Let’s look back at 25 of the legend’s best performances, big and small
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Netflix, HBO, Columbia Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures, Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures Molly Shannon is currently having a moment — one that is long overdue, and we’re all lucky to be along for the ride. Fresh off her scene-stealing role in The White Lotus, the SNL alum is currently taking center stage in the long-awaited second season of HBO Max’s The Other Two.
24. Serendipity No funny female character actor’s filmography is truly complete without a turn as the best friend in a rom-com, and in Serendipity, Shannon did just that, playing confidante to Kate Beckinsale’s superstitious Sara. Her character is dragged along on, and then unintentionally facilitates, Sara’s mission to track down her serendipitous love interest in New York.
20. Bob’s Burgers For a woman who is so animated in real life, Shannon is obviously a natural for literal animation. She’s had several guest appearances on Bob’s Burgers as Millie, a fourth-grader who is obsessed with befriending Louise Belcher, much to Louise’s horror. Shannon delivers a hauntingly maniacal cackle in the role, and at a pitch slightly higher than her normal voice, it might take viewers a moment to identify her.
16. Never Been Kissed As the flirty Anita in this classic Drew Barrymore rom-com, Shannon doesn’t just steal the show as Josie’s work confidante but gets an iconic scene of her own in the middle of the film when she attempts to visit her colleague’s undercover operation. Mistaken as the sex-ed guest speaker, Anita gets roped into addressing Josie’s high-school class on the subject, delivering the classic line, “Sex, um, what do you say, really? You like a guy, you do it with him.
12. Enlightened Before The White Lotus made Mike White an HBO darling, he and Laura Dern created the painfully underappreciated Enlightened that ran for two seasons on the network . In the cult-classic series, Dern’s Amy Jellicoe suffers a nervous breakdown that ultimately leads to her takedown of her corrupt corporate workplace from within.
8. Saturday Night Live Hired as a mid-season replacement for Janeane Garofalo in 1995, and then being one of the only five cast members to survive the following season’s cast overhaul, Shannon spent six years at Saturday Night Live. Those six seasons could be a list in and of itself.
4. Divorce Before there was And Just Like That …, Sarah Jessica Parker’s big return to HBO was Divorce. From Catastrophe creator and star Sharon Horgan, the show stars Thomas Haden Church and SJP as a divorcing couple, with Shannon as the eccentric friend of Parker’s character. Shannon’s performance and Horgan’s script are a phenomenal match, outdoing each other at every turn in an endless upward spiral.
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