---
name: "Shannyn Sossamon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shannyn-sossamon"
fi1m_id: "shannyn-sossamon"
imdb_id: "nm0815370"
tmdb_id: 27855
wikidata_id: "Q232397"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 October 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-05T04:44:14.475209+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Shannyn Sossamon

## Identity

Shannyn Sossamon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shannyn-sossamon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** shannyn-sossamon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0815370
- **TMDB ID:** 27855
- **Wikidata ID:** Q232397
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannyn_Sossamon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232397, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0815370/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27855

Actor. Born 3 October 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 October 1978, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- **Active:** 2002–2014
- **Also known as:**  Shannon Marie Kahololani Sossamon, 샤닌 소세이먼, شنن سوسامون
- **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 63 (3), 2010s 86 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 69 to 64 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 4, Mystery 2, Romance 2, Animation 1, Crime 1, Family 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $316m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannyn_Sossamon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232397, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0815370/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27855

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Kiss Kiss Bang Bang*](https://film.one/film/kiss-kiss-bang-bang.md) (79)
- **Pluto TV:** [*40 Days and 40 Nights*](https://film.one/film/40-days-and-40-nights.md) (47)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Shannyn Sossamon is an American actress. She was born Shannon Marie Kahololani Sossamon on 3 October 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and raised in Reno, Nevada. After graduating from high school she moved to Los Angeles to study dance and worked as a DJ before entering acting.

Sossamon made her feature-film debut as Jocelyn in *A Knight's Tale* (2001). Subsequent credits include *40 Days and 40 Nights* (2002), *The Rules of Attraction* (2002), *Kiss Kiss Bang Bang* (2005) as Pink Hair Girl, *The Holiday* (2006) and *Sinister 2* (2015). She has also appeared in television series such as *Sleepy Hollow* (2013) and *Wayward Pines* (2015), and is a musician who played drums in the band Warpaint.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Over the Garden Wall* (2014), Fi1m 86, as Lorna (voice) — [page](https://film.one/tv/over-the-garden-wall.md)
- *The Holiday* (2006), Fi1m 64, as Maggie — [page](https://film.one/film/the-holiday.md)
- *Kiss Kiss Bang Bang* (2005), Fi1m 79, as Pink Hair Girl — [page](https://film.one/film/kiss-kiss-bang-bang.md)
- *40 Days and 40 Nights* (2002), Fi1m 47, as Erica Sutton — [page](https://film.one/film/40-days-and-40-nights.md)

## Complete filmography (42)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Hallowarrior* (2026), as Thalia · Executive Producer
- *Backspot* (2024), as Tracy
- *Grimcutty* (2022), as Leah Chaudhry
- *There Are No Saints* (2022), as Inez
- *High Holiday* (2021), as Liz Corksey
- *The Hour After Westerly* (2019), as The Woman
- *Ghost Light* (2018), as Liz Beth Stevens
- *Sinister 2* (2015), as Courtney Collins
- *Wayward Pines* (2015), series, as Theresa Burke
- *Over the Garden Wall* (2014), series, as Lorna (voice) — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/over-the-garden-wall.md)
- *Sleepy Hollow* (2013), series, as Pandora
- *Venice 70: Future Reloaded* (2013), as (segment Monte Hellman)
- *Stealing Time* (2013), Actor
- *Desire* (2013), Actor
- *The End of Love* (2013), as Lydia
- *The Day* (2011), as Shannon
- *Fight for Your Right Revisited* (2011), as Café Patron
- *Road to Nowhere* (2010), as Laurel Graham / Velma Duran
- *The Heavy* (2010), as Claire
- *Our Family Wedding* (2010), as Ashley McPhee
- *How to Make It in America* (2010), series, as Gingy Wu
- *Jerry* (2009), as Nurse
- *Life Is Hot in Cracktown* (2009), as Concetta
- *One Missed Call* (2008), as Beth Raymond
- *Wristcutters: A Love Story* (2007), as Mikal
- *Moonlight* (2007), series, as Coraline Duvall
- *Catacombs* (2007), as Victoria
- *Dirt* (2007), series, as Kira Klay
- *The Holiday* (2006), as Maggie — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-holiday.md)
- *DeVour* (2005), as Marisol
- *Kiss Kiss Bang Bang* (2005), as Pink Hair Girl — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/kiss-kiss-bang-bang.md)
- *Undiscovered* (2005), as Josie
- *The Double* (2005), as Melanie
- *Chasing Ghosts* (2005), as Taylor Spencer
- *The Order* (2003), as Mara Sinclair
- *The Rules of Attraction* (2002), as Lauren Hynde
- *Korn: Deuce* (2002), as Lab Assistant
- *40 Days and 40 Nights* (2002), as Erica Sutton — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/film/40-days-and-40-nights.md)
- *A Knight's Tale* (2001), as Jocelyn
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Myra Denning
- *There There*, Actor
- *Man Without a Head*, as Hazel

## Gallery

- ![Shannyn Sossamon](https://film.one/media/person/99082/gallery-2fa693666813.png) Shannyn Sossamon — Filippo mezetti, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Shannyn_Sossamon_a_MIFF_Awards_2013_crop.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Shannyn Sossamon at Comic-Con 2007 promoting Moonlight TV series](https://film.one/media/person/99082/gallery-6a8d47f0bfe5.jpg) Shannyn Sossamon at Comic-Con 2007 promoting Moonlight TV series — Maggie Kim, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Shannyn_Sossamon.jpg/1280px-Shannyn_Sossamon.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Shannyn Sossamon a MIFF Awards 2013 (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/99082/gallery-3f1041518e43.jpg) Shannyn Sossamon a MIFF Awards 2013 (2014) — MIFF Awards, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Shannyn_Sossamon_a_MIFF_Awards_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Shannyn Sossamon](https://film.one/media/person/99082/gallery-167b915c820b.jpg) Shannyn Sossamon — Image via TMDB
- ![Shannyn Sossamon](https://film.one/media/person/99082/gallery-d3d97fd55cc5.jpg) Shannyn Sossamon — Image via TMDB
- ![Shannyn Sossamon](https://film.one/media/person/99082/gallery-d0fdcbf078ec.jpg) Shannyn Sossamon — Image via TMDB
- ![Shannyn Sossamon](https://film.one/media/person/99082/gallery-8a02b98616e1.jpg) Shannyn Sossamon — Image via TMDB
- ![Shannyn Sossamon](https://film.one/media/person/99082/gallery-512382841a0d.jpg) Shannyn Sossamon — Image via TMDB
- ![Shannyn Sossamon](https://film.one/media/person/99082/gallery-2b60fa5750f9.jpg) Shannyn Sossamon — Image via TMDB

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