Shannon Murray | |
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| Born | 1976 (age 48–49) Dublin, Ireland |
Shannon Murray (born 1976) is an Irish-born actress, writer, media lawyer and consultant. She won the first ever search for a disabled model and was the first disabled model to feature in a high-profile advertising campaign for the British store Debenhams. [1] [2] [3] [4]
As an actress, Murray has appeared in a number of dramas for the BBC and Channel 4, such as Holby City and Casualty , and in 2017 appeared in the BBC Doctor Who spinoff series Class . [5] In 2018, Murray appeared in three episodes of the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Sarah-Jane Spilsbury. In 2019, she appeared in an episode of Silent Witness , and in 2020, she appeared in Get Even as Mrs Baggott.
Murray was born in Dublin and moved to London at a young age. She is the daughter of Frank Murray, who managed The Pogues and Thin Lizzy. [6] She enrolled in drama classes at the Anna Scher Theatre from the age of 8. Murray was left paralysed from the waist down after a diving accident in Lanzarote when she was 14 years old and has since used a wheelchair. [7] As an adult, she took courses with RADA as well as receiving personal coaching. [8]