Molly Helen Shannon (born September 16, 1964) is an American actress
and comedian who was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to
2001. In 2017 she won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best
Supporting Actress for her role in the film Other People.She has
appeared in supporting roles in a number of films, such as Happiness
(1998), A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Never Been Kissed (1999), How
the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Osmosis Jones (2001), My Boss's
Daughter (2003), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006),
and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015). Her voice can also be heard
in the animated films Igor (2008) and the Hotel Transylvania film
series (2012-2018).Shannon was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, on
September 16, 1964, to an Irish American Catholic family. Her mother,
Mary Margaret "Peg" (née Keating), was a teacher, and her father,
James Francis Shannon, was a sales manager. Her maternal grandparents
were born in Ireland, with her grandfather being from Cloghmore,
Achill, Mayo. At age four, Shannon was involved in a car accident
which killed her mother, younger sister, and cousin. Shannon attended
St. Dominic School in Shaker Heights for grade school, and Hawken
School in Gates Mills, Ohio. She attended New York University, where
she studied drama and graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in
1987.Before Saturday Night Live, Shannon worked as a hostess at
Cravings restaurant on Sunset Boulevard and as a food demo girl at
Gelson's super market in Marina Del Rey. She auditioned for her first
big film role and was cast, playing the supporting part of 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 as "the happy helping hand lady", and in 1993, she appeared
with minor roles in three episodes of In Living Color, the first in a
fake TV commercial with Shawn Wayans playing Chris Rock, the second in
a sketch with Jim Carrey, playing LAPD Sergeant Stacey Koon, and third
being a parody of Star Trek.
and comedian who was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to
2001. In 2017 she won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best
Supporting Actress for her role in the film Other People.She has
appeared in supporting roles in a number of films, such as Happiness
(1998), A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Never Been Kissed (1999), How
the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Osmosis Jones (2001), My Boss's
Daughter (2003), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006),
and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015). Her voice can also be heard
in the animated films Igor (2008) and the Hotel Transylvania film
series (2012-2018).Shannon was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, on
September 16, 1964, to an Irish American Catholic family. Her mother,
Mary Margaret "Peg" (née Keating), was a teacher, and her father,
James Francis Shannon, was a sales manager. Her maternal grandparents
were born in Ireland, with her grandfather being from Cloghmore,
Achill, Mayo. At age four, Shannon was involved in a car accident
which killed her mother, younger sister, and cousin. Shannon attended
St. Dominic School in Shaker Heights for grade school, and Hawken
School in Gates Mills, Ohio. She attended New York University, where
she studied drama and graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in
1987.Before Saturday Night Live, Shannon worked as a hostess at
Cravings restaurant on Sunset Boulevard and as a food demo girl at
Gelson's super market in Marina Del Rey. She auditioned for her first
big film role and was cast, playing the supporting part of 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 as "the happy helping hand lady", and in 1993, she appeared
with minor roles in three episodes of In Living Color, the first in a
fake TV commercial with Shawn Wayans playing Chris Rock, the second in
a sketch with Jim Carrey, playing LAPD Sergeant Stacey Koon, and third
being a parody of Star Trek.
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