Shannon Woodward

Shannon Woodward
Born	Shannon Marie Woodward (1984-12-17) 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.

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

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Man of the House	Emma Sharp
2005	The Quiet	Fiona
2007	Sunny & Share Love You	Girl on the Street
2007	The Comebacks	Emily
2008	The Haunting of Molly Hartley	Leah
2009	The 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

Television

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	The 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	The 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

External links

• Shannon Woodward at the Internet Movie Database
• Shannon Woodward on Twitter