Shannon Day

{{short description|American actress}}

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| name = Shannon Day

| image =Shannon Day The Blue Book of the Screen.jpg

| caption = The Blue Book of the Screen, 1923

| birth_name = Sylvia Day

| birth_date = {{birth date|1896|8|5}}

| birth_place = Austro-Hungarian Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1977|2|24|1896|8|5}}

| death_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

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| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1913–1933

| education = Art Students League of New York

}}

Shannon Day (born Sylvia Day;Silent Film Necrology 2nd Edit. c.2001 by Eugene Michael Vazzana August 5, 1896 – February 24, 1977) was an American silent film actress who appeared in supporting parts in numerous productions.

Day was born on August 5, 1896, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her education was in New York City's public schools and in the Art Students League there.{{cite book |last1=Katchmer |first1=George A. |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses |date=May 20, 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0905-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Shannon+Day%22+actress&pg=PA88 |access-date=June 11, 2022 |pages=88–89|language=en}}

Day began performing on stage when she was a child. Billed as Sylvia Day, she appeared on Broadway in Ziegfeld Nine O'Clock Review (1919).{{cite web |title=Sylvia Day |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/sylvia-day-470469 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=June 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220611015913/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/sylvia-day-470469 |archive-date=June 11, 2022 |url-status=live}} Her film debut came in 1921 in Cecil B. DeMille's Forbidden Fruit.

When Day left acting in films, she began teaching drama in Manhattan. She died on February 24, 1977, in New York, aged 80.