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Shannon K. Dunn

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Shannon K. Dunn
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Shannon is an award-winning actor, who is best known for her comedic roles, and she loves to perform character parts!

When she was performing stand-up at the Comedy Store, she was recruited to be the lone female of an all-male improv group, and they performed in several LA-area venues for a few years but disbanded when Shannon was offered a series regular role on a comedy pilot.

She just completed filming a movie where she plays a snarky cashier in a grocery store titled, "Yellow Bird" and secured a role as a series regular in a drama TV pilot as well! One of her favorite roles was playing a smoking/drinking/cursing white trash chick for the short, "The Unmentionables" -- filmed in B&W on actual 16MM film!

After taking a 10-year hiatus to concentrate on writing, (she is an actor first) -- she sold 1 feature and 5 short films and has optioned 4 of her Christmas themed feature films (co-written with Tony Jerris). Most of the scripts she writes are simply to "Tina Fey" herself by writing supporting character roles specifically for her to play (usually not the lead). She has also won awards for her scripts/writing!

Although comedy is her first love, two of the scripts she has sold have been dramas! "Writing means I am constantly editing/revising. It's never perfect and I don't think I want anything to be absolutely perfect to be honest. Giving actors the freedom to improvise with my dialogue is awesome as long as they don't screw up the beats (for comedy) but get the words to come across naturally."

Shannon currently splits her time between her homes in California and Colorado.

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Known for

Sheila Vand in Land of Dreams (2019)
Land of Dreams
8.3
Video
  • Blonde Woman
  • 2019
Christina Applegate, David Faustino, Katey Sagal, and Ed O'Neill in Married... with Children (1987)
Married... with Children
8.1
TV Series
  • Monique
The Practice (1997)
The Practice
7.7
TV Series
  • Federal Court Foreperson
Yellow Bird
Yellow Bird
  • Paula

    Credits

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    Actress

    • Metronome
      • Post-production
    • Yellow Bird
      • Post-production
    • Vincent Olan and Tom Hackett in The Unmentionables (2020)
      The Unmentionables
    • Compromised (2020)
      Compromised
    • Sheila Vand in Land of Dreams (2019)
      Land of Dreams
    • The 24 Hour Intimate Position (2019)
      The 24 Hour Intimate Position
    • Decay (2015)
      Decay
      • (as Shannon Dunn)
    • Kirk Douglas and Michael A. Goorjian in Illusion (2004)
      Illusion
      • (as Shannon Dunn)
    • Flamingo Dreams
      • (as Shannon Dunn)
    • The Practice (1997)
      The Practice
    • Eating Las Vegas
      • (as Sharon K. Dunn)
    • Melissa Joan Hart in Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996)
      Sabrina the Teenage Witch
    • Where Truth Lies (1996)
      Where Truth Lies
    • Queen Latifah, Erika Alexander, Kim Fields, Terrence 'T.C.' Carson, Kim Coles, and John Henton in Living Single (1993)
      Living Single
    • Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards in Seinfeld (1989)
      Seinfeld
      • (uncredited)
    • Christina Applegate, David Faustino, Katey Sagal, and Ed O'Neill in Married... with Children (1987)
      Married... with Children
    • Back to School (1986)
      Back to School
      • (uncredited)

    Writer

    • I Can't Be Dead (2017)
      I Can't Be Dead
    • Losing Sight (2015)
      Losing Sight
    • Pasta
      Pasta

    Producer

    • Yellow Bird
      • Post-production
    • Don't Blink (2017)
      Don't Blink
    • Losing Sight (2015)
      Losing Sight
    • In-development projects at IMDbPro

    Videos4

    SPEED REEL - WARNING - BAD LANGUAGE
    Demo Reel 0:59
    SPEED REEL - WARNING - BAD LANGUAGE
    Entertainment Tonight Interview from 2003
    Demo Reel 1:02
    Entertainment Tonight Interview from 2003
    Decay
    Trailer 1:57
    Decay
    The 24 Hour Intimate Position
    Trailer 0:43
    The 24 Hour Intimate Position

    Personal details

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      • October 8
      • Alameda County, California, USA
    • Other works
      (7/02) Stage: Appeared (as "May") in "Tell Veronica!" by Tony Jerris. Hudson Mainstage Theater, Hollywood, CA.
    • Publicity listings
      • 1 Interview
      • 1 Magazine Cover Photo

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