# Anne Shirley--grrrrrrrrrr

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-shirley-grrrrrrrrrr/520476>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 8, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-shirley-grrrrrrrrrr/520476 "2009-12-08T18:47:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-shirley-grrrrrrrrrr/520476/21 "2009-12-10T21:02:14Z")

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> [@Sampiro](#):
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> She was so striking looking with that “dead English woman” skin and red hair that I’m surprised she never became a much bigger star. According to her wiki she lives in both Toronto and L.A. so apparently she and/or her life-partner (male) are doing pretty well financially, so maybe she didn’t want to be bigger and wanted to be a stay-at-home mom, because I think that with the right agent and some drive she’d have been at least as big as a Kate Winslet or Gwyneth Paltrow.

I agree completely (what you don’t mention is that besides her looks, she’s a marvelous actress). I think she prefers stage acting, though, which may be why she appears to be ‘off the grid’. I’ve seen her in L&O, and IIRC more recently she was in a CBC serial, but generally I think she just digs trodding the boards.

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**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-shirley-grrrrrrrrrr/520476/22 "2009-12-10T21:20:43Z")

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I saw her in A Doll’s House at the Guthrie Theatre maybe 15 years ago…Megan Follows that is…

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