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Who is Shannon Whirry?

Shannon Whirry was born on the 7th November 1964 in Green Lake, Wisconsin, USA. She is an actress. She trained at the American Academy for Dramatic Arts in the 1980s, appearing onstage in Butterflies Are Free. However, she began to work primarily in erotic B-movies in the early 1990s along with other "queens" of that era Tanya Roberts, Delia Sheppard, Maria Ford and Shannon Tweed. Director Gregory Hippolyte's productions of Animal Instincts I and II, Body of Influence, and Mirror Images II featured Shannon in various stages of undress in repeated scenes. Other films were Private Obsession and Playback, a Playboy production. As her roles in softcore movies declined in the late 1990s, she was lucky enough to be able to restart her career as a legitimate thespian on network television and on film, including action, sci-fi and horror genres. She had a recurring role as "Velda" on the television series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and made guest appearances on such shows as ER, Felicity, Seinfeld, Murphy Brown and Nash Bridges. She also played "Vox Populi" in the short-lived series Black Scorpion and had a small role in the Jim Carrey film, Me, Myself and Irene.