FrameThrower · Actors · Molly Shannon
Molly Shannon
13 films · 950 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2000–2022
Born 16 September 1964 · Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
Molly Shannon is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2001. In 2017, she won the Film Independent Spirit Award for playing Joanne Mulcahey in the Chris Kelly autobiographical film Other People.
Shannon appeared in supporting roles in several films, including Happiness (1998), A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Never Been Kissed (1999), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Wet Hot American Summer (2001), Osmosis Jones (2001), My Boss's Daughter (2003), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), More of Me (2007), Evan Almighty (2007) and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 13 films · 950 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2000–2022
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series2024
- Film Independent Spirit Awards2017
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame2026
How their films are shot
Measured across 950 frames from the 13 films we hold. This is the look of the work Molly takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 13 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 45% natural — the look of the work Molly takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The (Dead Mothers) Club
2014 · Self
Casa De Mi Padre
2012 · Sheila
Year Of The Dog
2007 · Peggy
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
2022 · Wanda (voice)
Promising Young Woman
2020 · Mrs. Fisher
Private Life
2018 · Cynthia Grimes
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
2018 · Wanda (voice)
The Little Hours
2017 · Sister Marea
Hotel Transylvania 2
2015 · Wanda (voice)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2015 · Denise Kushner
Marie Antoinette
2006 · Aunt Victoire
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
2000 · Betty Lou Who
Hotel Transylvania
· Wanda (voice)
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 950 frames from Molly Shannon's 13 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.