Polly Shannon was 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 hit's with _Girl Next Door, The (1999/I) (TV)_ (with Henry Czerny) and The Sheldon Kennedy Story (with Jonathan Scarfe of Madison and ER fame), coming a long way from her first role as Nina in the Canadian teen series Catwalk in the early nineties.



She has a younger brother named Micah and a half sister Kaitlin.