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Shannyn Sossamon
Birth at
3 October 1978
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American actress Shannyn Sossamon was born on October 3, 1978 in Honolulu. She is best known for her films The Story of a Knight and 40 Days and 40 Nights. She grew up in Reno, Nevada, where her family moved. Thanks to his ancestors, Sossamon has Irish, Filipino, French, Hawaiian, Dutch, English, German roots. After graduating from high school, Shannin chose Los Angeles, a city that rightly seemed ideal for her career as a dancer. Starting with filming in television commercials, Sossamon earned
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American actress Shannyn Sossamon was born on October 3, 1978 in Honolulu. She is best known for her films The Story of a Knight and 40 Days and 40 Nights. She grew up in Reno, Nevada, where her family moved. Thanks to his ancestors, Sossamon has Irish, Filipino, French, Hawaiian, Dutch, English, German roots.
After graduating from high school, Shannin chose Los Angeles, a city that rightly seemed ideal for her career as a dancer. Starting with filming in television commercials, Sossamon earned bread as a DJ of local clubs. At one of the parties in 1999, when Gwyneth Paltrow's birthday was celebrated, Shannin was noticed by casting director Francina Meisler. So it happened that the first role in the movie (adventure film "The Story of a Knight") was the leading. However, she had to fight for it: Shannin passed five auditions.
In the romantic comedy 40 Days and 40 Nights Shannin played the lover of the hero Josh Hartnett, and then there was a candid film “Rules of Sex” (Roger Avery shot it based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis). After the film with Heath Ledger “Sin Eater”, Sossamon took a break in work: she was expecting a child.
In 2002, the actress received the Young Hollywood Awards. Shannine Sossamon's son, Audio Siens, was born in 2003. Two years after this event, the actress returned to work, but her roles became less noticeable, and films - less vivid - had to start all over again.
Out of a row out for Shannin was the role of the vampire Coraline Duvall in the
(For two consecutive years, he appeared on CBS.) Also in her "second call" actress played a major role in the film "One missed call". One of Sossamon's special works is a horror film.
“Catacombs”, where she played with the singer Pink.