Polly Shannon was grew up in Aylmer, Quebec, with her mother (a Canadianscript-writer for children's television) and her father (director-general of HealthCanada). She was given a deadline of the age of 25 to make it or break it as anactress, and she's more then met that quota. In 1999, alone, she's had hit's withThe Girl Next Door, Lie With Me, and the acclaimed mini-series Trudeau, coming along way from her first role as Nina in the Canadian teen series "Catwalk" (1992) inthe early nineties.