


Ophelia knew at that moment that Uncle Clyde had raped Annalise. Uncle Clyde was an alcoholic and always fell asleep with a cigarette in his mouth, and one night, Ophelia got up to see Uncle Clyde coming out of Annalise's room. One day, when Annalise was a child, her uncle Clyde arrived, who asked Ophelia to stay at her house for a few days, while recovering financially. Ophelia Harkness became pregnant with Annalise, and shortly after she bought her own house, which she described as “not much, but finally hers.” Annalise has a brother and sister named Celestine and Thelonious Harkness, and her father was absent as he left her mother. Through critical decisions, betrayal, more death, and secrets coming out, Annalise continues to project the powerful woman she is onto the corrupt cycle that is Philadelphia's law enforcement. That wouldn't be the last time Annalise would cover up a murder, and as the bodies keep piling up, the FBI and D.A.'s office suspects her more and more. But as they say, no good deed goes unpunished. She seemed to have a perfect life and was respected for being a great lawyer and a great criminal law professor, whom her students both fear and admire. Annalise is a woman with two faces one of them, a strong woman, that she shows the world, while the other, a sentimental and destroyed human being, was shown to Nate and Wes.Īfter the death of her husband Sam Keating at the hands of Wes Gibbins and the rest of the Keating 5, Annalise chooses to protect Wes, who she has a history with, and do everything in her power to move forward.
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I'm ambitious, black, bisexual, angry, sad, strong, sensitive, scared, fierce, talented, exhausted - and I am at your mercy." -Annalise to jury Īnnalise Harkness, Esq (formerly Keating), born Anna Mae, is one of the main characters of How to Get Away with Murder.Īnnalise is a self-sufficient and confident woman. " Who I am is a 53-year-old woman from Memphis, Tennessee named Anna Mae Harkness.
