Smith was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, the only child of Patricia, an oncology nurse, and Jim Smith, a financial planner and Air Force pilot. (Interestingly, Shawnee would be typecast at age 15 as one of Jason Gedrick's fellow Air Force brats in the original Iron Eagle.) Shawnee attended Ranchito Elementary School in Panorama City, California.

Smith has two children: a daughter named Read more...

Smith's feature film debut was John Huston's 1982 adaptation of the Broadway musical Annie, as one of Aileen Quinn's fellow orphans. (Additional "orphans" included Martika, April Lerman and Amanda Peterson.)

Three years later, Shawnee co-starred in two troubled-teen melodramas, Not My Kid and Crime of Innocence (both 1985). The latter (whose writers Douglas Schwartz and Michael Berk would Read more...

Shawnee Smith (born July 3, 1970) is an American actress. As well as the many films and television shows in which she has appeared, Smith once fronted the band Fydolla Ho, with which she toured the USA and the UK.