Shawnee Smith
Whether she's performing with her desert rock band Smith & Pyle or torturing unlucky innocents in the "Saw" movies, actress Shawnee Smith keeps finding new ways to explore and challenge her creative talents. The South Carolina native began acting in 1982 with a small role as a dancer in the musical "Annie," and guest-starred on the popular series "Silver Spoons" (NBC, 1982-87) before landing the lead role in the 1988 remake of "The Blob." While she flexed her comedic muscles alongside Ted Danson on "Becker" (CBS, 1998-2004), off-screen Smith let her inner wild child out in Fydolla Ho, a punk metal band she formed with former Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo. In 2004 the self-professed "scaredy-cat" faced her fears in the wildly successful indie horror film "Saw" (2004). Her iconic performance, helped along by a well-placed bear trap, propelled the brunette beauty to a central role in the series; she returned to wreak havoc in "Saw II" (2005) and "Saw III" (2006), and made a brief appearance in "Saw VI" (2009). But even as her reputation as film's newest scream queen grew, by 2008 Smith was back in the recording studio with Smith & Pyle, her country rock duo with fellow actress Missi Pyle. With her role as Charlie Sheen's entrepreneurial ex-wife on FX's "Anger Management" (2012-14), Smith returned to the small screen and proved a worthy comic foil for the notoriously wild card actor.
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Shawnee Smith
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Saw XI | Amanda Young (Character) | - | 2025 |
No Score Yet |
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Bloodline Killer |
Moira Cole (Character), Producer |
- | 2024 |
81% |
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Saw X | Amanda Young (Character) | $53.4M | 2023 |
No Score Yet |
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Christmas vs. the Walters |
Diane Walters (Character), Producer |
- | 2021 |
33% |
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Believe | Dr. Nancy Wells (Character) | $886.1K | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Savannah Sunrise | Joy (Character) | - | 2016 |
57% |
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Grace Unplugged | Michelle Trey (Character) | $2.5M | 2013 |
33% |
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Jayne Mansfield's Car | Vicky Caldwell (Character) | $14.4K | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Kill Speed | Honey (Character) | - | 2010 |
39% |
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Saw VI | Amanda (Character) | $27.7M | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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The Grudge 3 | Sullivan (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tattoos: A Scarred History | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Secrets of an Undercover Wife | Lisa (Character) | - | 2007 |
29% |
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Saw III | Amanda (Character) | $80.2M | 2006 |
38% |
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Saw II | Amanda (Character) | $87.0M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Almost Guys | Bigger (Character) | - | 2004 |
50% |
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Saw | Amanda (Character) | $650.1K | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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Never Get Outta the Boat | Dawn (Character) | - | 2002 |
27% |
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A Slipping-Down Life | Faye-Jean Lindsay (Character) | $95.4K | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Party Crashers | Carolyn (Character) | - | 1999 |
27% |
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Breakfast of Champions | Bonnie MacMahon (Character) | $175.4K | 1999 |
20% |
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Carnival of Souls | Sandra Grant (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Twice Upon a Time | Maggie Fowler (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Eat Your Heart Out | Nicole (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Bombshell | Shelly (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Dogtown | Tammy Hayes (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Men | Clara (Character) | $3.1K | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Dead Men Can't Dance | Sgt. Addy Cooper (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Something Borrowed, Something Blue | Teri (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Face of Evil | Jeanelle Polk (Character) | - | 1996 |
29% |
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Desperate Hours | May Cornell (Character) | $2.6M | 1990 |
27% |
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Who's Harry Crumb? | Nikki Downing (Character) | $10.4M | 1989 |
68% |
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The Blob | Meg Penny (Character) | $7.8M | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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I Saw What You Did | Kim Fielding (Character) | - | 1988 |
57% |
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Summer School | Rhonda Altobello (Character) | $33.3M | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Easy Prey | Tina Marie Risico (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Crime of Innocence | Jodi Hayward (Character) | - | 1985 |
TV
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23% | 55% | Anger Management | Jennifer Goodson (Character) | 2012-2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Halloween Wars | Judge | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wendy Williams Show | Guest | 2012 |
59% | 44% | Law & Order: LA | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scream Queens |
Unknown (Character), Host, Judge |
2008 2010 |
No Score Yet | 96% | Becker | Nurses' Aide Linda (Character) | 1998-2004 |
14% | No Score Yet | The Tom Show | Unknown (Character) | 1997-1998 |
31% | No Score Yet | Arsenio | Unknown (Character) | 1997 |
74% | 86% | The X-Files | Jessie O'Neil (Guest Star) | 1994 |
70% | 73% | Stephen King's The Stand | Unknown (Character) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Jill Cleveland (Guest Star) | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bluegrass | Alice Gibbs (Character) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All Is Forgiven | Sonia Russell (Character) | 1986 |