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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. 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. Career īefore 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 attended New York University, where she studied drama and graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1987. Dominic School in Shaker Heights for grade school, and Hawken School in Gates Mills, Ohio. When Shannon was four years old, her mother, younger sister, and cousin died in a car accident while her father was driving under the influence. Her maternal grandparents were born in Ireland, with her grandfather being from Cloghmore, Achill, Mayo. Her mother, Mary Margaret 'Peg' (née Keating), was a teacher, and her father, James Francis Shannon, was a sales manager. Shannon was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, on September 16, 1964, to an Irish-American Catholic family. In television, Shannon is known for her roles in Enlightened (2013), Divorce (2016–2019), The White Lotus (2021) and I Love That For You (2022).

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Her voice can also be heard in the animated films Igor (2008) and the Hotel Transylvania film series (2012–2022). 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), Wet Hot American Summer (2001), reprising her character in the miniseries Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015), and its follow-up Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (2017), 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).

In 2017, she won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film Other People. 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.