Shane West
Shane West
Shane Westis an American actor, punk rock musician and songwriter. West is known for his portrayal of Eli Sammler in the ABC family drama Once and Again, Landon Carter in A Walk to Remember, Darby Crash in What We Do Is Secret, Dr. Ray Barnett in the NBC medical drama ER and Michael Bishop in The CW spy drama Nikita. He currently stars in the WGN adventure/historical/fantasy drama Salem as John Alden...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 June 1978
CityBaton Rouge, LA
CountryUnited States of America
I used to comb my hair back and do stupid stuff
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
By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group
Certain people just go home and veg out, certain people go travel the world and certain people are like, "Screw this, I'm going to work the entire time."
Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird
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.
But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.
I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.
Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.
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.
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.
It's always hard to be away and relocate. When you relocate for a film, there's an end in sight.
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.
While watching the New Orleans Saints on television, I got angry and punched my bed, and then my remote control flew up and hit me in the head. My girlfriend didn`t stop laughing for an hour.