Shannon Elizabeth
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I was born on
September 7th in Houston, Texas. My parents’ only other baby was
a pocket poodle named Angel.
At age two I started taking ballet, tap and jazz. I loved to sing
and dance and show off in any way possible (and obviously still
do!). Somehow, I found time to slip in a year of baton too! Around
my third grade year we all moved to Waco, Texas, where a ton of my
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would be safer to raise me in a small town versus the big city
(little did they know that Waco was wacko!). Looking back, Waco
was really boring, but I’m sure I did have more freedom living
there. Everyone seemed to make the best of what the city had to
offer. I auditioned for and was accepted into the Waco City Choir.
Then I discovered a new love and talent – TENNIS! I became
number one on my high school tennis team and competed in state
tournaments regularly. At one point I wanted to go pro and make
tennis my life. Unfortunately, our high school tennis coach was
not a good role model and one by one everyone quit the team. It
was hard to keep up with my game after that and my attention
turned to my other various extra curricular activities:
Cheerleading, Dance Team, Student Council Treasurer, Class
Treasurer and National Honor Society Historian. |
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I remember loving to
do two things in particular when I was growing up: making my mom
laugh so hard that she couldn’t breathe and arguing until I
proved I was right (remember, I was an only child). So, with that
in mind, my options seemed to be entertainer or lawyer. Well,
during my senior year I had the opportunity to be in a video for a
local band. The producer of the project thought that I should be
in New York modeling and proceeded to pitch the idea to my
parents. That Christmas my |
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and I ended up going to New York to have some pictures taken and
meet with some agencies. I was soooo nervous! By the end of our
trip I had an agent who was waiting for me to graduate and move to
the Big Apple.
Being alone in New York City for
the first time was fascinating and a bit terrifying. I was
definitely homesick, but it got better quickly seeing as I was
living in NYU dorms for the summer. I made friends with most of
the building and some of the other young models with my agency.
That was the beginning of me working with various magazines and
doing a bit of traveling. Amongst my travels I hit such places as
Japan, Paris, Milan, Australia, Taiwan and Hong Kong. How lucky
was I to get paid to travel and see the world at the same time?!
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back to the good ol’ USA. There really is no place like home!
After spending an awesome season in South Beach, Miami I made my
way out to LA. I loved South Beach, but it was time to move on. I
actually was just planning on visiting a friend for a couple of
weeks, thinking that I wouldn’t be able to compete in LA quite
yet. I had always planned to end up in LA and start my acting
career, but I thought it would eat me alive at that point. During
my visit, I decided to go ahead and get a |
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modeling
agent and have some pictures done, as long as I was there. I
started out with the Ford Modeling Agency and have since moved to
Elite Model Management. Within a couple of weeks of arriving in LA
I ended up booking a Taco Bell commercial. Maybe it wasn’t as
scary as I pictured it after all! In no time I had relocated to LA
and joined an acting class.
I guess that was the beginning of the rest of my life! Before I
knew it I had met my soul mate and started booking acting jobs. I
have been fortunate enough to have great people helping me with my
career all along the way. If you want to see what work I have done
since getting to Los Angeles, just go look at my resume …all the
cool stuff I have done in TV and film is there for you to see! I
am so excited about what is around the corner. |
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