Molly Shannon
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Birthplace:
Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
Another Saturday Night Live cast member who has taken her act to the big screen, Molly Shannon is probably best known to TV and film audiences as Mary Katherine Gallagher, the hapless, armpit-sniffing Catholic school girl she originated on SNL and then brought to multiplexes everywhere as the heroine of Superstar.Born in Shaker Heights, a posh suburb of Cleveland, on September 16, 1964, Shannon developed a proclivity for performing at an early age and dreamt of being famous. After receiving a Catholic school education, she earned a B.F.A. in drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Circle in the Square Studio. Armed with her diploma, she headed West to L.A., where she proceeded to struggle in relative poverty and almost complete obscurity for the next nine years. Although she occasionally found bit parts in film and on such TV series as Seinfeld, Shannon mainly supported herself with odd jobs and waitressing. Finally, in 1994, she got her big break when she won a spot on Saturday Night Live. After making her debut during the 1995 season, Shannon became exceedingly popular with audiences, thanks to her impersonations of the likes of Monica Lewinsky, and Courtney Love.In 1998, Shannon joined fellow SNL cast members Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan to appear in the disastrous A Night at the Roxbury; the following year, she brought her own alter ego to the screen in Superstar. The film earned drastically mixed reviews, although it did fare somewhat better than any number of other SNL film adaptations. Also in 1999, Shannon played Drew Barrymore's newsroom colleague in Never Been Kissed and had a supporting role alongside Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, and Lisa Kudrow in Analyze This. She subsequently starred alongside Jim Carrey in Ron Howard's 2000 screen adaptation of The Grinch.She continued to work primarily in comedies including Wet Hot American Summer, Good Boy, American Splendor, Scary Movie 4, Little Man, and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. After a small part in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, she starred in the Mike White film Year of the Dog, and appeared in the big-budget sequel Evan Almighty. She had a short-lived sitcom, Kath & Kim, before appearing in a number of animated films including Igor, Snow Buddies, and Hotel Transylvania. In 2012 she could be seen opposite her old SNL castmate Will Ferrell in the Spanish-language comedy Casa de mi Padre.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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91% | Promising Young Woman |
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— | 2020 |
70% | Horse Girl |
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— | 2020 |
89% | Wild Nights with Emily |
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— | 2019 |
14% | Sextuplets |
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— | 2019 |
93% | Private Life |
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— | 2018 |
62% | Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation |
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— | 2018 |
55% | Half Magic |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | The Royal Wedding Live with Cord and Tish! |
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— | 2018 |
0% | The Layover |
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— | 2017 |
32% | Fun Mom Dinner |
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— | 2017 |
78% | The Little Hours |
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$1.7M | 2017 |
70% | Miles |
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$2.6k | 2017 |
No Score Yet | We Don't Belong Here |
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— | 2017 |
85% | Other People |
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$63.1k | 2016 |
21% | Nerdland |
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— | 2016 |
30% | Addicted To Fresno |
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— | 2015 |
55% | Hotel Transylvania 2 |
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— | 2015 |
71% | I Am Chris Farley |
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— | 2015 |
52% | Live From New York! |
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— | 2015 |
81% | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant |
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— | 2015 |
5% | Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 |
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— | 2015 |
45% | Life After Beth |
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— | 2014 |
52% | Trust Me |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | The Club |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | The (Dead Mothers) Club |
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— | 2014 |
4% | Scary Movie 5 |
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$32.1M | 2013 |
45% | Hotel Transylvania |
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$148.3M | 2012 |
64% | The Five-Year Engagement |
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$28.7M | 2012 |
42% | Casa de mi padre |
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$5.9M | 2012 |
45% | Bad Teacher |
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$100.3M | 2011 |
16% | What Goes Up |
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— | 2009 |
39% | Igor |
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$19.5M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Snow Buddies |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | The Wedding Weekend |
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— | 2008 |
23% | Evan Almighty |
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$100.3M | 2007 |
8% | Gray Matters |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | More of Me |
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— | 2007 |
57% | Marie Antoinette |
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$16M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Amazing Screw-On Head |
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— | 2006 |
71% | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby |
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$148.3M | 2006 |
12% | Little Man |
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$58.3M | 2006 |
35% | Scary Movie 4 |
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$90.7M | 2006 |
20% | Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Air Buddies |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 12 Days of Christmas Eve |
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— | 2004 |
84% | Mean Girls |
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$86M | 2004 |
44% | Good Boy! |
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$37.6M | 2003 |
8% | My Boss's Daughter |
