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Biography

Personal life

Shannon was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio to an Irish American Catholic family.^[1] Her mother, Peg, 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. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Irish population density in the United States, 1872. ... Hawken School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory day school in Northeast Ohio. ...

Shannon married artist Fritz Chesnut on May 29, 2004. They have two children: daughter Stella (b. 2003), and son Nolan (b. 2005). is the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Career

Before Saturday Night Live, Shannon had a struggling career in films. She landed a supporting role as Meg in the present day sequences in the horror film remake of The Phantom of the Opera with Robert Englund and Jill Schoelen. 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: one featuring a fake commercial where Chris Rock (played by Shawn Wayans) is the spokesman for a credit card given to token black actors on TV shows with an all-white cast (coincidentally Saturday Night Live); the other featuring a sketch where a crooked police chief (Jim Carrey) gives new recruits lessons on how to commit police brutality. SNL redirects here. ... “Horror Movie” redirects here. ... Phantom of the Opera: The Motion Picture is 1989 film based on Gaston Lerouxs novel and was directed by Dwight H. Little // Synopsis A newer gorier version of the classic 1910 Gaston Leroux tale, has Nightmare on Elm Sts Robert Englund playing the Phantom. ... Robert Barton Englund (born June 6th, 1949), is an American actor from Glendale, California. ... For the hills in San Francisco, see Twin Peaks, San Francisco, California. ... In Living Color is a sketch comedy television series which ran on the FOX Network from April 15, 1990 to May 19, 1994. ... Christopher Julius Rock III[5] (born February 7, 1965)[6][7] is an Emmy Award winning American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. ... Shawn Wayans (born January 19, 1971 in New York City, New York) is an American actor and comedian who starred in In Living Color and The Wayans Bros. ... SNL redirects here. ... James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian-American A-list film actor and comedian. ...

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 overhauled his cast for season 21, after season 20 proved to be a critical and ratings disappointment. She played various recurring characters on the show, including 50-year old dancer Sally O'Malley (who constantly proclaimed her age), Goth Talk public access show host Circe Nightshade, quirky joyologist Helen Madden, and NPR radio co-host of Delicious Dish (with Ana Gasteyer). She was especially known for playing the character of neurotic, yet melodramatic Catholic school girl Mary Katherine Gallagher. SNL redirects here. ... Janeane Garofalo (born September 28, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist, writer and former co-host on Air America Radios The Majority Report. ... David Wayne Spade (born July 22, 1964) is an Emmy-Award and Golden Globe–nominated American actor, comedian, television personality who gained fame in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. ... Norm MacDonald Norman Gene MacDonald (born October 17, 1963) is a bilingual Canadian actor and comedian. ... Mark Douglas Brown McKinney (born June 26, 1959) is a Canadian comedian and actor, best known for his work in the long-running sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall. ... Tim Meadows (born February 5, 1961) is an American actor and comedian. ... Lorne Michaels (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian Emmy-winning television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it. ... Since the humble beginnings of Saturday Night Live, the show has been something of an anti-television show, turning the medium on its head with endless fake commercials and parodies of TV shows themselves. ... NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ... Ana Kristina Gasteyer (born May 4, 1967) is an American actress and comedian. ... Catholic schools are education ministries of the Roman Catholic Church. ... Mary Katherine Gallagher is a fictional character invented and portrayed by Saturday Night Live star Molly Shannon. ...

On a noteworthy Seinfeld episode called "The Summer of George", she played Sam, the co-worker who drove Elaine Benes crazy because she didn't 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. Seinfeld is an Emmy Award-winning American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989 to May 14, 1998, running a total of 9 seasons. ... The Summer of George is the 156th episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. ... Elaine Marie Benes is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. ... Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American blues rock singer, guitarist, bassist, and songwriter. ... Information Nickname(s) Gracie, G, Gracious Gender Unknown Age 30 at series beginning (Series began in March 1998, Grace turned 31 in April 1998), 38 or 39 by series end Date of birth April 26, 1967 Occupation Interior Designer Title Mrs. ... Will & Grace is a popular American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006. ...

