Some images from the Exhibition Opening on May 25. 
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- Public Appearances: Famous Scots Exhibition Opening
Thanks to Lorna!
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- Magazine & Newspaper Scans: Herald (UK) – May 26, 2009
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GENERATIONS of Shetland fishermen, one of the first women in Scotland to gain two degrees and a governess who concealed her pregnancy have all been revealed as forebears of rock star Shirley Manson.
The singer and actress, who now lives in California, is the latest famous Scot to come under scrutiny from researchers at the National Archives to mark Homecoming Scotland 2009.
The singer with band Garbage visited the exhibition of her family tree at Scotland’s People Centre in Edinburgh yesterday and said she was surprised and delighted to discover she was “100 per cent Scottish”. Read the rest of this entry »
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More information about the Exhibition can be found here at ScotlandsPeople. Thanks to Pete Wadley for the heads up.
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Bond speculation and more about the ‘Famous Scots’ Exhibition.
SCOTS rocker Shirley Manson has admitted she will never become a Bond girl – because she feels she is too old.
The talented singer-turned-actress has already gone down in 007 history when her band Garbage recorded the theme tune to the 1999 Bond blockbuster The World Is Not Enough.
But Manson shot down suggestions she would be appearing alongside the suave British secret agent in a future assignment, despite recently been seen in the Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles playing a liquid-metal robot.
She said: “I had my Bond experience with the band and it was pretty fantastic, but I feel I’m just a bit too old to be a Bond girl.
“There’s a few other acting roles being talked about, but, for the moment, I’m just playing it by ear.
“Music-wise, I’m beginning to get the itch again because for a while I just didn’t have the desire to sing, but now I’m beginning to get it back and hopefully I’ll get it together fairly soon.”
Manson revealed she has also just completed filming for an un-named television project.
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FROM Comely Bank to California, it has been a long road for Shirley Manson.
But the Garbage lead singer and star of TV Terminator spin-off The Sarah Connor Chronicles will have a real homecoming today when she opens an exhibition exploring her family history.
Shirley, 42, is returning to the Capital from her Los Angeles home as part of the Homecoming 2009 celebrations.
She is the latest star to take part in the Famous Scots exhibition at the ScotlandsPeople family history centre, after Billy Connolly and scientist Sir James Black. Read the rest of this entry »
Shirley was once again on Craig Ferguson Monday night!
A corresponding article from Deadline – don’t let the headline shock you. 
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Shirley out and about on Friday, all bundled up and looking good despite seemingly having a cold.
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- Candids: Out and About
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Shirley was spotted leaving Peet’s Coffee Shop in West Hollywood today.
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- Candids: Leaving Peet’s Coffee Shop
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- Photoshoots: Garbage (Year Unknown)
Thanks to Kristina and The Sarah Connor Society for the captures!
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- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: 2×18 “Today is the Day, Part 1″ Episode Stills
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: 2×21 – “Adam Raised a Cain” Captures
The Terminator franchise is one of the most iconic in the entire science fiction genre, so one can imagine how the idea of actually portraying one of the cybernetic killers could make any actor nervous. Following in the footsteps of the Governator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Robert Patrick could be overwhelming for anyone, but the stars of “Terminator: The Sara Connor Chronicles” have found a way to make the parts their own.
Actress Summer Glau plays Cameron, a Terminator sent back in time to protect John Connor. Glau was first noticed by the geek-world for her work on Joss Whedon’s cult hit show “Firefly” and its film spin-off, “Serenity.” She’s also appeared on TV’s “The 4400” and recently in a cameo as herself on CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory.”
Shirley Manson is best known as the lead singer of the hugely popular alt-rock bad Garbage. She made the transition from singer to actress this year when she joined the cast of “Sarah Connor Chronicles,” playing the role of Catherine Weaver, a powerful CEO who secretly happens to be a T-1001 liquid-metal Terminator.
CBR News had the opportunity to speak with the two actresses at last month’s WonderCon in San Francisco. They both spoke candidly about the finale of the season, the possibility of a third, and what it’s like to play a Terminator. Read the rest of this entry »
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- Magazine & Newspaper Scans: Daily Star – March 16, 2009
SCOTS rocker Shirley Manson has denied claims she is quitting the music business to concentrate on her acting career.
The Garbage star was reported this week as to being “disillusioned” with the music business.
But the Edinburgh-born singer has hit back on her Facebook blog by saying the rumours are not true.
In the online message to her thousands of loyal fans, she said: “Just a quick note to say it is absolute nonsense that I am ‘quitting the music industry’.
“I have no idea where this report came from but it most certainly didn’t come from me. I am not a quitter. It’s just not my thing.
“Perhaps it’s wishful thinking on behalf of a journalist but, oh woopsie, too bad. Sorry to break it to you, but the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
Manson, 42, is currently starring as Catherine Weaver in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Virgin 1.
The award-winning frontwoman has also revealed to fans she is about to go under the knife in a mystery operation.
She said: “I am having an operation and in the unlikely event that I die or become brain damaged can I just say that I have had the most wonderful life and can’t think of a lovelier way to have lived than to live creatively.”
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Shirley Manson, singer for the 1990s hit rock band Garbage, has moved on from music to pursue her new acting career. Manson told reporters at WonderCon that her current role as Catherine Weaver in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles gives her more of a creative thrill than making new music could.
“I’m 42,” she said. “I have been in bands since I was 15. There gets to a point where you are stepping out in front of 100,000 people and your blood pressure doesn’t change. I felt like I wanted to do something in my life that scared me.”
Manson isn’t going to step away from the music industry without taking a few shots at its demise. “I was sickened by my record company’s approach, which was, to me, essentially an uncreative process,” Manson said. “I felt like there was nothing I was ever going to be able to do that was going to please them. I didn’t want to play the corporate music gig where they want women to make nursery rhymes. I wasn’t prepared to do that. They keep churning out pop hits that no one gives a (expletive) about a year later. The business is not being run in a smart fashion.”
The Terminator gig is Manson’s only acting job at the moment, but she insists that if the show is not picked up for another season, she will not go crawling back to the music industry.
Source.
And another article with the same theme:
Shirley Manson turned Garbage into gold.
She accomplished this bit of pop culture alchemy during her days as the lead singer of the alternative-rock band Garbage. Read the rest of this entry »
Shirley Manson, sitting on a stool in a sound room at Capitol Studios, confessed something in front of the 200 or so people cross-legged on the floor and in rows of chairs behind them as she awaited for the four members of U2 to arrive. Four bar stools, each with a microphone placed on the seat, sat empty beside her.
“I’ve never done this before,” she said, her notes shaking in her hands. “I’m shitting myself.”
The occasion was an interview she was conducting with the band for something called the U2 Radio Network, and the crowd was comprised primarily of radio industry professionals who no doubt the band was seeking to curry favor with in order to get better exposure for its new album. But the band has bussed in some real life fans, too, who you could spot because, well, they didn’t look like radio professionals. This event has been billed as “an inside look at No Light on the Horizon,” and Manson, of the band Garbage, has been shouldered with the responsibility of talking with the band.
Read more here.
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- Interviews & TV Appearances: Shirley Manson interviews U2
