Shane West
Sign in to saveAmerican actor, musician and songwriter
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1978-06-10
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Unicorns Coloring Book
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Film & TV
Acting · Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Shane West (born Shannon Bruce Snaith) is an American actor, punk rock musician and songwriter. He is best known for portraying Eli Sammler on ABC's family drama Once and Again, Landon Carter in A Walk to Remember, Michael Bishop in The CW spy drama Nikita, and Dr. Ray Barnett on NBC's medical drama ER. West made his acting debut in 1995, appearing in the CBS drama Picket Fences in season 4:…
Known for
- Deadly Vows — Max2025
- Pig Hill — Andy2025
- Theater Is Dead — Matthew2025
- Last Night on Earth — Gene2024
- La Usurpadora — Chad2023
- The Dirty South — Dion2023
- Walden — Detective Bill Kane2023
- Mid-Century — Tom Levin2022
- Maneater — Will Coulter2022
- Escape the Field — Ryan2022
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Shane West (born Shannon Bruce Snaith on June 10, 1978) is an American television and film actor. He is probably best known for his roles on the television series ER and in the film A Walk to Remember. West was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Don Snaith (a drugstore owner who was born in Jamaica) and Catherine, both of whom were musicians; he has a younger sister, Simone, and a much younger half-sister, Marli Ann. His parents divorced and at the age of 10, West moved to California with his mo
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,782x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,678x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- A Simple, Positive Semi-Definite, Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation Consistent Covariance Matrix
· 1987 · cited 14,913x
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Key facts
- Born
- Shannon Bruce Snaith , ( 1978-06-10 ) June 10, 1978 (age 47) , Baton Rouge, Louisiana , U.S.
- Occupations
- Actor singer songwriter
- Years active
- 1995–present
- Genres
- Punk rock
- Instrument
- Vocals
- Formerly of
- Germs , Jonny Was, Twilight Creeps
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Key dates
- Born
- 10 June 1978
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- West
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Baton Rouge
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Shane West April 2015 (cropped).jpg
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Shannon Bruce Snaith (born June 10, 1978), better known as Shane West, is an American actor, singer and songwriter. He is known for his portrayal of Eli Sammler in the ABC family drama Once and Again, Landon Carter in A Walk to Remember, Dr. Ray Barnett in the NBC medical drama ER, Michael Bishop in The CW spy drama Nikita and in the WGN fantasy adventure historical drama Salem as John Alden. West received critical acclaim for his performance portraying Darby Crash in the biopic What We Do Is Secret.
As well as acting, West has performed with punk rock bands the Germs, Jonny Was, and the Twilight Creeps.
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