Shane West

American actor, musician and songwriter

Shane West is an American actor, singer, and songwriter known for his roles in TV shows like Once and Again, ER, and Nikita. He has also performed with punk rock bands and received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Darby Crash in the biopic What We Do Is Secret.

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About the Shane West

Shannon Bruce Snaith (born June 10, 1978), better known as Shane West, is an American actor, singer and songwriter. He is known for his portrayal of Eli Sammler in the ABC family drama Once and Again, Landon Carter in A Walk to Remember, Dr. Ray Barnett in the NBC medical drama ER, Michael Bishop in The CW spy drama Nikita and in the WGN fantasy adventure historical drama Salem as John Alden. West received critical acclaim for his performance portraying Darby Crash in the biopic What We Do Is Secret.

As well as acting, West has performed with punk rock bands the Germs, Jonny Was, and the Twilight Creeps.

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Shane West is an American actor, singer, and songwriter. He is known for his roles in TV shows such as Once and Again, ER, and Nikita.

In addition to his acting career, Shane West has performed with punk rock bands like the Germs, Jonny Was, and the Twilight Creeps.

Shane West received critical acclaim for his performance portraying Darby Crash in the biopic What We Do Is Secret.

Shane West is known for his portrayal of Eli Sammler in the ABC family drama Once and Again, Dr. Ray Barnett in the NBC medical drama ER, and Michael Bishop in The CW spy drama Nikita.

Shane West, whose full name is Shannon Bruce Snaith, was born on June 10, 1978.

Shane West’s real name is Shannon Bruce Snaith.

Shane West starred in the WGN fantasy adventure historical drama Salem as John Alden.

25 Quotes by Shane West

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    Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    Sexy is kind of like an aura around someone.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    When what’s around you – such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 – it’s kind of been what’s been there for me.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    I’m not giving up acting, I’m definitely not going to stop.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous – basically – a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    I’ve never had a day job. I’ve been very fortunate.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    I’ve always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    I used to comb my hair back and do stupid stuff.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    I’m 25, but I was a kid on the set. But everybody was really great.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    He’s a guy’s guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions – don’t imitate Sean Connery’s voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    I’m going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    But it’s cool to be noticed for the smallest part of that.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    I found out some really cool ways to swing around the Winchester.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that’s really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    Sexy, to me, doesn’t have anything to do with beautiful.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    I usually think in terms of music.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    At the same time, reading an action script… It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don’t know.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    I had never really fired guns before, so this was all very new to me.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter

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    To me, the 90’s signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.

    Shane West

    American actor, musician and songwriter