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Molly Shannon is the latest in a distinguished list of "Saturday Night Live" alumni to bring a starring vehicle to the big screen. The wheels from New York to Hollywood... started turning with the Class of '75. Click here to test your knowledge of the "Saturday Night Live" original cast members who moved on to the silver screen.
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Saturday Night Live alumna Molly Shannon is set to star as Kath in Kath & Kim, NBC's pilot adapted from an Australian comedy. The role of the daughter has yet to be cast, says the Reporter.... Sopranos shrink Lorraine Bracco has joined the Lifetime pilot Long Island Confidential, playing mom to a female detective (Alison Elliott).... read more
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Before "Saturday Night Live," Molly Shannon had a struggling career in films. She landed a supporting role as Meg in the present day sequences in the horror film remake of The Phantom of the Opera with Robert Englund and Jill Schoelen. In 1993, she appeared in a supporting role in an episode of In Living Color ("Police Brutality Training"). Shannon's major break came in February 1995 when she was hired as a featured player on Saturday Night Live to replace Janeane Garofalo after Garofalo left mid-season. Shannon was one of the few castmembers to be kept when Lorne Michaels overhauled his cast for season 21 after season 20 proved to be a critical and ratings disappointment (along with David Spade, Norm MacDonald, Mark McKinney, and Tim Meadows). She played various recurring characters on the show, including 50-year old dancer Sally O'Mally (who constantly proclaimed her age), quirky joyologist Helen Madden, and NPR radio co-host of Delicious Dish (with Ana Gasteyer).
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Molly Shannon, the subject of this week’s 20 Questions, has had a long career in comedy. She hit it big in 1995 when she joined the cast of “Saturday Night Live,” where she most famously played Mary Katherine Gallagher. She left the show in 2001 but played Gallagher in the 1999 movie “Superstar”; she ... had a supporting role in “Never Been Kissed.”
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Molly Shannon left SNL in 2001 (surpassing Victoria Jackson as the show's longest-serving female cast member). In 1998, she played the role of Emily Sanderson in A Night at the Roxbury, featuring Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan who were ... cast members of SNL at the time. In 1999, she reprised her Mary Katherine Gallagher character for the movie Superstar, and had a supporting role in Never Been Kissed. In 2004, she starred in a Fox network television series Cracking Up with actor Jason Schwartzman. It lasted only nine episodes before cancellation. She guest starred in an episode of Scrubs that same year.
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Molly Shannon, who has a voice role in the upcoming animated film Igor, told SCI FI Wire that she plays Eva, a monster who's sweeter than she first appears. The story follows the adventures of Igor (John Cusack), an ambitious and hunchbacked assistant to a mad scientist named Dr. Glickenstein (John Cleese). Igor creates Eva, an indestructible creature.
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