Zyllah Inez Shannon

Zyllah Inez Shannon was an American actress who performed on stage^[1] and screen. In one of her theatrical roles she portrayed an intellectually advanced child.^[2]

Biography

Zyllah Inez Shannon was born in Missouri, to a family with six generations of history in theater. Her mother, Inez Shannon, was an actress and musician prominent in the 1910s.^[3]

Zyllah began appearing onstage at age two. Her best-known role was that of the young orphan Mary Margaret in Channing Pollock's play The Fool.^[4][5]

Theater

• The White Cat (1905)
• Confessions of a Wife (1907)^[6]
• The Fool Has Said in His Heart - There is No God (1908)^[7]
• The Family (1910)^[8]
• Youth (1920)^[9]
• The Fool (1923)
• The Front Page (1929)^[10]

Filmography

• The Beloved Adventuress (1917), as Mrs. Nicholson
• The Heart of a Girl (1918), as Mrs. Murphy
• The Road to France (1918), as Mrs. O'Leary
• The World to Live In (1919),^[11] as Ida
• The Plunger (1920), as Mrs. Mullin
• Cousin Kate (1921), as Mrs. Spencer
• Two Shall Be Born (1924)^[12]