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In 1989, Shannon was featured in "The Phantom of the Opera" with Robert Englund and Jill Schoelen as Meg in New York (Meg in London was played by Emma Rawson). Shannon left SNL in 2001 (surpassing Victoria Jackson as the show's longest-serving female cast member). In 1998, she played the role of Emily Sanderson in A Night at the Roxbury, featuring Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan who were also cast members of SNL at the time. In 1999, she reprised her Mary Katherine Gallagher character for the movie Superstar, and had a supporting role in Never Been Kissed. In 2004, she starred in a Fox network television series Cracking Up with actor Jason Schwartzman. It lasted only nine episodes before cancellation. She guest starred in an episode of Scrubs that same year. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... SNL redirects here. ... Jan Hooks, Dolly Parton, and Jackson in a 1989 SNL sketch. ... A Night at the Roxbury is a 1998 comedy film based on a recurring skit on televisions long-running Saturday Night Live. ... John William Ferrell (born July 16, 1967)[1] is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American comedian, actor and writer who first established himself as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and has since gone on to a successful film career, starring in the comedies A Night at the... Christopher Lee Kattan (born October 19, 1970) is an American comedian, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live. ... Superstar is a 1999 comedy movie and Saturday Night Live spin-off about a quirky, socially inept girl named Mary Katherine Gallagher. ... Never Been Kissed is a 1999 comedy directed by Raja Gosnell and starring Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan, Molly Shannon, Leelee Sobieski, John C. Reilly, Jessica Alba, Marley Shelton, James Franco, Giuseppe Andrews, Jeremy Jordan and Garry Marshall. ... This article is about the animal. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Cracking Up was a short-lived American television sitcom created by School of Rock writer Mike White. ... Scrubs is an Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning American situation comedy/comedy-drama that premiered on October 2, 2001 on NBC. It was created by Bill Lawrence and is produced by Touchstone Television. ...

In 2004, Shannon played "Mrs. Baker" in Good Boy! starring Liam Aiken as her son, Owen, and Matthew Broderick as the voice of her son's dog, Hubble. In 2006, Shannon was featured in the Sofia Coppola directed movie Marie Antoinette as Aunt Victoire. In 2007, Shannon guest starred on ABC's Pushing Daisies and in the films Year of the Dog and Evan Almighty. Good Boy! movie cover Good Boy! was a moderately successful movie produced by Jim Henson Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, starring talking alien dogs. ... Liam Padraic Aiken (born January 7, 1990) is an American actor who has starred in a number of films, most notably as Klaus Baudelaire in A Series of Unfortunate Events. ... Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is a Tony Award-winning American film and stage actor who is best known for his roles as the title character in Ferris Buellers Day Off and the adult Simba in Disneys The Lion King. ... Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American film director, actress, producer and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. ... Marie Antoinette is an American Academy Award-winning 2006 film written and directed by Sofia Coppola about the life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. ... Victoire Louise Marie Thérèse (May 11, 1733 - June 7, 1799) was the seventh child and fifth daughter of King Louis XV of France and his Queen consort Maria Leszczyńska. ... Pushing Daisies is a Golden Globe-nominated American television dramedy created by Bryan Fuller (creator of Dead Like Me and co-creator of Wonderfalls) who also serves as executive producer alongside Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Brooke Kennedy (episodes 2-7), Peter Ocko (episodes 8-present) and Barry Sonnenfeld. ... Year of the Dog is a film written and directed by Mike White and starring Molly Shannon, Laura Dern, Regina King, Tom McCarthy, Josh Pais, John C. Reilly, and Peter Sarsgaard. ... Evan Almighty is a 2007 comedy film, and sequel to the 2003 film Bruce Almighty. ...

Shannon hosted Saturday Night Live on May 12, 2007, making her the second former female castmember of SNL to host (after Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and the first to have worked for Lorne Michaels (Louis-Dreyfus worked for Dick Ebersol from 1982 to 1985). This article is about the American actress. ... Lorne Michaels (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian Emmy-winning television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it. ...

It was revealed in 2007 she will play Kath in the US Version of Kath & Kim. Kath & Kim is a Logie Award-winning character-driven Australian television comedy series, created by Jane Turner and Gina Riley. ...

SNL celebrity impersonations

• Courtney Love
• Monica Lewinsky
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Björk
• Ann Miller
• Tori Amos

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External links

• Molly Shannon Official Fansite
• Molly Shannon at the Internet Movie Database
• The Career Cookbook Molly Shannon Profile
• Maxim Rated Top SNL performer
• ontheinside.info/Molly Shannon