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Full Name:Molly Shannon
Famous As: Actress, writer
Date of Birth: September 16, 1964
Place of Birth: Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
Height: 5' 5
Nationality: American

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Molly Shannon
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Molly Shannon

Shannon at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
Born Molly Helen Shannon
September 16, 1964 (1964-09-16) (age 44)
Shaker Heights, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation Actress, Comedian, Writer
Years active 1987–present
Spouse(s) Fritz Chesnut (2004-present)

Molly Helen Shannon (born September 16, 1964) is an American actress, comedian and writer. She is best known for her work as a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1995-2001, and is currently starring on the NBC sitcom Kath & Kim. She is also well known for appearing in movies with Will Ferrell.

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Personal life

Fritz Chesnut and Shannon in 2009.

Shannon was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio to an Irish American Catholic family.1 Her mother, Peg Shannon, was a teacher, and her father, James F. Shannon, was a sales manager.2 Shannon was involved in a traumatic car accident when she was four years old which killed her mother, younger sister, and cousin.3 Shannon attended St. Dominic School in Shaker Heights for grade school, and Hawken School in Gates Mills, Ohio, for high school.

Shannon married artist Fritz Chesnut on May 29, 2004. They have two children: daughter Stella (b. 2003), and son Nolan (b. 2005).

Career

Before Saturday Night Live, Shannon had a struggling career in films, her most notable being a supporting role as Meg in the 1989 horror film remake of The Phantom of the Opera with Robert Englund. In 1991, she had a brief appearance in the second season of Twin Peaks, and in 1993, she appeared in a supporting role in two episodes of In Living Color, the first in a fake TV commercials with Chris Rock (played by Shawn Wayans), and the second in a sketch with Jim Carrey, playing a crooked police chief.

Shannon's major break came in February 1995, when she was hired as a featured player on Saturday Night Live to replace Janeane Garofalo after Garofalo left mid-season. Shannon was one of the few cast members to be kept (along with David Spade, Norm Macdonald, Mark McKinney, and Tim Meadows) when Lorne Michaels engaged in a major cast overhaul between seasons 20 and 21.

She appeared in a 1997 episode of Seinfeld entitled "The Summer of George," where she played Sam, the co-worker who drove Elaine Benes crazy because she did not swing her arms while walking. She also appeared in Sheryl Crow's video for the song "A Change (Will Do You Good)" and played the recurring role of loony neighbor Val Bassett, Grace Adler's nemesis, on Will & Grace, appearing in five episodes over the sitcom's eight-season run. In 1998, she played the role of Emily Sanderson in the film A Night at the Roxbury, featuring Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan who were also cast members of SNL at the time.

In 1999, Shannon starred alongside Will Ferrell, in Superstar, a feature film based on her most famous SNL character, Mary Katherine Gallagher, the awkward Catholic school student who aspires to be a musical superstar.

Shannon left SNL in 2001, surpassing Victoria Jackson as the show's longest-serving female cast member (she has since been surpassed by Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph, and Amy Poehler). Later, she acted in the 2003 romantic comedy My Boss's Daughter.

Molly Shannon in 1999, immediately after Lorne Michaels received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

In 2004, she starred in a short-lived Fox network television series Cracking Up with actor Jason Schwartzman. That same year, she guest starred in an episode of Scrubs and starred as Mrs. Baker in the film Good Boy! . In 2006, Shannon was featured in the Sofia Coppola directed movie Marie Antoinette as Aunt Victoire. The next year, Shannon guest starred on ABC's Pushing Daisies and the film Evan Almighty. Shannon also made a rare move to drama, appearing in the critically acclaimed film Year of the Dog in 2007.

Shannon hosted Saturday Night Live on May 12, 2007, making her the second former female cast member to host (after Julia Louis-Dreyfus).

Since September, 2008, Shannon has starred as Kath in the US version of the hit Australian sitcom Kath & Kim (U.S. TV series).

In 2008, she also starred in an episode of the comedy series Pushing Daisies and the TV movie More of Me.

Saturday Night Live characters

Original characters

  • Mary Katherine Gallagher, Shannon's best known character. An odd, outcast student at a Catholic school who enjoyed performing in the choir and school plays. Shannon starred in a 1999 feature film based on the character.
  • Sally O'Malley, a proud 50-year old dancer with a bouffant hairdo, who wore tight red pants and proclaimed how much she loved to "kick, stretch and kick!"
  • Helen Madden, an overly exuberant self-proclaimed "Joyologist", who appeared on talk shows with the trademark catchphrase "I love it, I love it!"
  • Jeannie Darcy, an unfunny mullet-haired stand-up comedian, who ended almost every joke with the phrase "Don't get me started, don't even get me started!"

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References

Sister project Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Molly Shannon
  1. ^ Cranky Critic StarTalk: Movie Star Interview with Molly Shannon
  2. ^ Molly Shannon Biography (1964-)
  3. ^ YouTube - Molly Shannon - Life Insurance Awareness Month 2007

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