Hanna Marin
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Actress Ashley Benson, at the People's Choice Awards who plays Hanna.
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| Portrayed by | Ashley Benson |
| Born | March 7, 1994 (age 23) Rosewood, Pennsylvania |
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| Full name | Hanna Olivia Marin |
| Nickname(s) | Hefty Hanna Hanna Banana Hannakins Dora the Explorer |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | High School Student (Formerly; graduated) Fashion designer (Currently) |
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Patrick Marin (Father) Ashley Marin (Mother) Isabel Marin (Step-Mother) Kate Randall (Step-Sister) |
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| Residence | Rosewood, Pennsylvania Manhattan, New York |
| Education | Rosewood High School (Formerly; graduated) |
| Status | Alive |
| Seasons | 1–7 |
Hanna Olivia Marin is a fictional character created by Sara Shepard for the Pretty Little Liars book series, and later developed for the Freeform television series adaptation by I. Marlene King and portrayed by Ashley Benson. The character has also appeared in the spin-off series Ravenswood.
Hanna is one of the four protagonists of the franchise, and the stories depicts her life with her friends while they receive messages in form of threats from an omnipresent anonymous person, nicknamed as "A." In both books and television, Hanna is shown as a former overweight shiny girl who becomes a queen-bee after her best friend, Alison DiLaurentis, mysteriously disappear. While in the books, Hanna develops a fierce personality—result of years of psychological torture schematized by "A"—, in the TV show, she grows up as kind as possible.
Benson has received critical acclaim for her performance. Critics have praised her comedic timing along with her dramatic scenes. For her portrayal, she won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Summer TV Star: Female in 2014 and 2015.
In the first book, Hanna is introduced as a popular, ruthless girl. She is described as an alluring redhead young, and occasionally is fighting with herself in order to keep her beauty look. In early novels, the character is also written as bulimic.
Hanna is one of four primary protagonists in all sixteen of the Pretty Little Liars novels, starting with Pretty Little Liars.
Before Alison DiLaurentis disappeared, Hanna is shown as a shiny girl with a feeding disorder. She is best friends with Alison DiLaurentis along with Spencer Hastings, Aria Montgomery and Emily Fields. Like the other girls, Hanna and Alison had a secret between them: Alison witnessed Hanna purging with a toothbrush in order to thrill herself when she realizes she's overweight. During the night of the last of 7th grade, while having a sleepover in Spencer's sister Melissa's barn, Alison disappeared. Years later, in the 9th grade, Hanna tried out for cheerleading, but didn't make it, since the cheerleaders considered her too fat and not pretty enough to be in the squad. Hanna and Mona Vanderwaal, a girl that Hanna and her friends used to make fun of for being dorky, decided to become skinny and pretty before the next year's cheerleading tryouts. They bonded and became pretty and popular, eventually deciding that cheerleading wasn't even cool enough to try out for. Hanna took over Alison's spot as the most popular after her disappearance. Within that time, Hanna and Mona also became shoplifters.
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