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Biography

Molly Shannon was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She was in a car crash at age 4 that killed her 34 year old mother,…more

Born

9/16/1964, Shaker Heights, Ohio

Birth Name

Molly Helen Shannon

Gender

Female

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Star (6)

Role
- Neighbors From Hell
  Tina Hellman
  - S 1: Ep 10 Fantastic 15
    7/26/10
  - S 1: Ep 9 Attila the Rascal
    7/19/10
  - S 1: Ep 8 Wolf Power
    7/19/10
  - S 1: Ep 6 Guns for Mutts
    7/12/10
  - S 1: Ep 7 Robert the Insult Weight Loss Robot
    7/12/10
  - + 5 More Credits
- Kath & Kim
  Kath Day
  - S 1: Ep 17 Home
    3/12/09
  - S 1: Ep 16 Bachelorette
    3/5/09
  - S 1: Ep 15 Desire
    2/26/09
  - S 1: Ep 14 Competition
    2/19/09
  - S 1: Ep 13 Celebrity
    2/12/09
  - + 12 More Credits
- Saturday Night Live
  Various
  - S 33: Ep 5 SNL Family Thanksgiving Leftovers
    11/24/07
  - — The Best of Darrell Hammond
    11/4/06
  - — The Best Of Alec Baldwin
    5/28/05
  - — The Best of Jimmy Fallon
    10/16/04
  - — The Best of Will Ferrell, Volume 2
    12/20/03
  - + 8 More Credits
- Saturday Night Live
  Herself
  - S 32: Ep 21 SNL in the 90s: Pop Culture Nation
    5/6/07
  - S 26: Ep 23 Christopher Walken/Weezer
    5/19/01
  - S 26: Ep 22 Mother's Day Special
    5/13/01
  - S 26: Ep 21 Lara Flynn Boyle/Bon Jovi
    5/12/01
  - S 26: Ep 16 Conan O'Brien/Don Henley
    3/10/01
  - + 120 More Credits
- The Amazing Screw-On Head
  Patience
  - S 1: Ep 1 Pilot
    7/27/06
- Cracking Up
  Lesley Shackleton
  - S 1: Ep 7 Prom Night
    4/5/04
  - S 1: Ep 6 Grudge Match
    3/29/04
  - S 1: Ep 5 Panic House
    3/22/04
  - S 1: Ep 4 Scared Straight
    3/15/04
  - S 1: Ep 3 Birds Do It
    3/10/04
  - + 8 More Credits
Recurring Role (3)

Role
- The Talk
  Guest Co-Host
  - S 2: Ep 20 Episode 215
    10/4/11
  - S 2: Ep 19 Episode 214
    10/3/11
  - S 2: Ep 13 Episode 208
    9/23/11
  - S 2: Ep 12 Episode 207
    9/22/11
  - S 2: Ep 11 Episode 206
    9/21/11
  - + 9 More Credits
- Saturday Night Live
  Herself
  - S 35: Ep 22 Betty White/Jay-Z
    5/8/10
- Will & Grace
  Val Bassett
  - S 7: Ep 3 One Gay At A Time
    9/30/04
  - S 4: Ep 23 Fagel Attraction
    4/25/02
  - S 3: Ep 23 Last Of The Really Odd Lovers
    5/10/01
  - S 2: Ep 20 Girls, Interrupted
    5/2/00
  - S 1: Ep 18 Grace, Replaced
    4/8/99
Guest Star (44)

