Shay Mitchell is a world-famous fashion model and film actress from Canada. To her thirty years, the girl has already in the professional piggy bank almost four dozen works in various film projects. Today she has a large fan base, consisting of people devoted to her work.
Shay Mitchell: biography
The future actress was born on 04/10/1987 in the city of Mississauga, which is located in Ontario, but she spent most of her life in the largest city in the country of Toronto. Although Shey was born in Canada, her family included representatives from the Philippines, Ireland, and Scotland.
Interest in the artistic professions and creativity she began to manifest itself in early childhood. From the age of five she began to seriously engage in dancing.
Fashion Model Career
At the age of ten, with his family, Shay Mitchell moved to live in Vancouver, located in western Canada. About a year after the move, she takes part in a model casting, where she becomes one of the favorites. After that, her career in the modeling business began to develop rapidly. She starred for various publications, and often photo shoots took place abroad, in cities such as Bangkok, Barcelona and Hong Kong.
Pictures of Shay Mitchell appeared in the famous Maxim magazine (online version), where her photos were posted in the column "Girl of the day." Also in 2011, she became the official face of a new collection from a well-known brand called Pantene.
Actor career
In parallel, although much later, with the development of model activities, the girl began to engage in cinema. Before her first role, she graduated from acting courses in Toronto, which indicates a rather serious approach to the chosen profession, because many manage to build a career in cinema without professional training.
The debut role of actress Shay Mitchell was an episodic cameo in the television series "Degrassi: The Next Generation", where in 2009 she played a model. Then she appeared in the role of Irina Webber in the series "True Aron Stone", which was created by Disney.
There were also minor roles in the TV series Recruits Cops and the video for the song Hold my hand, performed by renowned American reggaeton singer Sean Paul. The track was a real hit, and the clip collected nearly 40 million views on the YouTube video hosting service.
However, the actress gained real fame only after receiving the role of Emily in the popular youth television series "Pretty Little Liars." There she played one of the key heroines of the project.
However, this is not all of her merits and appearances on television. To date, her track record has nearly 40 works in films and TV shows. Although in most of them she plays small episodic or secondary roles, there were quite significant works in her career.
Shay Mitchell: filmography
In the list of paintings where the actress starred, in addition to those that were mentioned above, there are also works such as the film "Unbearable Ladies", which was released in 2016. Then she starred in the film "Dreamland".
After that, Shay Mitchell, while continuing to shoot on TV shows, also appears in several videos and television shows. Now she takes part in the filming of the film "Corpse" directed by Diderik Van Ruzhen. This horror film is tentatively released in 2018, but the creators have not yet announced the exact date.
Shay achieved the greatest success in the film industry by appearing in television series. There are not so many full-length films with her participation yet, but she still has everything ahead, because her career in cinema began relatively recently. Today she is a very promising young actress.
Her creative activity is of great importance to modern mass culture now, and her potential has not yet been exhausted. Business offers come to her one by one. Moreover, they offer not only shooting in films and TV shows, but also photo shoots in prestigious and popular glossy magazines and online publications, and she often appears in various television programs.
Personal life. Conclusion
Shay Mitchell is a vivid example of how a simple girl from an ordinary family can build a truly dizzying career in the modeling and cinema business. Moreover, this is not an accident or a happy combination of circumstances, but her personal work and perseverance.
Of course, a considerable role was played by her natural beauty and good external data, but the model’s work is hard work that a young girl managed to cope with and succeed in this matter. In addition, she simultaneously decided to build a career in cinema, for which she graduated from acting courses. The purposefulness of this girl is definitely not to hold.
Looking at how Shay works hard and develops in what she likes and what successes she managed to achieve in a relatively short period of time, we can say with confidence that she will be very successful in this path. Therefore, she will once again please her fans with new appearances in the cinema and on the pages of top glossy magazines.