Years active: 1978 - present (46 years in the business)
About Shawnee Smith
Shawnee Smith (born July 3, 1969) is an American actress and singer. She is known for playing Linda in the CBS sitcom Becker and Amanda Young from the Saw franchise. She was part of the country rock band, Smith & Pyle. She hosted season one the VH1 acting competition Scream Queens.
Smith began her acting career at a young age, making her feature film debut at age 11 in John Huston's Annie, playing one of the orphans. A few years later, she made her stage debut in To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday and won a Drama-League Critics Award. In the late 1980s, she was cast in smaller roles before getting her first starring role in the remake of The Blob (1988) and a supporting role in the film Who's Harry Crumb? (1989).
In the 1990s she made guest appearances on Murder, She Wrote and The X-Files before being cast in a main role of the sitcom Becker (1998–2004). In 2004, she played Amanda in Saw and reprises her role in the sequels, Saw II (2005), Saw III (2006), and Saw VI (2009). She played Jennifer Goodson in Anger Management from 2012 to 2014 in 100 episodes. Smith will appear in Saw X, scheduled to be released in October 2023.
