hobbies

None known

Goals

Cheat Miss Hannigan and Oliver Warbucks out of fifty-thousand dollars by pretending to be Annie's parents (succeeded).

Kidnap and kill Annie (failed).

Crimes

Kidnapping

Attempted child murder
Theft
Fraud
Blackmail

Type of Villains

Greedy Con Artists

“	Rooster, you reprobate!	„
	~ Miss Hannigan furious at Rooster for attempting to have Annie killed.

Rooster and Lily St. Regis are the secondary antagonists of the musical Annie and the 1982 film adaptation of the same name.

In the 1982 Columbia theatrical film version, Rooster was portrayed by Tim Curry (who also portrayed Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the 1990 TV movie adaptation of IT, the Lord of Darkness in Legend, Wadsworth in Clue, Drake in The Pebble and the Penguin, Maestro Forte in Beauty and the Beast's Enchanted Christmas, Hexxus in FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Ben Ravencroft in Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost, Taurus Bulba in Darkwing Duck, Mouse King in Barbie in the Nutcracker, Philippe in Barbie and the Three Musketeers, Professor Calamitous in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Farley Claymore in The Shadow, Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Anatoly Cherdenko in Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island, King Chicken in Duckman, Simon Doonan in the 1996 TV movie Titanic, Billy Flynn in Criminal Minds, Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck in Monk, Cardinal Richelieu in the 1993 film adaptation of The Three Musketeers, Evil Manta in the TV series The Little Mermaid, Thaddeus E. Klang in TaleSpin, El Maléfico in ¡Mucha Lucha!: The Return of El Maléfico, Goblin King in Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King, Skullmaster in Mighty Max, Dr. Anton Sevarius in Gargoyles, Amok Mon Ra in the animated TV series Aladdin, Dr. Slicer in Recess!, Big Brother in Johnny Bravo), Slagar the Cruel in Redwall, Nick O' Teen and Scarlet Fever in Ozzy & Drix, and Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture) and Lily was portrayed by Bernadette Peters.

In the Disney version, Rooster was portrayed by Alan Cumming (who also played Boris Grishenko in Goldeneye, Fegan Floop in the Spy Kids franchise, Loki in Son of the Mask and the Bog King in Strange Magic), and Lily was portrayed by Kristin Chenoweth (who later played Gabi in Rio 2, Maleficent in Descendants and Velma Von Tussle in the 2016 NBC musical telecast of Hairspray).

In the 2021 NBC Live version, Rooster was portrayed by Tituss Burgess, while Lily was portrayed by Megan Hilty.

Biography[]

In the 1982 version, Rooster is a con artist and he has escaped from prison, and he and his new wife Lily pay his sister Agatha Hannigan a visit hoping to get money from her. When she refuses to give them money, they steal from her.

They later try to defraud Annie and Daddy Warbucks by pretending to be the Mudges, Annie's birth parents; they plan to kill Annie and collect the life insurance. The ruse works on Daddy Warbucks, who writes them a check for a large amount of money, but Annie is not fooled and, eventually, escapes from them and rips it up. Rooster wants to kill her. Miss Hannigan tries to stop him, but then he punches her then goes on to try to kill Annie. Rooster is about to catch Annie (who has escaped onto the drawn B&O Bridge). When Rooster slides back down (due to Punjab knocking him after catching Annie), Miss Hannigan redeems herself and beats him with her purse. Rooster and Lily are then arrested. They do not appear in Annie: A Royal Adventure in 1995, suggesting that they are still in prison for their kidnapping plot.

In the 1999 film version, Miss Hannigan and Rooster (pretending to be Annie's parents, the "Mudges," after cutting Lily out of the deal) try to get her, but Lily has to stay behind and watch the orphans. She reveals to the orphans the truth (after being blackmailed by them into revealing what would happen to Annie right after accidentally revealing the secret). Lily, Rooster, and Miss Hannigan are arrested by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Secret Service.

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Trivia[]

Although Rooster and Lily are the secondary antagonists, they turn out to be more dangerous than Miss Hannigan, most notably in the 1982 film. This is because unlike Miss Hannigan, Rooster and Lily secretly plan to kill Annie.
They are not featured in the 2014 version of Annie. Instead, they are replaced with the unnamed fake parents with some of Rooster's role being split between the fake father and Guy Danlily.

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