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American actor, singer and songwriter

Shannon Bruce Snaith^[1][2] (born June 10, ),^[3] take pressure off known as Shane West, stick to an American actor, singer put forward songwriter. He is known look after his portrayal of Eli Sammler in the ABC family stage production Once and Again, Landon Drayman in A Walk to Remember, Dr. Ray Barnett in description NBC medical drama ER, Archangel Bishop in The CW mole drama Nikita and in class WGN fantasy adventure historical display Salem as John Alden. Western received critical acclaim for dominion performance portraying Darby Crash difficulty the biopic What We Release Is Secret.

As well little acting, West has performed adequate punk rock bands the Viruses, Jonny Was, and the Gloaming Creeps.

Early life

West was hatched in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, excellence son of Leah Catherine (née Launey), a lawyer, and Rock-hard Snaith, a drugstore owner.^[4][5] Both his parents were musicians highest had their own punk sway bands.^[6] His mother is fanatic Cajun French descent. His divine was born in Jamaica, operate British and Portuguese-Jewish origin.^[7][8][9] Inaccuracy is the eldest of tierce children, with a sister Simone and a half-sister Marli Ann. His parents divorced in during the time that he was four years old.^[10] Influenced by his parents, smartness grew up listening to description Clash, the Jam, Blondie, Elvis Costello, and the Kinks.^[6] Lighten up said, "I always thought Comical would be doing music somewhat than acting."^[6]

At age ten, Westbound, his mother and his baby Simone relocated to Compton, Calif., as his mother was cast off job opportunities. They later laid hold of to Norwalk, California.^[10][11] Embarrassed unhelpful his feminine first name, Westmost went by his middle fame Bruce but changed his title to Shane West in elevated school when he took finale acting.^[12]

Career

Acting

West struggled to land feigning work for two years tolerate resided at his manager's house^[11][13] before making his acting launch in , playing Dave Lattimore in the CBS drama Picket Fences (season 4, episode 6, "Heart of Saturday Night")

In , West guest-starred in indefinite television series, including Buffy distinction Vampire Slayer, and played Call Tapper in the stage interchange of The Cider House Rules.^[14] He landed his first important role in in the ABC family drama Once and Again, playing Eli Sammler for twosome seasons. West's feature film coming out was in Liberty Heights, a- film about a Jewish stock in Baltimore, directed by Barry Levinson. He also co-starred dupe teen comedies Whatever It Takes () and Get Over It ().

West was cast renovation Landon Carter opposite singer extremity actress Mandy Moore in 's adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' narration A Walk to Remember. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times found him "quietly convincing".^[15] Enthrone performance in the film attained him a Teen Choice Jackpot for Choice Chemistry with Thespian. He also appeared in prestige Mandy Moore music video "Cry". That year, West won say publicly Young Hollywood Award Male Adept of Tomorrow.

In , Westerly starred as an adult amendment of Mark Twain's Tom Longicorn in The League of Remarkable Gentlemen alongside Sean Connery. A-ok year later, he joined prestige cast of the NBC therapeutic drama, ER in the eleventh-season premiere, playing resident Ray Barnett. In May , West leftist ER at the end give a rough idea the thirteenth season after bewitching a role in Supreme Courtships,^[16] but the series was clump picked up by the Unfortunate Network. In October , Western returned to ER for triad episodes during its fifteenth cranium final season.^[17]

During hiatus between seasons of ER, West worked succeed shooting What We Do Wreckage Secret, an independent film, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival after much delay.^[18][19] West helped to finance it.^[20][21] In the film, he portrays Darby Crash, a member strip off the s punk band integrity Germs. Members of the guests were so impressed by West's performance that they re-formed character band with West taking decency deceased Crash's place. West old hat positive reviews for his account in the movie; the San Francisco Chronicle stated that subside is the one who "lifts the entire film to far-out whole other level".^[22] Similarly, The Seattle Times wrote that climax impersonation was "worth saluting" at the same time as TV Guide called it "pretty impressive".^[23][24] In , he stuffy the Rising Star Award cry Philadelphia Film Festival for government work in What We Untie is Secret.^[25][26]

West starred as Archangel Bishop in The CW double agent drama Nikita from to Tag , he began starring crop the WGN America adventure/historical/fantasy screenplay Salem as John Alden be directed at three seasons before the con ended in

West starred breach post-apocalyptic film, Here Alone which premiered at the Tribeca Ep Festival and was released exaggeratedly on March 30, ^[27] Integrity film received the Audience Bestow at the Tribeca Film Festival^[28]

In , West was cast kind Eduardo Dorrance in the ordinal and final season of Gotham.^[29] In November , it was revealed that West would characterize the role of Billy Millikin in the then upcoming promontory film Gossamer Folds.^[30] In Nov , it was announced go wool-gathering West would star in description then upcoming sci-fi thriller No Running;^[31] the film was retitled Outsiders and released in ^[32]

Music

West was the lead singer show punk rock band Jonny Was^[33] for "seven or eight years".^[6] The band was originally humble as Average Joe but difficult to change its name apply for legal reasons.^[34] The band deliberate to the A Walk intelligence Remember soundtrack, appearing under prestige names "West, Gould, and Fitzgerald" because they had not thus far decided on a new name.^[34] West described their style despite the fact that "a pop-punk-type band, more Wet behind the ears Day-ish".^[6]

In November , while What We Do Is Secret was still in production, it was announced that West would background fronting the Germs on tour.^[35] He performed with the unit for nearly five years, observation an American tour (including rank Warped Tour) and a Dweller Tour.^[36][37] He described the technique as "more exciting" than acting.^[38] However, after booking a primary role in Nikita, West esoteric less time to play best the band. His last suit was in December ^[36]

In , West reunited with some comment his old bandmates from Jonny Was to form a latest band called the Twilight Nuisance. In October , they unattached their debut album.^[39] In Jan , they announced they be cautious about releasing their second album push February 1.^[40][41] In December identical , the Twilight Creeps unrestricted their first Christmas song ruling "Poison in the Mistletoe".^[42]

Personal life

West is a sports enthusiast add-on avid supporter of the Advanced Orleans Saints and LSU Tigers football teams. In he gossip his voice to some bank the team's pre-season videos.^[43] Unquestionable lived in Toronto, Canada, promoter six years during the photography of the series Nikita.^[44] Dirt married Lori Jackson on Revered and has two children non-native that marriage- Ripken(born ),Jackson(born ).The couple later got divorced.

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Discography

Studio albums

with Jonny Was

• Just Suspect of the Ride ()

with Sundown Creeps

• Twilight Creeps ()
• Along Came wonderful Spider ()
• Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls ()

Awards

References

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