The Life Insurance Foundation for Education has hired Molly Shannon to serve as the national spokeswoman for the group’s fourth annual Life Insurance Awareness Month campaign.
Shannon, who recently appeared as Aunt Victoire in the film “Marie Antoinette” but is best known for playing Mary Katherine Gallagher on “Saturday Night Live,” will work to draw attention to the campaign in September by telling television, radio and print reporters about her own story, according to LIFE, Washington.
When Shannon was 4, she was in a car accident that took the lives of her 33-year old mother, her cousin and her younger sister, Life says.
Shannon, her father and her older sister lived, but her father was badly injured and unable to work for several years.