Trivia

Was supposed to have a solo musical career but canceled it when her record label dismissed her work as "too noir". She reunited her alternative rock band Garbage for a new album called "Not Your Kind of People". Garbage self-released the album on their new independent label, Stun Volume Records.

Has reported that she used to cut herself as a teenager, even keeping a Swiss Army Knife in her boots, and has since used her celebrity status to bring awareness to the dangers of self-mutilation.

In 2005, she revealed that she has the condition body dysmorphia, which may be the root of the depression which she has mentioned previously.

Singer for the band Garbage

Joined the cast of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008) as a regular cast member. (2008)

She quit smoking after her husband's nephew died of cancer at age seven

Her favorite singer is Frank Sinatra

In the music video of "The World is Not Enough". Shirley Manson played a robot replica of Shirley Manson who kills the real Shirley Manson and takes her place. In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008), Shirley Manson played Catherine Weaver, A T-1000 liquid metal Terminator.

Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker wore kilts to her wedding.

She had a cyst removed from her vocal chords during the Beautiful Garbage period.

Was a model for Calvin Klein.

Her band Garbage has performed with American ska rock band No Doubt and Shirley has performed with Gwen Stefani on her tour.

Is asthmatic.

As of 2009, Lulu, Sheena Easton, and Manson (singing with Garbage) are the only Scottish artists to have sung 007 title songs, respectively: The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), For Your Eyes Only (1981), and The World Is Not Enough (1999). Ironically, neither movie featured fellow-Scot Sean Connery as James Bond.

Her father was a biology teacher, her mother a singer.

She dropped out of high school at 16. Since then, she has been in bands such as 'Autumn 1904', Wild Indians, Goodbye Mr Mckenzie and Angelfish.

She has an orange Fender Stratocaster which she named "Rita".

Ranked #47 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).

Her favourite movie is Oldboy (2003).

Lead singer, lyricist, guitarist, and co-producer on Garbage's five albums - the 1995 debut release "Garbage", 1998's follow-up "Version 2.0", 2001's "beautiful garbage", 2005's "Bleed Like Me, and 2012's "Not Your Kind of People". These albums have sold over 17 million copies to date.

She is the author of the handwriting in Garbage's debut album.

She had piano lessons as a child.

Her band, Garbage, went on an extended hiatus in late 2005, although they have worked together, infrequently, since.

Promoting her new album "Bleed like me" (Available in music stores since April 11, 2005) all around Europe. (April 2005)

Has an older sister, Lindy, and a younger sister, Sarah.

Her divorce from sculptor husband Eddie Farrell became final in 2005. They had been separated since 2003.

She was in the theater group when she was in high school

She was the lead singer of Angelfish by the time she was discovered by Butch Vig and Steve Marker.

Recording solo works with producer David Arnold, while on a break from Garbage. (April 2006)

Of Clan Gunn.

Her former husband is a sculptor.