‘Birds of Prey’: Who Are Huntress and Black Canary?

With the news that 2020’s Birds of Prey movie has cast its Birds to star alongside Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, audiences unfamiliar with the intricacies of DC comic book continuity might be wondering just who Black Canary and the Huntress actually are, and what they have to do with the Birds of Prey and Harley Quinn. Glad you asked. Here’s the backstories to the characters to be played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jurnee Smollett-Bell.