Shannyn Sossamon

stars  In 1999, she was assisting a friend who was working as a DJ for actress Gwyneth Paltrow and her younger brother Jake’s joint birthday party (the siblings have a birthday just 1 day apart). It was at that event that she was discovered by casting director Francine Maisler who was then casting for the starring role in the medieval adventure comedy film titled A Knight’s Tale (2001). It became Shannyn’s first feature film and a breakthrough in her acting career.

stars  She had replaced the letter ‘o’ with the letter ‘y’ in her birthname of Shannon in 1995, the year of her high school graduation.

stars  Shannyn, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, was raised by her mother primarily in Reno, Nevada after her parents had got divorced when she was 5 years old. Consequently, she had taken her mother’s surname as her last name instead of her father’s.

stars  She likes to eat pizza and chocolate. She also likes swimming, watching TV, house and dance music, sexy underwear, reading romance books, white gold, sports and exotic cars, watching soap operas on TV, wearing Gucci, new electronic gadgets, sleeping on water mattresses, drinking coffe, dancing, DJ-ing, taking pictures, writing, music, drums wearing clothes made of silk, and horseback riding. E-mailing is one of her favorite things to do as well, she writes about 50 e-mails a day.

stars  She is allergic to bird's feathers.