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Famous as :
ActressBirth Name :
Shannon Marie Kahoolani SossamonBirth Date :
October 03, 1979Birth Place :
Honolulu, Hawaii, USAClaim to fame :
As Lady Jocelyn in "A Knight's Tale" (2001)
Hollywood Stars Turned Out to Attend Heath Ledger's Memorial Service
February 04, 2008 11:02:07Family and celebrity friends of Heath Ledger attended the late actor's memorial service on the lot of Sony studios in Los Angeles Saturday, February 2.
The mega-stars who gathered for Heath's second L.A. service among others were Sienna Miller, talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, who once starred together with Heath's former fiancee Michelle Williams in the TV series "Dawson Creek", Heath's "Casanova" co-star Shannyn Sossamon, and director Todd Haynes who directed Heath in Bob Dylan film "I'm Not There" (2007).
Three More Testing for Justice League of America Roles
October 20, 2007 02:10:52Number of acting talents vying for starring slots in "Justice League of America" is getting greater. IESB.net has come up with reports saying Josh Duhamel and Bijou Phillips have both joined the competition while Cinematical.com has learned exclusively that Shannyn Sossamon underwent an audition for Wonder Woman role in the fast-tracking project.
What roles Duhamel and Phillips tested for, however, were not disclosed, but reps for the latter one did confirm to IESB that the actress indeed auditioned for a part in the ensemble superhero cast. Meanwhile, Sossamon was claimed to deeply impress writers Kieran and Michele Mulroney that they championed her to director George Miller to pick her as the Amazon princess.
Eight Sending "Heavy" Parcels
May 21, 2007 02:05:23
Heading for the same destination, Shannyn Sossamon, Vinnie Jones, Christopher Lee, George Harris, Gary Stretch, Stephen Rea, Geoff Bell, and Jean Marsh have all signed on to bring highlight to "The Heavy", a crime thriller set up at Parkland Pictures' pit.
Pic concerns a henchman (Stretch) who is forced to forgive a debt to his shady businessman boss (Rea) by killing his own brother, a high profile politician. The plan, however, begins to unravel when he gets involved with a student (Sossamon), whose flat he plans to use for the crime, and a corrupt detective (Jones) gets on his trail.
Six Immigrating to "Cracktown"
March 13, 2007 03:03:47
Building a promising ensemble cast, Shannyn Sossamon, Lara Flynn Boyle, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Mark Webber, and Tony Plana have all come onboard to join Victor Rasuk and Kerry Washington in urban drug-addiction drama "Life Is Hot in Cracktown", The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.
Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's eponymous 1993 collection of short stories, the project intertwines several unsettling tales of people in a neighborhood ravaged by crack cocaine. The author himself has been confirmed to both write and direct with Larry Rattner and William Fisch producing for Ithaka Entertainment.
Burns and Sossamon Pick Up "One Missed Call"
July 29, 2006 10:07:39
"One Missed Call" finally has found the right stars to answer its call for proper cast. Edward Burns and Shannyn Sossamon have been confirmed to play the two leading characters in this horror remake of the Japanese hit flick, "Chakushin ari"
Intended to be filmed in Atlanta, the movie's screenplay is adapted from the original feature by Andrew Klavan while Eric Valette will handle the directing matters. Alcon Entertainment, Intermedia and Kadokawa Pictures USA set to produce with Warner Bros. Pictures taking care the film's distribution.
