Shannon Marie Kahololani Sossamon, known as Shannyn Sossamon, is an American actress and musician. She starred in the films A Knight's Tale, 40 Days and 40 Nights, Wristcutters: A Love Story, The Order and Road to Nowhere. Sossamon also had a starring role on the CBS superna...
Young Hollywood Award for Breakthrough Performance - Female
Music Groups
Warpaint
Nominations
MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Chemistry, Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Breakout Star, MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Sequence, MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance - Female, Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress: Horror/Thriller
Movies
A Knight's Tale, Sinister 2, The Rules of Attraction, 40 Days and 40 Nights, Wristcutters: A Love Story, One Missed Call, The Order, The Holiday, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Life Is Hot in Cracktown, The End of Love, Road to Nowhere, Undiscovered, Our Family Wedding, Catacombs, Fight for Your Right Revisit...
TV Shows
How to Make It in America, Moonlight, Dirt, Wayward Pines, Sleepy Hollow
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Fact
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2001: Appeared in the music video for "God Gave Me Everything" by Mick Jagger feat. Lenny Kravitz.
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Sister of Jenny Lee Lindberg who plays bass guitar in the band Warpaint.
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She played drums for the first album of the band Warpaint and directed the video "Undertow".
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Gave birth to her second son, Mortimer, in December 2011. Child's father is her 2nd ex-boyfriend.
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Served on on the Feature Jury at the 2010 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.
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1995: As an adolescent, she added the "y" in her first name.
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Is of French, Dutch, English, Irish, Hawaiian, Filipino and German descent. Her maternal grandmother is of Hawaiian and Filipino descent, and her maternal grandfather is of English and German ancestry.
2002: Was featured as #33 in Maxim Magazine's "Hot 100 of 2002" supplement.
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2002: Ranked #55 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World".
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She gave birth to her first child, a son with children's book author and her ex-boyfriend Dallas Clayton named Audio Science Clayton, born on May 29, 2003.
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Was with her friend, who deejayed for Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Paltrow's joint birthday party in Hollywood, when discovered by Brian Helgeland, director of A Knight's Tale (2001). Was in three commercials before being in the movies.