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Maggie Grace as Shannon Rutherford
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| Maggie
Grace: |
| Maggie
Grace launched her acting career in 2002, starring in Murder in
Greenwich and Shop Club. In 2003, Grace played the Goth-influenced,
estranged daughter of Tom Selleck and Wendy Crewson in the drama 12
Mile Road. Grace’s big break though came when she landed the role of
the self-centered Shannon Rutherford in the critically-acclaimed TV
series Lost. Grace’s latest project, released in fall was the 2005
horror film flop, The Fog, in which she co-starred with Tom Welling of
Smallville. |
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Rutherford: |
Prior to
Oceanic Flight 815
Shannon's father, Adam Rutherford, died in a car accident caused by
Jack's future wife. Her step-mother, Sabrina, tells Shannon that her
father didn't have a will, so she will receive none of his money.
Shannon asks for money to help her to move to New York where she
received an internship job, but Sabrina refuses. When Boone attempts
to give her money, Shannon turns him down.
Shannon has lived in various places around the world, including
France, Australia, and the United States. Because of her step-mother's
exclusion of her from the family money, Shannon cons Boone into giving
her large sums of money, frequently through his "buying out"
of her abusive boyfriends. It was one such con which brought both of
them to Australia, and the reason they were on Flight 815. However,
Shannon's Australian boyfriend steals the money from her, leaving her
no choice but to go back to Boone. The night before Flight 815, a
drunken Shannon she seduces and sleeps with Boone.
On the island
Since coming to the island, Shannon does her best to keep everyone at
arm's length, frequently behaving selfishly. However, her knowledge of
French allows her to translate Rousseau's distress signal for the
benefit of other survivors. In addition, Sayid breaks through to her
while attempting to decode French words on Rousseau's maps, and they
begin developing a romantic relationship. However, Shannon blames John
Locke for Boone's death, and when Sayid refuses to kill Locke for her
and interferes with her own attempt to kill Locke, their relationship
takes a turn for the worse. Young Walt gives her his dog when he
leaves on the raft, so that she can talk to (and bond with) Vincent
and work out her grief. Shannon and Sayid later rekindle their
relationship.
After the "Others" attack the rafters and kidnap Walt,
Shannon begins seeing visions of the young boy dripping wet and
speaking backwards. The other survivors do not believe her when she
tells them that she saw Walt.
When she tells Sayid in Abandoned, he believes she has just had a
nightmare, until he follows her into the woods and sees Walt too. As
Shannon runs through the jungle, Ana-Lucia Cortez mistakes her for one
of the Others and shoots her in the abdomen. She dies in Sayid's arms,
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Information
and image taken from:
ABC's Lost Site and Wikipedia.org |
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