Allison Shadwick

Allison Shadwick was born in St. Louis, Missouri and has lived her whole life in the same house in Belleville, Illinois. That was until she moved to Los Angeles, CA in June of 2010 to further her acting career. Allison has always been close to her family, her mom, 3 older sisters and her younger brother; her father passed away when she was 8 years old in 1996. Allison's dream has always been to act. For as long as she can remember she has always pictured herself as the characters she watched. In grade school Allison was in several plays. She was in school plays, the local high school plays as a child chorus member and was in drama summer camp at the local high school. Allison grew up being very shy and reserved; which held her back from auditioning for lead roles. Allison's shyness and fear of the stage carried with her through high school; instead of joining the drama club she went to the plays to watch. Now in Los Angeles Allison finally auditioned for a play and got a part in 2011. After Allison graduated high school in 2006 she decided she did not want to waste any more time and did what she could to start acting. She received her first roles as an extra in 2 films in 2006; for the first time she got to see how everything really works and fell in love. From then on Allison continued working in local films, TV, internet and a commercial. In 2009 Allison received her first lead role for a film in Jefferson City, MO. Even though Allison got the part she wanted to be a better actress and build her skills. Therefore, she began taking Acting lessons in Brentwood, MO with Scott-Arthur Allen at "The Creative Actors Workshop" for several months and took a semester of film classes at Southwestern Illinois College. Allison worked with the group in Jefferson City, MO for a year and was the lead in 3 uncompleted films. Allison decided to take her acting career to the next level and make the big move to Los Angeles, CA in June of 2010. Since Allison has lived in the Los Angeles area she has had several auditions, worked on a few films, a commercial, and an internet TV series and is now in a play. She has also been to several acting workshops, seminars, classes, an improv class and took a film fighting class for 2 months with Bob Goodwin at Film Fighting LA. All of these experiences have helped Allison grow not only as an actress but also as a person. She is determined and ready to advance in her acting career and she will not stop until it happens.