Samantha “Giggles” Finkman is one of the main characters in the Disney+ Original Series Big Shot. She is currently a student at Westbrook School for Girls. She is a Point Guard for the Westbrook School Basketball Team.
Background[]
Personality[]
Samantha is brave, friendly, funny and optimistic.
Biography[]
Early life[]
When Samantha was little, she suffered a brain injury.[1] Samantha used to go to Carlsbad Prep before she started attending Westbrook School for Girls. She used to play Basketball for Carlsbad Prep where she had Coach McCarthy as her Basketball Coach who would make fun of her for always being benched.[2]
Season One[]
Pilot[]
Samantha first meets her new Basketball Coach Marvyn Korn when he first arrives to practice on his first day as the new Basketball Coach at Westbrook School for Girls. Samantha makes a squeaky noise that sounds almost like a laugh, who defends herself against the tough coach, telling him she can’t help it, it’s related to a brain injury when she was a child.
Relationships[]
Friends[]
Holly Barrett (coach/friend)
Samantha most likely sees Holly as a mother figure in the Basketball world. In Everything to Me, during Basketball Practice when Holly and Marvyn Korn are fighting she says "Think mom and dad are fighting" to Olive Cooper.
Gallery[]
Promotion[]
Season One[]
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Season Two[]
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Miscellaneous[]
Season One[]
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Season Two[]
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Behind the Scenes[]
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Trivia[]
- She has Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA).[1]
- She had a brain injury when she was little.[1]
- Her Jersey Number is 11 which is also Savannah Gibson’s Jersey Number too.
- She used to go to Carlsbad Prep.[2]
- Coach McCarthy was her Basketball Coach when she used to play for Carlsbad Prep when she used to go there.[2]
- She dated her friend and teammate Louise Gruzinsky's brother Lucas Gruzinsky for six weeks.[3]
- She faked spraining her ankle because Carlsbad was harassing her on Social Media. Marvyn Korn knew she was faking the injury because she taped the wrong foot two days in a row.[4]
- She has anxiety.