American actor, singer and songwriter

Shannon Bruce Snaith [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ( born June 10, 1978 [ 3 ] ), better known as Shane West, is an american actor, singer, and songwriter. He is known for his depicting of Eli Sammler in the ABC family drama Once and Again, Landon Carter in A Walk to Remember, Dr. Ray Barnett in the NBC checkup drama ER, and Michael Bishop in The CW spy play Nikita. He besides starred in the WGN fantasy venture diachronic drama Salem as John Alden. ampere well as work, West has performed with hood rock band the Germs, Jonny Was, and the Twilight Creeps.

early life [edit ]

West was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Leah Catherine ( née Launey ), a lawyer, and Don Snaith, a drugstore owner. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Both his parents were musicians and had their own punk rock bands. [ 6 ] His mother is of Cajun French lineage and his father was born in Jamaica, of british and portuguese origin. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] He is the firstborn of three children with a baby Simone and a half sister Marli Ann. His parents divorced in 1982 when he was four years old. [ 9 ] Influenced by his parents, he grew up listening to the Clash, the Jam, Blondie, Elvis Costello, and the Kinks. [ 6 ] He said : “ I always thought I would be doing music preferably than acting. ” [ 6 ] At the old age of ten-spot, West and his sister Simone moved to Compton, California with their mother because she was looking for a better job. They former moved to Norwalk, California. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Embarrassed by his feminine beginning name, West went by his middle name Bruce but changed his name to Shane West in High school when he took up acting. [ 11 ] He struggled for two years and lived at his director ‘s house, [ 10 ] [ 12 ] before making his acting debut in 1995, appearing in the CBS play Picket Fences in the season 4, episode 6 “ Heart of Saturday Night ”, where he played Dave Lattimore .

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Acting [edit ]

West at the 2010 CBS Summer Press Tour Party In 1998, West guest-starred in several television receiver serial including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and played Mark Tapper in the stage output of The Cider House Rules. [ 13 ] He landed his first gear major role in 1999 in the ABC syndicate play Once and Again, playing Eli Sammler for three seasons. West ‘s feature of speech film debut was in Liberty Heights, a film about a jewish family in Baltimore, directed by Barry Levinson. He besides co-starred in adolescent comedies Whatever It Takes ( 2000 ) and Get Over It ( 2001 ). West was cast as Landon Carter diametric singer and actress Mandy Moore in 2002 ‘s adaptation of Nicholas Sparks ‘ novel A Walk to Remember. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times found him “ softly convincing ”. [ 14 ] His performance in the movie earned him a Teen Choice Award for Choice Chemistry with Moore. He besides appeared in the Mandy Moore music video recording “ Cry “. That class, West won the Young Hollywood Award Male Superstar of Tomorrow. In 2003, West starred as an adult version of Mark Twain ‘s Tom Sawyer in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen alongside Sean Connery. A year former, he joined the cast of the NBC checkup play, ER in the eleventh-season premier, playing nonmigratory Ray Barnett. In May 2007, West left ER at the end of the thirteenth temper after winning a function in Supreme Courtships, [ 15 ] but the series was not picked up by the Fox Network. In October 2008, West returned to ER for three episodes during its fifteenth and final examination season. [ 16 ] During suspension between seasons of ER, West worked on shooting What We Do Is Secret, an mugwump film, which premiered at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival after much delay. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] West helped to finance it. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] In the film, he portrays Darby Crash, a member of the 1970s hood band the Germs. Members of the band were so print by West ‘s performance that they re-formed the band with West taking the asleep Crash ‘s space. West received positive reviews for his depiction in the movie ; the San Francisco Chronicle stated that he is the one who “ lifts the entire film to a whole other level ”. [ 21 ] Similarly, The Seattle Times wrote that his caricature was “ deserving saluting ” while TV Guide called it “ pretty impressive ”. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] In 2008, he received the Rising Star Award in Philadelphia Film Festival for his make in What We Do is Secret. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] West starred as Michael Bishop in The CW spy drama Nikita from 2010 to 2013. In 2014, he began starring in the WGN America adventure/historical/fantasy drama Salem as John Alden for three seasons before the show ended in 2017. In 2018, West was cast as Eduardo Dorrance in the fifth and concluding season of Gotham. [ 26 ] In November 2018, it was revealed that West will portray the character of Billy Millikin in approaching feature film Gossamer Folds. [ 27 ] In November 2019 it was announced that West will star in the approaching sci-fi thriller No Running. [ 28 ]

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West ( kneeling ) performing with the Germs in 2009 West was the lead singer of bum rock band Jonny Was [ 29 ] for “ seven or eight years ”. [ 6 ] The band was originally known as average Joe but had to change its name for legal reasons. [ 30 ] The band contributed to the A Walk to Remember soundtrack, appearing under the names “ West, Gould, and Fitzgerald ” because they had not yet decided on a new diagnose. [ 30 ] West described their style as “ a pop-punk-type band, more green Day -ish ”. [ 6 ] In November 2005, while What We Do Is Secret was still in production, it was announced that West would be fronting the Germs on enlistment. [ 31 ] He performed with the band for about five years, doing an american enlistment ( including the 2006 Warped Tour ) and a european Tour. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] He described the experience as “ more arouse ” than acting. [ 34 ] however, after booking a lead character in Nikita, West had less time to play with the ring. His last performance was in December 2009. [ 32 ] In 2015, West reunited with some of his old bandmates from Jonny Was to form a new set called the Twilight Creeps. In October 2016, they released their debut album. [ 35 ] In January 2019, they announced they are releasing their moment album on February 1. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] In December of 2020, the Twilight Creeps released their first Christmas song entitled “ Poison in the Mistletoe ”. [ 38 ]

personal life sentence [edit ]

West is a sports fancier and avid garter of the New Orleans Saints and LSU Tigers football teams. In 2019 he lent his voice to some of the team ‘s pre-season video. [ 39 ] He lived in Toronto, Canada for six years during the film of the series Nikita. [ 40 ]

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