Favourite Films: ‘Gaslight’, ‘The Apartment’, 'Strangers on a Train', ‘Psycho’, ‘Halloween’, ‘Schindler’s List’, ‘Jurassic Park’, ‘The Basketball Diaries’, ‘Scream’, 'Fight Club', 'Can't Hardly Wait', ‘Cruel Intentions’, ‘Harry Potter’ Series, 'Amélie', 'Love Actually', 'Pieces of April’, ‘Closer’, 'Paris, je t'aime', ‘Rocket Science’, ‘Up In The Air', 'Micmacs', ‘Inception’, ‘The Social Network’, 'Black Swan', 'Rabbit Hole', & 'Drive'.
Favourite Books: ‘The Catcher in the Rye’, 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole', 'To Kill a Mocking Bird', ‘Less than Zero’, 'The Joy Luck Club', & ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh’.
Favourite Musicals: ‘West Side Story’, ‘Rent’, ‘Phantom of the Opera’, ‘In The Heights’, ‘Spring Awakening’, ‘Bare: a pop opera’, ‘Billy Elliot’, ‘Hairspray’, & ‘The Sound of Music’
Favourite People: My family/friends, Kevin Williamson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, J.K. Rowling, Tyler Shields, Francis Lawrence, Craig Armstrong, Britney Spears, David Heyman, John Williams, Mark Romanek, Ryan Tedder, Lady Gaga, Hans Zimmer, & Josh Schwartz
Focus on what you love. It’s the greatest passport… the greatest road map to an extraordinary blissful life. Just focus on that one thing and don’t listen to anyone else.
Excerpt from Katie Finneran’s 2010 TONY Speech on winning Best Featured Actress in a Musical for ’Promises Promises’.