Shannon Marie 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 best known for playing Sabrina on Raising Hope and Di Di Malloy on The Riches. Woodward currently plays Elsie Hughes, a programmer, in a regular role on the HBO series Westworld.
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 her best friend Katy Perry in LA.
Woodward's first on-screen acting job came in 1991 when she played the occasionally recurring role of Missy on 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 The University of Texas cheerleaders who witnessed a murder in the action comedy Man of the House.
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