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American TV presenter Shawnee Rebecca Smith is endowed with versatile talents that she realizes as a composer, singer, actress and producer. In cinematography, she is known for the following films and series: The Drop, Armageddon, the Saw franchise, The Curse 3, Secret from Parents, and Anger Management. Shawnee Smith successfully combines acting with music lessons, she plays the guitar, drums, piano and has good vocal skills. And Shawnee is a caring mother of three children - a daughter and two sons. Her children are from different fathers, as Smith tied the knot twice. The first husband of the actress was photographer Jason Reposar, and the second was musician Kai Mattoon.
Early Biography
In early July 1969, a wonderful baby was born to the married couple of nurse Patricia Ann and ex-pilot, now financial planner, James Smith, who was destined to become a famous personality of modernshow business. As soon as Shawnee was a year old, her parents moved from South Carolina to California, and settled in the sprawling San Fernando Valley town of Van Nuys. Unfortunately, her parents soon separated, and her mother remarried. The girl studied at the elementary school Ranchito Avenue Elementary, continued her education at the high school, which she graduated in 1987.
Shawnee Smith began her creative career at the age of 8, with participation in the production of A Christmas Carol in Prose. At the age of 15, she shared the stage with Richard Dreyfuss. After the triumph of the performance "Gillian on her 37th birthday", the young talent was awarded the Drama-logue Awards. The debut television project of the actress was the series McDonald's.
Creative development
In a big movie for the first time, Shawnee Smith tried herself as an actress in the work of D. Huston's "Annie", which was an adaptation of the Broadway musical. Her talent was noticed and appreciated by filmmakers, and over the next years the girl was in great demand. Every year, tapes with her participation were released, including “Not My Child”, “Innocent Crime”, “Summer School”, “Drop”, “Who is Harry Crumb?”, “New Life Brand”, “Hours of Despair”.
Realizing that she had outgrown teen roles, Smith took a three-year sabbatical. After a significant break, it was difficult for her to return to the cinema, so for some time Shawnee embodied the images of episodic and secondary characters on TV. During this period, the track record was replenishedShawnee Smith Movies & TV Shows: Standoff, The Signature Recipe, Silver Spoons, Law & Order, Gamblers and Maria
Scream Queen
The actress gained worldwide popularity after playing the role of Amanda Young in several parts of the Saw horror franchise. Photos of Shawnee Smith began to appear regularly on the front pages of the media, and the public awarded the actress with the title of Scream Queen. By the way, playing a surviving victim, and after an associate of the Designer, the actress was in her fourth month of pregnancy. No one knew about this fact, except for director Darren Lynn Bowsman. Her condition was betrayed only by sometimes swollen legs. Shawnee Smith later admitted that she felt genuine fear while watching Saw or other horror films.
Recent major works
In 2009, Smith joined the cast of the mystical horror film The Grudge 3. She played the role of child psychologist Ann Sullivan. After embodied the images of various characters in the films "Killing Speed", "Jane Mansfield's Machine", "Believe".
Several times the actress shone as a guest star in the ABC series, for example, "Law &Order" and "Secret from the Parents." And then she entered the main cast of the American sitcom Anger Management. From 2012 to 2014, she played the role of Jennifer Goodson, the charming wife of the protagonist Dr. Charlie Goodson, played by the unrivaled Charlie Sheen.
With music for life
Shawnee, havingoutstanding ability to compose music and play music, has made a great contribution to the creation of sound accompaniment and individual soundtracks of the horror series "Saw". The actress also performs songs on her own in the film Carnival of Souls.
Smith was briefly the lead singer of the punk metal band Fydolla Ho and a member of the country band Smith & Pyle. After the breakup of the bands, Shawnee began to develop a solo career. But already in 2013, she announced that she had decided to give preference to a television career and raising children.
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