Real Name : Shirley Anne Manson
Nick Name : Queen Helen
Birth : 26 August 1966, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Height : 5' 7"
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- Absolute Garbage (2007) (V) [Herself/Various]
- Best Ever Bond (2002) (TV) [Herself]
- Blondie: One Way or Another (2006) (TV) [Herself]
- Brit Awards 2005 (2005) (TV) [Herself - Presenter 'Best British Live Act']
- Conceptualization (2009) (V) [Herself]
- Designing Destruction (2009) (V) [Herself]
- Garbage (1996) (V) [Herself/Various] <1>
- In the Woods (2009/II) {{SUSPENDED}} [Herself]
- MTV Europe Music Awards 2003 (2003) (TV) (as Garbage) [Herself] <13>
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2006) (TV) [Herself]
- Setting the Tempo (2009) (V) [Herself]
- The 5th Annual Women Rock (2004) (TV) [Herself]
- The Bond Cocktail (1999) (TV) [Herself]
- The Kerrang Awards (2002) (TV) [Herself]
- The Work of Director Stéphane Sednaoui (2005) (V) (as Garbage) [Herself (segment "Queer")]
- War Stories (2009) (V) [Herself]
- "20h10 pétantes" (2003) {(2005-04-04)} (as Garbage) [Herself]
- "Behind the Music" (1997) {Garbage} [Herself]
- "Decades Rock Live" (2006) {The Pretenders & Friends} [Herself]
- "Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop" (2005) [Herself]
- "Last Call with Carson Daly" (2002) {(2008-10-02)} [Herself]
- "Later with Jools Holland" (1992) {(#18.6)} [Herself - Musical Guest]
- "Lola da musica" (1995) {Foo Fighters & Garbage (#3.1)} [Herself]
- "Making the Video" (1999) {Garbage: The World Is Not Enough (#1.15)} [Herself]
- "Politically Incorrect" (1994) {(1998-09-29)} [Herself]
- "Popworld" (2001) {(2005-06-12)} [Herself]
- "Queens of British Pop" (2009) {(#1.1)} [Herself]
- "Rage" (1987) {Garbage Guest Program Rage} [Herself]
- "RI:SE" (2002) {(2002-09-24)} [Herself]
- "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" (1994) {Curses (#5.9)} [Herself]
- "Talkshow with Spike Feresten" (2006) {Jennifer Morrison/Shirley Manson/Tom Papa (#3.16)} [Herself]
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {Adam Raised a Cain (#2.21)} [Catherine Weaver/T-1001] <6>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {Allison from Palmdale (#2.4)} [Catherine Weaver] <4>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {Automatic for the People (#2.2)} [Catherine Weaver] <6>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {Born to Run (#2.22)} [Catherine Weaver/T-1001] <6>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {Brothers of Nablus (#2.7)} [Catherine Weaver] <6>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {Complications (#2.9)} [Catherine Weaver] <6>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {Desert Cantos (#2.15)} [Catherine Weaver] <5>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {Earthlings Welcome Here (#2.13)} [Catherine Weaver] <5>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {Goodbye to All That (#2.5)} [Catherine Weaver] <5>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {Samson & Delilah (#2.1)} [Catherine Weaver] <6>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point (#2.10)} [Catherine Weaver] <6>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {The Good Wound (#2.14)} [Catherine Weaver] <7>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {The Mousetrap (#2.3)} [Catherine Weaver] <6>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {The Tower Is Tall But the Fall Is Short (#2.6)} [Catherine Weaver] <5>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {To the Lighthouse (#2.20)} [Catherine Weaver/T-1001] <6>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {Today Is the Day: Part 1 (#2.18)} [Catherine Weaver] <6>
- "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) {Today Is the Day: Part 2 (#2.19)} [Catherine Weaver/T-1001] <6>
- "TFI Friday" (1996) {(1998-06-05)} [Herself]
- "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (2005) {(#5.106)} [Herself]
- "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (2005) {(#5.142)} [Herself]
- "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (2005) {(#5.18)} [Herself]
- "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (2005) {(#6.163)} [Herself] <2>
- "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (2005) {(#6.59)} [Herself] <2>
- "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (2005) {(#6.62)} [Herself - Guest]
- "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992) {(2005-07-28)} (as Garbage) [Herself]
- "Top of the Pops" (1964) {(1995-11-30)} (as Garbage) [Herself]
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- 'Eddie Farrell' (qv) (7 September 1996 - 2003) (divorced)
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- "NME" (UK), 27 September 1997, pg. 6, "More Garbage coming soon"
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- "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" (USA), 15 August 2005, Vol. 57, Iss. 227, pg. C2, by: Rodney Ho, "Peach Buzz: If she thinks that's fighting..."
