Shannon Elaine Cochran (born 1958 or 1959) is an American actress. While she has numerous credits to her name, she is particularly recognizable as having played the mysterious Anna Morgan in the 2002 horror film The Ring. Cochran is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Cochran. She graduated from Page High School in Greensboro, North Carolina. She attended Wake Forest University but left to go into acting. She graduated from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in 1982. Cochran has performed in multiple theatres in the US and Europe. She began acting professionally in theaters in Cincinnati and Memphis, and in 1984 she toured with a revue whose stops included the Bahamas, Boston, California, and Miami. Her Broadway credits include August: Osage County (2009), Cabaret (2016), and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2019). She played Pam Beesly's mother in The Office episode "Sexual Harassment" (later replaced by Linda Purl). Cochran married actor Michael Canavan. (Via Wikipedia)