Polly Shannon grew up in Aylmer, Quebec, with her mother (a Canadian script-writer for children's television) and her father (director-general of Health Canada). She was given a deadline of the age of 25 to make it or break it as an actress, and she's more then met that quota. In 1999, alone, she's had hits with _Girl Next Door, The (1999/I) (TV)_ (with Henry Czerny) and The Sheldon Kennedy Story (1999) (TV) (with Jonathan Scarfe of "Madison" (1993) and "ER" (1994) fame), coming a long way from her first role as Nina in the Canadian teen series "Catwalk" (1992) in the early nineties.
