Shawnee Smith Movies and Career Information

Shawnee Smith (born July 3, 1970) is an American film and television actress and musician. Smith is best known for her roles as Amanda Young in the Saw films and Linda in the CBS sitcom Becker. Smith once fronted the punk/metal band Fydolla Ho, with which she toured the United States and the United Kingdom, and is also the other half of Smith & Pyle, a desert country-rock band, with actress Missi Pyle. Shawnee Smith was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, the second child of Patricia, an oncology nurse, and Jim Smith, a financial planner and former US Air Force pilot. The family relocated from South Carolina to Van Nuys, California when she was a year old. Smith's biological parents divorced when she was two and her mother remarried when she was eight. She attended Ranchito Avenue Elementary School in Panorama City, California. She also attended North Hollywood High School in North Hollywood, California and graduated in 1987. Smith began acting as a child appearing on stage in A Christmas Carol repertory from age 8 to 11 and starred in a stage play with Richard Dreyfuss at age 15. She also performed in the original stage production of To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday and won the