Molly Shannon
Molly Shannon, the vivacious comedian with the twinkling blue eyes and elfin grin, started out as a mid-season replacement on "Saturday Night Live" (NBC, 1975- ). By the time she left in 2001 to pursue a film career, Shannon had become the longest-running female cast member on a program famously male-dominated for decades. With impeccable comedic timing and little regard for her personal safety - like Gilda Radner years before her - Shannon impressed producers and writers with a chutzpah that matched her talent, performing her own stunts with reckless abandon and creating some of the show's most memorable characters, including Mary Katherine Gallagher, a sexually overripe Catholic school girl who was an exaggerated version of Shannon's own dorky childhood self. After leaving the safety of 30 Rock, Shannon segued easily into big screen comedies like "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" (2006) and "Evan Almighty" (2007), and surprised critics with her touching lead turn in the dark comedy, "Year of the Dog" (2007). Although her first attempt at sitcom stardom, mother-daughter sitcom "Kath & Kim" (NBC, 2008-09), only lasted a single season, Shannon matured into an eclectic character actress, taking on both broad and subtle turns in films ranging from animated hit "Hotel Transylvania" (2012) and its 2015 sequel to indie dysfunctional family comedy-drama "Other People" (2015), coming of age hit "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" (2015), and Jeff Baena's "The Little Hours" (2017), in which she played a Mother Superior in a 14th-century Italian convent. With success on both the big and small screens, this funny girl proved she had staying power beyond her initial "SNL" characterizations.
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Molly Shannon
Filmography
Movies
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58% |
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A Good Person | Diane (Character) | $2.2M | 2023 |
47% |
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Spin Me Round | Deb (Character) | - | 2022 |
100% |
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Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special | Self | - | 2022 |
47% |
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Hotel Transylvania: Transformania | Wanda (Voice) | - | 2022 |
90% |
|
Promising Young Woman | Mrs. Fisher (Character) | $6.4M | 2020 |
72% |
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Horse Girl | Joan (Character) | - | 2020 |
67% |
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Jay and Silent Bob Reboot | Joline (Character) | $2.8M | 2019 |
21% |
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Sextuplets | Linda (Character) | - | 2019 |
89% |
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Wild Nights With Emily | Adult Emily (Character) | $519.2K | 2018 |
94% |
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Private Life | Cynthia (Character) | - | 2018 |
62% |
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Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation | Wanda (Voice) | $167.5M | 2018 |
66% |
|
Half Magic | Mistress Valesca (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Royal Wedding Live with Cord and Tish! | Unknown (Character) | - | 2018 |
0% |
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The Layover | Nancy (Character) | - | 2017 |
35% |
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Fun Mom Dinner | Jamie (Character) | - | 2017 |
78% |
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The Little Hours | Mother Superior (Character) | $1.6M | 2017 |
No Score Yet |
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We Don't Belong Here | Deborah (Character) | - | 2017 |
70% |
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Miles | Pam Walton (Character) | $2.1K | 2016 |
21% |
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Nerdland | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2016 |
87% |
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Other People | Joanne (Character) | $62.6K | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Come Simi | Go Pilot (Voice) | - | 2015 |
32% |
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Addicted to Fresno | Margaret (Character) | - | 2015 |
57% |
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Hotel Transylvania 2 | Wanda (Voice) | - | 2015 |
81% |
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | Denise Kushner (Character) | $6.6M | 2015 |
No Score Yet |
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Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant | Emily McCoy (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Club | Self | - | 2014 |
46% |
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Life After Beth | Geenie (Character) | $80.3K | 2014 |
50% |
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Trust Me | Janice (Character) | - | 2013 |
4% |
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Scary Movie V | Heather Daltry (Character) | $32.0M | 2013 |
45% |
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Hotel Transylvania | Wanda (Voice) | $167.9M | 2012 |
45% |
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Bad Teacher | Melody (Character) | $100.3M | 2011 |
14% |
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What Goes Up | Penelope (Character) | - | 2009 |
40% |
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Igor | Eva (Voice) | $19.5M | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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More of Me | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
24% |
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Evan Almighty | Eve Adams (Character) | $100.3M | 2007 |
70% |
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Year of the Dog | Peggy (Character) | $1.5M | 2007 |
21% |
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Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace | Trish (Character) | $21.9K | 2006 |
8% |
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Gray Matters | Carrie (Character) | $59.6K | 2006 |
57% |
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Marie Antoinette | Anne Victoire (Character) | $16.0M | 2006 |
72% |
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | Mrs. Dennit (Character) | $148.2M | 2006 |
12% |
