
Also known as Shawnee Rebecca Smith
American actress
Acting · Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA
Shawnee Smith is an American actress and musician. She is best known for her role as Amanda Young in the Saw franchise.
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Shawnee Smith (born July 3, 1969) is an American actress and singer. She began her acting career at a young age, making her feature film debut in Annie (1982). A few years later, she made her stage debut in To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1984) and won a Drama-League Critics Award. In the late 1980s, she was cast in smaller roles before getting roles in The Blob (1988) and Who's Harry Crumb? (1989).
She made guest appearances on Murder, She Wrote and The X-Files across the 1990s, before being cast in a main role of the sitcom Becker (1998–2004). She played Amanda Young in Saw (2004) and reprised her role in the sequels Saw II (2005), Saw III (2006), Saw VI (2009) and Saw X (2023). She also had a supporting role in The Grudge 3 (2009). Smith hosted season one of the VH1 acting competition Scream Queens (2008) and played Jennifer Goodson in Anger Management (2012–2014).
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Shawnee Smith is a film and television actress most well known from the TV series Becker playing the ditzy secretary Linda as well as from the gory Saw film series playing Amanda Young. She fronted a band called Fydolla Ho and recorded songs on her own. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Shawnee+Smith">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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