American TV presenter Shawnee Rebecca Smith is endowed with versatile talents, which she implements as a composer, singer, actress and producer. In cinema, she is known for the following films and series: “Drop”, “Armageddon”, the franchise “Saw”, “Curse 3”, “Secret from parents” and “Anger management”. Shawnee Smith successfully combines acting with music, she owns playing 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, since Smith twice tied the knot. 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 a married couple of nurse Patricia Ann and an ex-pilot, now financial planner, James Smith, who was destined to become a famous person in modern show business. As soon as Shawnee was one year old, her parents moved from South Carolina to California, and settled in the van Nyce town of San Fernando. Unfortunately, soon her parents broke up, her mother remarried. The girl studied at the Ranchito Avenue Elementary elementary school, continued her education at high school, which she graduated in 1987.
Shawnee Smith began her creative career at the age of 8, with the participation in the production of "Christmas Carol in Prose." At the age of 15, she shared the stage with Richard Dreyfuss. After the triumph of the play "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
For the first time in a big movie, Shawnee Smith tried herself as an actress in D. Houston'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 very in demand. Annually, the films with her participation were released, including “Not My Child”, “Innocent Crime”, “Summer School”, “Drop”, “Who is Harry Kramb?”, “Brand of New Life”, “Hours of Despair”.
Realizing that she had outgrown teenage roles, Smith took a leave of absence that lasted three years. After a significant break, it was difficult for her to return to the movies, so for some time, Shawnee embodied the images of episodic and secondary characters on TV. During this period, Shawnee Smith’s track record has expanded to include films and TV shows: Confrontation, Brand Recipe, Silver Spoons, Law and Order, Players 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 editorials of the media, and the audience awarded the actress the title of Queen of Scream. By the way, playing the surviving victim, and after an associate of the Designer, the actress was in her fourth month of pregnancy. Nobody knew about this fact, except for the director Darren Lynn Bowsman. Her condition was betrayed only by occasionally swollen legs. Shawnee Smith later admitted that she felt genuine fear during the viewing of "Saws" or other horror.
Recent major work
In 2009, Smith joined the cast of the mystic horror cast “Curse 3”. She played the role of child psychologist Anne Sullivan. After she embodied the images of different characters in the films “Speed ​​of Killing”, “Jane Mansfield Machine”, “Believe”.
Several times, the actress shone as a guest star in the ABC series, for example, Law and Order and Secret from 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, who was played by the unrivaled Charlie Sheen.
With music for life
Shawnee, with her extraordinary ability to compose music and play music, made a great contribution to the creation of soundtrack and individual soundtracks of the Pila series horror. Also, the actress independently performs songs in the film "Carnival of Souls."
For some time, Smith was a soloist with the punk metal band Fydolla Ho and a member of the country band Smith & Pyle. After the collapse of the teams, Shawnee began to develop a solo career. But already in 2013 she stated that she had decided to give preference to a television career and raising children.