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Little Man | Suburban Mom (Character) | $58.3M | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie | Jackie Frost (Voice) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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12 Days of Christmas Eve | Angie (Character) | - | 2004 |
40% |
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The Music Man | Mrs. Eulalie MacKechnie Shinn (Character) | - | 2003 |
44% |
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Good Boy! | Mrs. Baker (Character) | $37.6M | 2003 |
7% |
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My Boss's Daughter | Audrey (Character) | $15.5M | 2003 |
94% |
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American Splendor | Stage Actor Joyce (Character) | $6.0M | 2003 |
59% |
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Serendipity | Eve (Character) | $50.2M | 2001 |
55% |
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Osmosis Jones | Mrs. Boyd (Character) | $13.6M | 2001 |
38% |
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Wet Hot American Summer | Gail (Character) | $292.1K | 2001 |
49% |
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Betty Lou Who (Character) | $260.4M | 2000 |
0% |
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My 5 Wives | Barbara Van Dyke (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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My Neighbors the Yamadas | Matsuko Yamada (Voice) | - | 1999 |
32% |
|
Superstar |
Mary Katherine Gallagher (Character), Writer |
$30.6M | 1999 |
55% |
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Never Been Kissed | Anita Olesky (Character) | $55.5M | 1999 |
69% |
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Analyze This | Caroline (Character) | $106.8M | 1999 |
11% |
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A Night at the Roxbury | Emily Sanderson (Character) | $30.3M | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Dinner & Driving | Arguing Woman in Cafe (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Return to Two Moon Junction | Traci (Character) | - | 1994 |
33% |
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The Phantom of the Opera | Meg (New York) (Character) | $4.1M | 1989 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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97% | 89% | Only Murders in the Building | Bev Melon (Character) | 2024 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2015-2018 2024 |
85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Katya (Guest Voice) | 2024 |
97% | 83% | The Other Two | Pat (Character) | 2019 2021 2023 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Saturday Night Live |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Guest Star), Host |
1991 1995-2001 2007 2010 2023 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2015-2016 2018-2019 2021 2023 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2008 2011 2021 2023 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Bob's Burgers | Millie (Guest Voice) | 2013 2015 2017 2021-2022 |
81% | 87% | I Love That for You | Jackie Stilton (Character) | 2022 |
No Score Yet | 28% | The Drew Barrymore Show | Guest | 2021-2022 |
No Score Yet | 18% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2016 2022 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2018-2019 2022 |
74% | 74% | Will & Grace | Val (Guest Star) | 2018-2020 |
78% | 72% | Divorce | Diane (Character) | 2016 2018-2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2011 2013 2016-2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen | Guest | 2016-2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Who Do You Think You Are? | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2013-2014 2016 2018 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Wet Hot American Summer - Ten Years Later | Gail von Kleinenstein (Character) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 84% | Life in Pieces | Allie (Guest Star) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Patricia Heaton Parties | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
85% | 71% | Wet Hot American Summer | Gail von Kleinenstein (Character) | 2015 |
47% | 44% | The Millers | Miss Pam (Guest Star) | 2014-2015 |
69% | 75% | Benched | Judge Conner (Guest Star) | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hollywood Game Night | Guest | 2013-2014 |
96% | 90% | Raising Hope | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013-2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Doc McStuffins | Rita the Cheetah (Guest Star) | 2014 |
32% | 61% | Super Fun Night | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
93% | 94% | Hannibal | Kidnapper (Guest Star) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 88% | The Middle | Janet (Guest Star) | 2011 2013 |
88% | 89% | Enlightened | Eileen (Guest Star) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2010 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Happily Divorced | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 59% | Web Therapy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
67% | 64% | Up All Night | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2011-2012 |
36% | No Score Yet | Neighbors From Hell | Unknown (Voice) | 2010 |
70% | 72% | Glee | Brenda Castle (Guest Star) | 2010 |
89% | 77% | The New Adventures of Old Christine | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
20% | No Score Yet | Kath & Kim | Kath Day (Character) | 2008-2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Conan O'Brien | Guest | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sesame Street | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
96% | 95% | Pushing Daisies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 90% | American Dad! | Kristy (Guest Voice) | 2005 2007 |
78% | 92% | 30 Rock | Katherine Catherine (Guest Star) | 2007 |
83% | 86% | Scrubs | Denise (Guest Star) | 2004 |
No Score Yet | 88% | Will & Grace | Val Bassett (Guest Star) | 1999-2002 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cracking Up | Lesley Shackleton (Character) | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ed | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
70% | 80% | Sex and the City | Lily Martin (Guest Star) | 2002 |
89% | 92% | Seinfeld | Sam (Guest Star) | 1997 |
75% | No Score Yet | The Single Guy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In Living Color | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1993 |
78% | 92% | Twin Peaks | Judy Swain (Guest Star) | 1991 |