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— | 2003 |
94% | American Splendor |
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$6M | 2003 |
No Score Yet | The Music Man |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Saturday Night Live - Best of Molly Shannon |
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— | 2003 |
82% | It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie |
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— | 2002 |
56% | The Santa Clause 2 |
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$139.3M | 2002 |
49% | Shallow Hal |
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$70.8M | 2001 |
58% | Serendipity |
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$50M | 2001 |
55% | Osmosis Jones |
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$12.4M | 2001 |
38% | Wet Hot American Summer |
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— | 2001 |
42% | Dr. Dolittle 2 |
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$111.5M | 2001 |
49% | Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
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$259.1M | 2000 |
0% | My 5 Wives |
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— | 2000 |
32% | Superstar |
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— | 1999 |
55% | Never Been Kissed |
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— | 1999 |
69% | Analyze This |
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— | 1999 |
78% | My Neighbors the Yamadas |
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— | 1999 |
81% | Happiness |
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— | 1998 |
9% | A Night at the Roxbury |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Dinner and Driving |
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— | 1997 |
11% | Lawnmower Man 2 - Jobe's War (Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace) |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Return To Two Moon Junction |
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— | 1993 |
38% | The Phantom of the Opera |
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— | 1989 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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94% |
The Other Two
2019
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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74% |
Will & Grace
2017
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78% |
Divorce
2016-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
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No Score Yet |
Close Up With the Hollywood Reporter
2015
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No Score Yet |
Spy Kids: Mission Critical
2018
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No Score Yet |
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010-2018
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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No Score Yet |
Conan
2010
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No Score Yet |
The Talk
2010
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No Score Yet |
Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen
2009
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No Score Yet |
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2015-2019
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No Score Yet |
Wet Hot American Summer:
2017
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No Score Yet |
Life in Pieces
2015-2019
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91% |
Bob's Burgers
2011
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84% |
Animals.
2016-2018
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No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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No Score Yet |
Charlie Rose
2013-2017
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84% |
Wet Hot American Summer
2015-2017
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92% |
Getting On
2013-2015
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47% |
The Millers
2013-2015
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No Score Yet |
Hollywood Game Night
2013
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96% |
Raising Hope
2010-2014
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87% |
Enlightened
2011-2013
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44% |
Happily Divorced
2011-2013
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No Score Yet |
Jessie
2011-2015
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32% |
Super Fun Night
2013-2014
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No Score Yet |
The Middle
2009-2018
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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17% |
Partners
2012
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70% |
Up All Night
2011-2013
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No Score Yet |
Web Therapy
2011-2014
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70% |
Glee
2009-2015
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36% |
Neighbors From Hell
2010
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No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live
1975
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89% |
The New Adventures of Old Christine
2006-2010
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20% |
Kath & Kim
2008-2009
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No Score Yet |
American Dad (target for inaccurate feed data)
2005
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78% |
30 Rock
2006-2020
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96% |
Pushing Daisies
2007-2009
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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83% |
Scrubs
2001-2010
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No Score Yet |
Will & Grace
1998-2006
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No Score Yet |
Ed
2000-2004
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No Score Yet |
Johnny Bravo
1997-2004
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70% |
Sex and the City
1998-2004
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89% |
Seinfeld
1989-1998
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No Score Yet |
Rhett and Link's Buddy System
2016-2017
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Quotes from Molly Shannon's Characters
Margaret: | That's one hundred dicks. |
Peggy: | This is my love. It is mine, and it fills me and it defines me and it compels me on. |
Peggy: | I've always been disappointed by people. I've only been able to really count on my pets. |
Al: | Accidents can happen. That's why I never keep guns in my house. |
Peggy: | That's good. |
Al: | Just knives. |
Mary Katherine Gallagher: | (to Evian) Go drink a bottle of yourself! |
Mary Katherine Gallagher: | [to Evian] Go drink a bottle of yourself! |