
In 2007 she appeared on a BBC TV mini-series, " Nuclear Secrets", playing Kitty Oppenheimer, wife of nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer. She had a recurring role as Mike Hammer's secretaryVelda in the television series " Mike Hammer, Private Eye" and made guest appearances on such shows as" ER", " Felicity", " Seinfeld", " V.I.P.", " Murphy Brown", " Malcolm in the Middle" and " Nash Bridges". In the late 1990s, she moved from softcore movies into a series of roles on mainstream network television and films, including action, sci-fi and horror genres. Other films were"Private Obsession" and "Playback", a " Playboy" production.

Director Gregory Hippolyte's productions of "Animal Instincts I" and "II", "Body of Influence", and "Mirror Images II" featured Whirry in various stages of undress in repeated scenes.

However, she began to work primarily in erotic B movies in the early 1990s along with other scream queens of that era Tanya Roberts, Delia Sheppard, Maria Ford, and Shannon Tweed. Shannon Whirry trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in the 1980s, appearing onstage in " Butterflies Are Free" and " Mrs. Shannon Whirry is an American actress who was born on Novemat Green Lake (Wisconsin).
