Shannon Woodward
| Shannon Woodward | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Shannon Marie Woodward December 17, 1984 Phoenix, Arizona |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1991–present |
Shannon Marie Woodward (born December 17, 1984) is an American actress known for playing Sabrina on Raising Hope and Di Di Malloy on The Riches. She has been cast in the upcoming HBO series Westworld.[1]
Early life
As a child, she moved with her family to Florida, where she attended Olympic Heights Community High School in Boca Raton. There, she began acting and later caught the attention of a casting director for Nickelodeon's Clarissa Explains It All. She also starred in several local community plays. At age 18 she met "best friend" Katy Perry in LA.
Career
Woodward's first on-screen acting job came in 1991 when she played the occasionally recurring role of Missy on cable network Nickelodeon's Clarissa Explains It All. She reprised this role twice during the show's five seasons.
After her sitcom debut, Woodward won small parts in a trio of made-for-TV movies. First, alongside Clarissa star Melissa Joan Hart in the 1995 made-for-TV drama Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare. Then in 1995, she played Lucy in her second made-for-TV film, Tornado!. In 1997 she played an uncredited role in the CBS miniseries True Women.
Between 2000 and 2007, Woodward played a number of minor roles in various television shows including The Drew Carey Show, Grounded for Life, Malcolm in the Middle, Crossing Jordan, Without a Trace, Psych, and Boston Public.
Woodward's big-screen debut came in 2005 when she played Emma Sharp, the daughter of Texas Ranger Roland Sharp (Tommy Lee Jones), who is assigned to protect a group of University of Texas cheerleaders who witnessed a murder in the action comedy Man of the House.
In 2007, Woodward got her big break in the series The Riches, which aired for two seasons (2007–2008) on cable network FX. She played the role of Di Di Malloy, the teen daughter and middle child in an American family of Irish Travellers. In the series, Di Di, along with her parents Dahlia and Wayne (Minnie Driver, Eddie Izzard), and her brothers Cael and Sam (Noel Fisher, Aidan Mitchell) find themselves personally conflicted after stealing the identity of a wealthy couple and trying to assimilate into "buffer" culture in an upscale gated community in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
After The Riches ended, Woodward played the role of Leah in the teen supernatural/horror film The Haunting of Molly Hartley.
Woodward's return to TV was the 2009 pilot Limelight, about a New York City school for performing arts. The series was not picked up.
That same year, Woodward played a recurring role on NBC's ER in the fifteenth and final season as Kelly Taggart, the younger sister of nurse Samantha "Sam" Taggart. She also starred in another teen thriller The Shortcut.
Woodward appeared in her friend Katy Perry's music video "Hot n Cold" and had a cameo role in Perry's documentary/concert film Katy Perry: Part of Me. Perry, in turn, guest-starred in a season two episode of Raising Hope.
In 2010, Woodward starred in the independent drama Girlfriend. She also played the lead character in the 2015 ensemble comedy-drama The Breakup Girl.
From September 2010 to April 2014 Woodward starred in the FOX sitcom Raising Hope, which also starred Cloris Leachman and Martha Plimpton. She played Sabrina, a grocery store checkout clerk who is the love interest of Jimmy Chance, the series lead played by Lucas Neff.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Man of the House | Emma Sharp | |
| 2005 | Quiet, TheThe Quiet | Fiona | |
| 2007 | Sunny & Share Love You | Girl on the Street | |
| 2007 | Comebacks, TheThe Comebacks | Emily | |
| 2008 | Haunting of Molly Hartley, TheThe Haunting of Molly Hartley | Leah | |
| 2009 | Shortcut, TheThe Shortcut | Lisa | |
| 2010 | Girlfriend | Candy | |
| 2012 | Katy Perry: Part of Me | Herself | |
| 2012 | Adult World | Candace | |
| 2015 | The Breakup Girl | Claire | |
| 2015 | Search Party | Tracy | |
| 2016 | The Veil | Jill | |
| 2016 | The Runaround | Lois | Filming |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991–1994 | Clarissa Explains It All | Missy Alien 3 |
Episodes: "Revenge", "Alter Ego" Episode: "UFO" |
| 1995 | Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare | Leigh Dooley | TV movie |
| 1996 | Tornado! | Lucy | TV movie |
| 1997 | True Women | Young Cherokee Woods (age 13) | TV movie |
| 2000 | Drew Carey Show, TheThe Drew Carey Show | Girl in Cafeteria | Episode: "Be Drew to Your School" |
| 2001 | Crossing Jordan | Lucy (uncredited) | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2001 | Malcolm in the Middle | Tammy | Episode: "Houseboat" |
| 2001–2002 | Grounded for Life | Kristina | Episodes: "In My Room", "Jimmy's Got a Gun" "Is She Really Going Out with Walt?" |
| 2002 | Greetings from Tucson | Chrissy | Episode: "Popularity" |
| 2003 | Without a Trace | Vicki Johnson | Episode: "Sons and Daughters" |
| 2003 | Boston Public | Allison Marianne Karr |
Episode: "Chapter 69" Episode: "Chapter 74" |
| 2004 | Medical Investigation | Danielle Johnson | Episode: "The Unclean" |
| 2005 | Quintuplets | Bailey | Episode: "Chutes and Letters" |
| 2006 | Cold Case | Raquel Montero (1994) | Episode: "Detention" |
| 2007 | Psych | Alice Bundy | Episode: "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast" |
| 2007 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Cecilia Strayer | Episode: "Svengali" |
| 2007–2008 | Riches, TheThe Riches | Di Di Malloy | Main role, 20 episodes |
| 2009 | Limelight | Zoe Green | TV movie |
| 2009 | Criminal Minds | Linda Jones | Episode: "Zoe's Reprise" |
| 2009 | ER | Kelly Taggart | Episode: "A Long, Strange Trip" Episode: "T-Minus-6" |
| 2010–2014 | Raising Hope | Sabrina Collins | Main role, 88 episodes |
| 2012 | Garfunkel and Oates | Jane | TV series |
| 2016 | Westworld | Elsie King | Series regular |
References
- ↑ Goldberg, Lesley (6 August 2014). "HBO's 'Westworld' Adds Jeffrey Wright, Shannon Woodward, 4 More". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
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