---
name: "Shelley Waggener"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shelley-waggener"
fi1m_id: "shelley-waggener"
imdb_id: "nm3388331"
tmdb_id: 126487
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 September 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:49:02.089681+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."
---

# Shelley Waggener

## Identity

Shelley Waggener

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shelley-waggener
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** shelley-waggener
- **IMDb ID:** nm3388331
- **TMDB ID:** 126487
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3388331/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/126487

Actor. Born 30 September 1964 in St. Joseph - Missouri - USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 September 1964, St. Joseph - Missouri - USA
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 84 (1), 2010s 85 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3388331/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/126487

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Winter's Bone*](https://film.one/film/winters-bone.md) (85)

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

## Biography

Shelley Waggener is an American actress. She was born on 30 September 1964 in St. Joseph, Missouri, and raised near Branson, Missouri. She trained at Plaza Three Academy, a performing arts school in Phoenix, Arizona, before moving to Los Angeles.

Waggener's screen credits include an uncredited role in *Punch-Drunk Love* (2002) and the part of Sonya in *Winter's Bone* (2010). She has appeared in other films such as *Leprechaun 2* (1994), *Break a Leg* (2005), *Above Ground* (2017) and *The Last Movie Star* (2017). She has also worked as a writer and producer.

*Sources: imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *Winter's Bone* (2010), Fi1m 85, as Sonya — [page](https://film.one/film/winters-bone.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Punch-Drunk Love* (2002), Fi1m 84, as Co-Worker (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/punch-drunk-love.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *Winter's Bone* (2010), as Sonya — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/winters-bone.md)
- *Punch-Drunk Love* (2002), as Co-Worker (uncredited) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/punch-drunk-love.md)

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