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Shannyn Sossamon
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Film & TV
Acting · Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Shannon Marie Kahololani Sossamon (born October 3, 1978) is an American film and television actress, dancer, model, and musician, best known for starring in feature films such as "A Knight's Tale" or "Wristcutters: A Love Story".
Known for
- Hallowarrior — Thalia2026
- Backspot — Tracy2024
- There Are No Saints — Inez2022
- Grimcutty — Leah Chaudhry2022
- High Holiday — Liz Corksey2021
- The Hour After Westerly — The Woman2019
- Ghost Light — Liz Beth Stevens2018
- Sinister 2 — Courtney Collins2015
- Wayward Pines — Theresa Burke2015
- Over the Garden Wall — Lorna (voice)2014
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Active from
- 1978
Discography
Member of
- Warpaint2004–2008
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 362
- Total plays
- 7,238
Tags
This Hawaii native moved to Nevada where she spent most of her early years. She then decided to make her way to L.A. to study her life passion, dance. Her dancing soon led to commercial work and appearances in music videos for Cher, Korn and Mick Jagger. Sossamon was discovered while attending a birthday party for Gwyneth Paltrow, where a friend of Shannyn's was deejaying. There the director of A Knight's Tale (2001) spotted her in the crowd and asked her to audition. She did and landed the sta
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Orthodontic tooth movement: The biology and clinical implications
· 2018 · cited 349x
- Inflammation in rat pregnancy inhibits spiral artery remodeling leading to fetal growth restriction and features of preeclampsia
· 2014 · cited 300x
- Identification of a host protein essential for assembly of immature HIV-1 capsids
· 2002 · cited 197x
- Activation of the PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint confers tumor cell chemoresistance associated with increased metastasis
· 2016 · cited 164x
- Hypoxia-mediated stimulation of carcinoma cell invasivenessvia upregulation of urokinase receptor expression
· 1999 · cited 135x
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Key facts
- Born
- Shannon Marie Kahololani Sossamon , ( 1978-10-03 ) October 3, 1978 (age 47) , Hawaii , U.S.
- Occupations
- Actress, director, musician
- Years active
- 1997–present
- Relatives
- Jenny Lee Lindberg (sister)
- Instruments
- Vocals, drums
- Formerly of
- Warpaint
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Encyclopedic overview
Shannon Marie Kahololani "Shannyn" Sossamon (born October 3, 1978) is an American actress and musician. She has appeared in the films A Knight's Tale (2001), 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002), The Rules of Attraction (2002), The Order (2003), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), The Holiday (2006), Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006), Road to Nowhere (2009), The End of Love (2012), and Sinister 2 (2015).
As a musician, she provided vocals and drums for Warpaint from 2004 to 2008. She left the group after recording their first EP, Exquisite Corpse. In 2009, Sossamon began directing and producing shorts and music videos through her production company, the Maudegone Theater.
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