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| Birth Name(s) : Molly Shannon |
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Full Molly Shannon Biography
Shannon was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio to an Irish American Catholic family. Her mother, Peg, was a teacher, and her father, James F. Shannon, was a sales manager. Shannon was involved in a traumatic car accident when she was four years old which killed her mother, younger sister, and cousin. Shannon attended Saint Dominic's 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).
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 1993, she appeared in a supporting role in an episode of In Living Color ("Police Brutality Training").
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.
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.
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). |
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