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During the band's hiatus, Manson was cast in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles in May 2008, after being asked to appear by series creator Josh Friedman and enduring a multiple audition process, beating out other actresses including Julie Ann Emery. She debuted in the season two premiere episode "Samson and Delilah" as Catherine Weaver, a CEO of a technology company, ZeiraCorp. At the conclusion of the episode, Weaver is revealed to be a liquid-metal T-1001 Terminator. Manson also performed and co-arranged a rock and blues version of the gospel song "Samson and Delilah" for the episode's score. Manson cites actress Glenn Close and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as her acting influences for the ambiguous character. Manson also played the human Weaver in archive footage viewed by the T-1001 in the episode "The Tower is Tall, But the Fall is Short".
Manson recorded a duet with Eric Avery for his album Help Wanted, and with Debbie Harry, which was not finished. Manson made low key appearances in She Wants Revenge's "These Things" music video, and self-abuse documentary CUT: Teens and Self Injury. Vig produced albums for Jimmy Eat World, Against Me! and The Subways, and scored music for two films, including The Other Side. Erikson is working with the BBC an American folk music anthology, whilst Marker has been involved with a film score.
Vig worked with Jimmy Eat World on their sixth album, Chase This Light, released in October 2007. He is also working on soundtracks for two new movies, which include the unreleased The Other Side. Vig produced his first English band The Subways' on their second album, worked with Tom Gabel of Against Me! on his solo EP, 'Heart Burns', with Green Day on 21st Century Breakdown - which later won a Grammy Award in the category of Best Rock Album - and Foo Fighters, in both two songs for greatest hits release and their studio album Wasting Light. Recently, Vig has been partnered in duties by his engineer and mixer Billy Bush who also worked on Garbage's albums and live tours.
In 2008, Manson became involved with the Pablove Foundation, a charity founded by Dangerbird Records head Jeff Castelaz, whose son Pablo succumbed to cancer the following year. Funds raised for the Pablove Foundation directly supports the pediatric cancer community in and around Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Manson reformed Garbage to contribute an exclusive track, "Witness to Your Love", to a charity album for the Foundation; signed off a Pablove poster for auction on eBay; Manson also hosted a fundraiser headlined by the Silversun Pickups, and performed acoustically on-stage at a second fundraiser with Butch Vig and Tom Gabel (for a rendition of "Witness"...) and with Greg Kurstin (for a cover of Pablo's favourite song, David Bowie's "Life on Mars?").
In 2009, Manson made her first venture into the videogame industry by becoming digitally mapped to create an avatar of herself for the Guitar Hero franchise. In the fifth game in the series, Manson is an unlockable character, while the game also features a licensed Garbage track.
In 2010, Shirley Manson donated two hand decorated t-shirts to Binki Shapiro’s (of the band “Little Joy”) on-line charity auction “Crafts for a Cause” to help raise money for the earthquake victims of Haiti. The two T-shirts raised a total of $1522.00, which was donated to the Artists for Peace and Justice organization.
On September 17, 2011, Garbage announced via their Facebook page that the band would release a cover version of an as-yet-unannounced song in October. The band explained, "This track has nothing to do with our new record and will not be included. It is not a single. It is simply a song that happens to be a cover version that you will hear in a matter of weeks, if you care to." On October 10, it was revealed that the song in question would be a cover of U2's "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" for the Achtung Baby tribute album AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered. The compilation CD was released with the December 2011 issue of Q.
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