Shannon Woodward Bio - Biography

Name Shannon Woodward
Height
Naionality American
Date of Birth 17-December-1984
Place of Birth Phoenix, Arizona, U.S
Famous for Acting
Shannon Marie Woodward is an American actress known for playing Sabrina on Raising Hope and Di Di Malloy on The Riches.
Woodward was born in Phoenix, Arizona. As a child, she moved with her family to Boca Raton, Florida, where she attended Olympic Heights Community High School. There she began acting and later caught the attention of a casting director for Nickelodeon's Clarissa Explains It All. Besides acting, Woodward plays guitar and sings. She is also best friends with Katy Perry.
While living in Florida with her family, Woodward starred in several local community plays. Her first on-screen acting job came in 1991 when she played the occasionally recurring role of Missy on cable network Nickelodeon's Clarissa Explains It All. She reprised this role twice during the show's five season run.
After her sitcom debut, Woodward won small parts in a trio of made-for-TV movies. First, alongside Clarissa star Melissa Joan Hart in the 1995 made-for-tv drama Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare. Then in 1995 she played Lucy her second made-for-TV film, Tornado!. In 1997 she played an uncredited role in the CBS miniseries True Women.Between 2000 and 2005, Woodward played a number of minor roles in various television shows including The Drew Carey Show, Grounded for Life, Malcolm in the Middle, Crossing Jordan, Without a Trace, Psych, and Boston Public.Woodward's big-screen debut came in the 2005 when she played Emma Sharp, the daughter of Texas Ranger Roland Sharp (Tommy Lee Jones), who is assigned to protect a group of University of Texas cheerleaders who were witness to a murder in the action comedy Man of the House.