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Who is Shannyn Sossamon?

Shannyn Sossamon was born on the 3rd October 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is an actress, musician and dancer. She is of French, Hawaiian, Dutch, English, Irish, Filipino and German decent; her maternal grandmother is Hawaiian-Filipino, and her maternal grandfather is English-German. The y in her first name was an adolescent alteration in 1995. The day after her high school graduation, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in dance. She appeared in television commercials and had DJ gigs in local clubs. In 1999 she was discovered by casting director Francine Maisler, while assisting a friend DJ at Gwyneth Paltrow's birthday party. She has 3 tattoos, including an S with a flower on her right back shoulder, and an "S" backward on her left shoulder. She has a son, Audio Science Clayton, born on May 29th 2003. Shannyn continues to study acting, music and dance. She also plays drums in a band called Warpaint, with her sister Jennifer Lindberg and two friends Theresa Wayman and Emily Kokal. They plan to release their first EP soon