Holly Barrett is one of the main characters in the Disney+ Original Series Big Shot. She is the young Global Studies Teacher Felix's godmother.[1] In Season 1, she was the Assistant Coach for the Westbrook School Basketball Team. In Ava Fever, she was the Head Girls Basketball Coach at Carlsbad Prep. She is currently the Head Basketball Coach for Belford and a Human Biology Teacher at Westbrook School for Girls.
Background[]
Personality[]
Holly is the school’s good-humored and down-to-earth assistant basketball coach. She is caring, kind, friendly, helpful, loyal and supportive.
Physical Appearance[]
TBA
Biography[]
Early life[]
Holly used to played Basketball in High School and had Coach McCarthy as her Basketball Coach. Then during her junior year of High School Coach McCarthy recruited other players from other schools and cut Holly off the team.[2] Holly was married at one point before she cheated on her husband because she had an affair with someone else.[3] At some point in her life she got a job at Westbrook School for Girls as the new Assistant Coach for the Westbrook School Basketball Team and as a Human Biology Teacher and has been working there ever since. When the last Coach got fired, Holly really wanted the job that she thought she deserve but, the position was given to Marvyn Korn instead because Larry Gruzinsky got him the job.
Season One[]
Pilot[]
TBA
The Marvyn Korn Effect[]
TBA
TCKS[]
TBA
Great in the Living Room[]
TBA
This is Our House[]
TBA
Carlsbad Crazies[]
TBA
Kalm Korn[]
TBA
Everything to Me[]
Holly was late to a game because she got into a car accident.
Beth MacBeth[]
TBA
Marvyn's Playbook[]
TBA
Season Two[]
TBA
Relationships[]
Family[]
Felix (godson)
Holly is best friends with Felix's mother and was chosen to be Felix's godmother. Holly has known Felix since he was a baby.
Friends[]
Felix's Mother (best friend)
Marvyn Korn (co-worker/friend)
Sherilyn Thomas (boss/friend/Taco Tuesday Buddy)
Holly and Sherilyn have known each other for quite some time now. In This is Our House, Sherilyn refers to Holly as her “Taco Tuesday Buddy” and she asks Holly if she has feelings for Marvyn Korn which Holly denies. In Everything to Me, Sherilyn visits Holly in the Hospital after her car accident. In Beth MacBeth, Holly was hanging out with Sherilyn in her office having their own Margarita Monday because the restaurant was closed.
Olive Cooper (former player/former student/friend)
Samantha Finkman (former player/friend)
Louise Gruzinsky (former player/friend)
Carolyn Smith (former player/friend)
Destiny Winters (former player/friend)
Appearances[]
Season 1[]
- Pilot
- The Marvyn Korn Effect
- TCKS
- Great in the Living Room
- This is Our House
- Carlsbad Crazies
- Kalm Korn
- Everything to Me
- Beth MacBeth
- Marvyn's Playbook
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[]
Trivia[]
- Originally Holly was supposed to be a lot younger than she appears and played by a younger actress. In October of 2019 Shiri Appleby was originally cast as Holly. In January of 2020 Holly was re-casted and Jessalyn Gilsig replaced Shiri Appleby because the writers wanted Holly to be more contemporary to Marvyn Korn.[4]
- She cheated on her husband by having an affair with someone else.[3]
- She is huge fan of Coach Korn when he coached for College Men's Basketball.[3]
- She is a Human Biology Teacher.
- She was Carolyn, Destiny, Louise and Olive's Assistant Basketball Coach and Human Biology Teacher in Season 1.[5]
- She played Basketball in High School even though she wasn't the greatest player she still loved the game.[2]
- It was revealed in Carlsbad Crazies that her High School Basketball Coach was Coach McCarthy which means she most likely went to Carlsbad Prep.
- During her junior year of High School Coach McCarthy cut her from the team by recruiting other players from other schools.[2]
- She is currently single.[6]
- Both Marvyn Korn and Coach McCarthy think Holly would be a great Head Coach some day.
- In Beth MacBeth, when Marvyn Korn tells her about his job offer that he is thinking about taking at UCSB he tells Holly that she is his first and only choice to take his place as Head Coach at Westbrook School for Girls.
- Coach McCarthy calls up Holly telling her that she is retiring at the end of the school year and that Holly is her first choice to take her place as Head Coach.
- She is the first women Head Basketball Coach for Belford.
Eternal Links[]
Holly Barrett Big-Shot Fandom Wiki