- "Mad" (Belgium), 6 April 2005, pg. 29, by: Thierry Coljon, "Shirley et les garçons tiennent à Garbage"
- "US Weekly" (USA), 5 June 2000, Iss. 277, pg. 35, by: Carrie Bell, "Rocker Shirley Manson's Bout With Self-Mutilation"
- "Pop & Rock" (Greece), August 1998, Iss. 229, pg. 56-61, by: Yannis Melas, "Ginger spice"
- "Mayfair" (UK), 1995, Vol. 30, Iss. 10, pg. 60, by: staff, "Vigging In The Rigging"
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- "Celebrity Sleuth" (USA), 1998, Vol. 11, Iss. 5, pg. 24-25, by: staff, "Girl Power: 'Garbage' Out!"
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- "Nylon" (USA), December/January 2002
- "Vanity Fair" (USA), November 2002, Iss. 507
- "Pop & Rock" (Greece), August 1998, Iss. 229
- "Celebrity Sleuth" (USA), 1998, Vol. 11, Iss. 5
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- Album: Beautiful Garbage
- Album: Garbage
- Album: Garbage Version 2.0
- Video: Androgyny
- Video: Breaking up the girl
- Video: Cherry lips (Go baby go!)
- Video: I think I'm paranoid
- Video: I'm only happy when it rains
- Video: Milk
- Video: Push it
- Video: Queer
- Video: Shut your mouth
- Video: Special
- Video: Stupid girl
- Video: The world is not enough
- Video: Vow
- Video: When I grow up
- Video: You look so fine
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- (April 2005) Promoting her new album "Bleed like me" (Available in music stores since April 11, 2005) all around Europe.
- (April 2006) Recording solo works with producer David Arnold while on break from Garbage.
- (2008) Joined the cast of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" as a regular cast member.
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- Her deep singing voice
- Dark red hair
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- "I love looking at naked bodies, male or female, whenever possible. I think nudity is always tasteful."
- 'The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression" (Talking about her childhood years and the terrible self-image she had as a child)
- "Young girls now correlate the word 'sexy' with nakedness. It's practically, 'Show us your labia'. If you play that game of allowing yourself to be judged by your physicality, it will not sustain you through a long career. There's always going to be someone younger, more beautiful, more desirable. It's a temple of dust." (About the music industry)
- "Speech is my absolute lifeline and I felt like I'd lost my personality, been stripped completely of me; I felt invisible." (About having a cyst removed from her vocal chords)
- "Here am I. I'm 38. My career's probably never been better. And I've made a decision which may or may not impact on it - I refuse to hide my experience and my age, as if it's something I should be ashamed of. I'm alive. I know lots of people who've never been lucky enough to get to this stage in their life. And I'm not gonna hide it for anybody." (about being almost 40)
- "I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced."
- "Until, I think, everyone in that school thought I was less than human. I felt ugly, weak, overwhelmed - I couldn't imagine being capable of doing anything. I certainly never thought I could be in a band. This was a dream it didn't even occur to me to dream about." (1998, Select Magazine)
- "I look at today's charts, at the women who are selling the most records, getting the most column inches, and I'm terrified by how they are all controlled by a male corporate idea of what women and rebels should be. When Christina Aguilera is taken seriously as a rebellious figure, we have a huge problem."
- A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.
- A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
- I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.
- I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.
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- Singer for the band 'Garbage' (qv)
- Is asthmatic.
- Her father was a biology teacher, her mother a singer.
- Has two sisters
- She dropped out of high school at 16. Since then, she has been in bands such as Autumn 1904, Wild Indians, Goodbye Mr Mckenzie and Angelfish.
- She was the lead singer of Angelfish by the time she was discovered by 'Butch Vig (I)' (qv) and 'Steve Marker' (qv).
- She is the author of the handwriting in Garbage's debut album.
- Her former husband is a sculptor.
- Lead singer, lyricist, guitarist, and co-producer on Garbage's three albums - the 1995 debut release 'Garbage', 1998s follow up 'Version 2.0' and 2001s 'beautifulgarbage'. These albums have sold over 10 million copies to date.
- She quit smoking after her husband's nephew died of cancer at age seven
- Her favorite singer is 'Frank Sinatra' (qv)
- She has an orange Fender Strocaster wich she named "Rita"
- She had piano lessons as a child.
- Butch, Duke and Steve wore kilts to her wedding.
- She was in the theater group when she was in high school
- Was a model for Calvin Klein
- Ranked #47 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).
- She had a cyst removed from her vocal chords during the Beautiful Garbage period.
- Her divorce from sculptor husband Eddie Farrell became final in 2005. They had been separated since 2003.
- In 2005, she revealed that she has the condition body dysmorphia, which may be the root of the depression which she has mentioned previously.
- Her band Garbage, went on an extended hiatus in late 2005, although have worked together infrequently since.
- Has reported that she used to cut herself as a teenager, even keeping a Swiss Army Knife in her boots, and has since used her celebrity status to bring awareness to the dangers of self-mutilation.
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