Tessie is one of the many orphans from the Broadway play and film adaptations of Annie. She is known for her catchphrase, "Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness!" and her constant mood swings from being happy one minute and worrisome the next. Tessie is around 10 years old. She is portrayed by Diana Barrows in the original musical ,Lara Berk in the 1982 film ,Erin Adams in the 1999 film , & Zoe Margaret Coletti in the 2014 remake.
role in the film (original 1982 film)
tessie is seen peacefully sleeping in the hudson street home for girls then pepper wakes her up yelling at molly july and duffy start to hit pepper with a pillow causing tessie to say oh my goodness and get overwhelmed she then listens to annie sing maybe and says oh my goodness when she realizes she might get adopted (maybe) then miss hannigan wakes them up tessie puts on her blouse over her night tank top then goes to sing its the hard knock life she walks down the stairs holding a bucket and isnt seen again until molly is pretending to be miss hannigan tessie stands on a stand and jumps off joining the rest of the orphans at the end tessie strips a bed and throws the blanket into the hamper tessie says oh my goodness oh my goodness and puts the hamper in the laundry truck in the sandy song when an orphan sings “especially when your all alone in the night and your small and terribly frightened” molly and tessie join her hugging sandy because they are all small and get frightened easily in the maybe reprise tessie sings the solo “maybe they’re strict as straight as a line” when the orphans are marching in line tessie witnesses duffy pull a dead mouse out of the garbage can and put it down her dress miss hannigan yells at them tessie runs outside “duffy tessie somebody” yells molly when she tries to get help after finding out lily rooster and miss hannigan are planning to kidnap annie after molly hits pepper with a mop she warns the other orphans tessie tries to escape but gets caught and locked in the closet pepper finds an escape tessie cilmbs down and walks they find the car that annies in sandy jumps out and encourages them to keep going tessie whines i cant run anymore sandy encourages her and she keeps running she warns daddy warbucks and rescues annie and goes to annies party and watches the fireworks with her friends
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