Shannon Franklin

Shannon Elizabeth Franklin (born May 11, 1975) is an American stage actress and puppeteer. An native, she has been active since 1995.

Biography
Shannon was born in. Her father was employed by the and was later a chairman of  Local 1066 for 5 years. She is of Scottish and Danish descent. She grew up in a "multicultural neighborhood" and had friends of several races.

Career
At the age of 16, Shannon made her first appearance in a local traffic safety PSA funded by.

Her work with Mrs. Eliza Marrero and future Muppeteer Chance Galdames on the version of the bilingual kids' show La Pequeña Sala Púrpura on  channel 50 earned her two Chicago/Midwest Emmy Awards from 1994-1997.

In 2001, Shannon graduated from with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Chance referred her to VEE Corporation, where she joined Sesame Street Live for a west coast tour of Elmo's Coloring Book. She later performed Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat in the live TV special Kids for Character: We Are Family and for her appearance performing "Do the Siamese" on Top of the Pops El Kadsre. She then signed up for Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat Live!: A Festival Like No Other in 2003 as a double for Sagwa with Barbara de Rijke, but left in March 2004 due to a family emergency.

Shannon returned to VEE in 2005 performing in Between the Lions Live: Get Roaring for Reading! as Cleo Lion. She would later work on Between the Lions: Let's Explore alongside Chance Galdames, filming in and later.

As a long-time resident of the, she has volunteered her puppet Lil' Shannon at homeless shelters in and around and.