Shannon Marie Kahololani "Shannyn" Sossamon (born October 3, 1978), is
an American actress, director, and musician. She has appeared in the
films A Knight's Tale (2001), 40 Days and 40 Nights, The Rules of
Attraction (both 2002), The Order (2003), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005),
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 to Warpaint from 2004 to 2008. She abruptly left the group
after recording their first EP. Sossamon's sole recording with the
band is the 2009 EP Exquisite Corpse.In 2009, Sossamon began directing
and producing shorts and music videos through her small production
company, the Maudegone Theater. In 2019 she created a video channel
called THE MAUDE ROOM, a variety show in which she serves as writer,
director, and performer.Shannon Marie Kahololani Sossamon was born on
October 3, 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and was raised in Reno, Nevada.
She is the daughter of Sherry Sossamon, a nurse, and Todd Lindberg.
She has a younger sister, singer Jenny Lee Lindberg, who was born in
1981. Her parents divorced when she was five, and Sossamon and her
sister were then raised by her mother, who married Randy Goldman, a
salesman and manager of an auto dealership. Her maternal grandmother
is of Hawaiian and Filipina descent, while the rest of her ancestry is
English, German, Dutch, French, and Irish. Sossamon attended Galena
High School in Reno, graduating in 1995. The day after her high school
graduation, she relocated to Los Angeles with two friends, to study
dance. "Nothing compares to that feeling when you first leave home and
arrive somewhere new," she once recalled. "When we woke up in the
morning, just making coffee felt amazing. It felt like being so free
â€" just to wake up and make coffee and look at our couch." The y in
her first name was an alteration in 1995.
an American actress, director, and musician. She has appeared in the
films A Knight's Tale (2001), 40 Days and 40 Nights, The Rules of
Attraction (both 2002), The Order (2003), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005),
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 to Warpaint from 2004 to 2008. She abruptly left the group
after recording their first EP. Sossamon's sole recording with the
band is the 2009 EP Exquisite Corpse.In 2009, Sossamon began directing
and producing shorts and music videos through her small production
company, the Maudegone Theater. In 2019 she created a video channel
called THE MAUDE ROOM, a variety show in which she serves as writer,
director, and performer.Shannon Marie Kahololani Sossamon was born on
October 3, 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and was raised in Reno, Nevada.
She is the daughter of Sherry Sossamon, a nurse, and Todd Lindberg.
She has a younger sister, singer Jenny Lee Lindberg, who was born in
1981. Her parents divorced when she was five, and Sossamon and her
sister were then raised by her mother, who married Randy Goldman, a
salesman and manager of an auto dealership. Her maternal grandmother
is of Hawaiian and Filipina descent, while the rest of her ancestry is
English, German, Dutch, French, and Irish. Sossamon attended Galena
High School in Reno, graduating in 1995. The day after her high school
graduation, she relocated to Los Angeles with two friends, to study
dance. "Nothing compares to that feeling when you first leave home and
arrive somewhere new," she once recalled. "When we woke up in the
morning, just making coffee felt amazing. It felt like being so free
â€" just to wake up and make coffee and look at our couch." The y in
her first name was an alteration in 1995.
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