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Molly Shannon
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American actress and comedian (born 1964)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1964
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Year of the Dog
- The (Dead Mothers) Club
- Superstar
- Hello, Molly!
- Tilly The Trickster
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Film & TV
Acting · Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
Molly Shannon (born September 16, 1964) is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2001. In 2017, she won the Film Independent Spirit Award for playing Joanne Mulcahey in the Chris Kelly autobiographical film Other People. Shannon appeared in supporting roles in several films, including Happiness (1998), A Night at…
Known for
- Balls Up — Burgess2026
- People We Meet on Vacation — Wanda Wright2026
- Driver's Ed — Principal Fisher2026
- The Hawk — Stacy2026
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self2025
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self2025
- Downey Wrote That — Self2025
- Everybody's Live with John Mulaney — Self - Actress and Comedian2025
- SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night — Self2025
- Will & Harper — Self2024
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1964
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 456
- Total plays
- 1,640
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Revised effective ionic radii and systematic studies of interatomic distances in halides and chalcogenides
· 1976 · cited 61,004x
- A Mathematical Theory of Communication
· 1948 · cited 53,286x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 45,779x
- Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis
· 2005 · cited 33,941x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,988x
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Quotes
- “If you're a woman who doesn't know how to write, you're going to cry every night. But if you do, no problem.”
- “When I was little I definitely was sad a lot and I used to dream. I used to get these obsessive crushes on non-available guys. Not any more, but that was my life for a long time.”
- “I think there's too much emphasis on beauty. I find it so limiting. I think just be yourself. Be who you are.”
- “Self acceptance is the sexiest thing to me.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1964-09-16 ) September 16, 1964 (age 61) , Shaker Heights , Ohio, U.S.
- Education
- New York University ( BFA )
- Occupations
- Actress comedian
- Years active
- 1983–present
- Spouse
- Fritz Chesnut ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2004 )
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Encyclopedic overview
Molly Shannon (born September 16, 1964) is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2001. In 2017, she won the Film Independent Spirit Award for playing Joanne Mulcahey in the Chris Kelly autobiographical film Other People.
Shannon appeared in supporting roles in several films, including Happiness (1998), A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Never Been Kissed (1999), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Wet Hot American Summer (2001), Serendipity (2001), Osmosis Jones (2001), My Boss's Daughter (2003), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), More of Me (2007), Evan Almighty (2007), and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015). She appeared in the animated films Igor (2008) and Hotel Transylvania (2012). On television, Shannon had roles in Enlightened (2013), Divorce (2016–2019), The Other Two (2019–2022), The White Lotus (2021), I Love That for You (2022), and Only Murders in the Building (2024), winning her first Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for the lattermost.
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