Shawnee Smith Overview

Born in South Carolina, Shawnee Smith moved to Van Nuys, California when she was eight years old with her mother, who was getting married to a Californian. She began tap dancing at three, and performing in community theater when she was nine. Her first professional job was a McDonald's commercial, and her movie debut came at age 11 in the musical Annie (1982), playing a dancing/singing orphan. She then starred opposite Richard Dreyfuss in The Hands of Its Enemy at Los Angeles' Huntington... See All