Role
- The Middle
  Janet
  - S 3: Ep 10 Thanksgiving III
    11/23/11
- Up All Night
  Nancy
  - S 1: Ep 9 Hiring and Firing
    11/16/11
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
  Herself
  - S 8: Ep 55 Molly Shannon/Michael K. Williams
    11/10/11
  - S 3: Ep 139 Molly Shannon/Duane Martin/Ozomatli
    5/4/07
- Live! with Kelly
  Herself
  - S 22: Ep 178 June 7, 2010
    6/7/10
  - S 21: Ep 29 October 9, 2008
    10/9/08
- Live! with Kelly
  Guest Co-Host
  - S 21: Ep 200 June 16, 2009
    6/16/09
- TMZ
  Herself
  - S 2: Ep 92 Episode #2.092
    12/23/08
  - S 1: Ep 163 March 17, 2008
    3/17/08
- The Today Show
  Herself
  - S 57: Ep 204 October 9, 2008
    10/9/08
  - S 56: Ep 72 April 10, 2007
    4/10/07
- Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
  Herself
  - S 4: Ep 4 Otters, Cubs and Bears...Oh My!
    7/3/08
- Pushing Daisies
  Dilly Balsam
  - S 1: Ep 8 Bitter Sweets
    11/28/07
- American Dad!
  Kristy
  - S 4: Ep 2 Meter Made
    10/7/07
  - S 2: Ep 9 Not Particularly Desperate Housewives
    12/18/05
  - S 1: Ep 7 Deacon Stan, Jesus Man
    6/19/05
- Saturday Night Live
  Herself
  - S 32: Ep 19 Molly Shannon/Linkin Park
    5/12/07
  - S 26: Ep 19 Renee Zellweger/Eve
    4/14/01
- VH1's Top 20 Countdown
  Herself
  - S 6: Ep 16 April 21, 2007
    4/21/07
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien
  Self
  - S 14: Ep 2398 Molly Shannon, Tiki Barber, Of Montreal
    4/12/07
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  Guest
  - S 15: Ep 187 Craig T. Nelson; Molly Shannon; Sick Puppies
    4/5/07
  - S 12: Ep 171 Show #2667
    3/8/04
  - S 11: Ep 151 Show #2425
    2/6/03
  - S 10: Ep 40 Show #2106
    8/9/01
- The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet
  Molly Shannon
  - S 1: Ep 34 Morning Show with Mike and Juliet
    3/8/07
- 30 Rock
  Katherine Catherine
  - S 1: Ep 17 The Fighting Irish
    3/8/07
- Scrubs
  Denise
  - S 4: Ep 8 My Last Chance
    10/26/04
- Dinner For Five
  Herself
  - S 3: Ep 12 David Cross, Molly Shannon, George Hickenlooper, Phillip Baker Hall
    6/25/04
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show
  Herself
  - S 1: Ep 122 Christina Aguilera/Molly Shannon
    3/19/04
- On Air With Ryan Seacrest
  herself
  - S 1: Ep 44 3/10/04
    3/10/04
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien
  Guest
  - S 10: Ep 155 Colin Farrell, Molly Shannon, Smash
    8/6/03
  - S 10: Ep 77 Kurt Russell, Molly Shannon, Smilez & Southstar
    2/14/03
- Late Show with David Letterman
  Guest
  - S 10: Ep 105 Show #GH14
    3/14/03
  - S 6: Ep 132 Show #1197
    4/8/99
- Ed
  Linda Berringer
  - S 3: Ep 19 Babysitting
    3/12/03
- The View
  Herself
  - S 6: Ep 110 February 14, 2003
    2/14/03
  - S 5: Ep 13 October 10, 2001
    10/10/01
- The Muppet Show
  Herself
  - S 7: Ep 12 It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
    11/29/02
- Sex and the City
  Lily
  - S 5: Ep 7 The Big Journey
    9/1/02
  - S 5: Ep 4 Cover Girl
    8/11/02
  - S 5: Ep 2 Unoriginal Sin
    7/28/02
- TV Tales
  Herself
  - S 1: Ep 1 Saturday Night Live
    3/31/02
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show
  Herself
  - S 6: Ep 17 Show #1019
    10/3/01
  - S 5: Ep 52 Show #864
    11/15/00
  - S 4: Ep 118 Show #742
    3/11/00
  - S 4: Ep 16 Show #640
    9/29/99
  - S 3: Ep 151 Show #582
    4/28/99
  - + 1 More Credits
- Celebrity Adventures
  Herself
  - S 1: Ep 2 Molly Shannon-Africa
    9/24/01
- Ozzy & Drix
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 1 Osmosis Jones
    8/10/01
- Primetime Glick
  Herself
  - S 1: Ep 5 Molly Shannon / Nathan Lane
    7/18/01
- E! True Hollywood Story
  Herself
  - S 5: Ep 9 Joan Rivers (spoof)
    2/22/01
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
  Herself
  - S 2: Ep 70 Molly Shannon and Rob Reiner
    10/14/99
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
  Guest
  - S 4: Ep 44 Molly Shannon
    10/7/99
- Saturday Night Live
  Shania Twain
  - S 24: Ep 24 Saturday Night Live 25: The Music: 1995-1999
    9/24/99
- Seinfeld
  Sam
  - S 8: Ep 22 The Summer of George
    5/15/97
- The Single Guy
  Melody Pugh
  - S 2: Ep 15 Macho Men
    2/6/97
- Sister, Sister
  Cashier
  - S 1: Ep 10 Wedding Bells & Box Boys
    6/10/94
- Ellen
  Woman
  - S 1: Ep 8 The Houseguest
    5/24/94
- The John Larroquette Show
  Vivian
  - S 1: Ep 18 Another Average Night
    2/1/94
- In Living Color
  Police Trainee
  - S 4: Ep 22 Stacy Koon's Police Academy
    4/25/93
- General Hospital
  Surrogate Mother #2
  - S 30: Ep 2 Ep. #7650
    4/1/93
- Twin Peaks
  Judy Swain
  - S 2: Ep 12 Episode Nineteen
    1/12/91
- The Greatest
  Host
  - S 2: Ep 4 100 Greatest Moments That Rocked TV
Special Guest Star (2)

Role
- Glee
  Brenda Castle
  - S 1: Ep 19 Dream On
    5/18/10
  - S 1: Ep 17 Bad Reputation
    5/4/10
- The New Adventures of Old Christine
  Jeannie
  - S 5: Ep 11 It's Beginning to Stink a Lot Like Christmas
    12/16/09

Molly Shannon News

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Hey, How's It Going, Up All Night?

By Price Peterson, Mar 29, 2012

It's been 21 episodes. So how's NBC's freshman Thursday comedy holding up? read more
24

News Briefs: The Monkees Star Davy Jones Is Dead at 66

By Tim Surette, Mar 01, 2012

Plus: ABC Family extends Jane By Design, Margo Martindale joins a comedy, and Dane Cook might soon be all over your TV. read more

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Trivia
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- Molly grew up in the same neighborhood as fellow actors Paul Newman, Fred Willard and David Wain.
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- In 2000, Molly was nominated for an Emmy for her work on Saturday Night Live in the category of Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.
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- In 2000, Molly was nominated for a Blockbuster Entertainment Award in the category of Favorite Actress - Comedy for her role as Mary Katherine Gallagher in the 1999 film Superstar.
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- Molly: I was a leader in grade school, because I went to a small Catholic school. I bossed the girls around. I was very nice, but I was the leader. I'd say 'We're going to play house and I'm going to be the mother, you're going to be the other mother, we're going to pick our kids'. Everybody wanted to be in my family 'cause I was the best mother. In high school, things changed, I wasn't so popular.
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- Molly: I went to an academically competitive prep school, where the kids all knew one another. It was sort of tough. I didn't really fit in, I used to get obsessed with guys who were unavailable. It was sort of a hard, dark, time for me.
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- Molly: I was so honored when Lorne Michaels asked me to do a SNL movie, that I said yes immediately, without even knowing anything at all about the project!
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