Fans of CW shows One Tree Hill, and The Flash are certainly familiar with the face of Shantel Vansanten. In the first, she played the role of Quinn James, the sister of Haley James Scott (Bethany Joy Lenz), and in the supporting role of detective Patty Spivot.
Beginning in 2017, Vansanten portrayed Julie Swagger, wife of lead character Bob Lee Swagger, in the USA Network Shooter series, which premiered in November 2016.
Besides acting, Vansanten is also a model who has appeared on the covers of Teen Vogue and Seventeen.
Shantel Vansanten Biography,
Shantel Vansanten was born on July 25, 1985 in Luverne, Minnesota and raised in Spring, Texas by her mother and grandmother, Doris. Vansanten is of Dutch and Norwegian descent.
She attended a preparatory school for young girls in Houston, Texas called Incarnate Word Academy. She was educated at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas.
Vansanten developed a passion for modeling when she was fifteen. She started with the Parkes Management page. In a bid to advance her modeling career, Shantel became one of the contestants on the NBC reality television series Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit Model Search. Unfortunately, she did not survive the first episode.
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She then landed a few small roles in television movies. Shantel in 2007 landed a role in the film adaptation of “tATu Come Back. ”After filming was completed, the film premiered in Russia in 2011, and then in the United States in 2012, with the title You and I.
2009 would become the year Shantel would land her big, well-deserved break which came after she starred in the fourth installment of Final Destination. Amazingly, she had never watched any of the Final Destination films at the time she landed the role.
Although not a fan of horror movies, Shantel makes sure to do her own stunts in Final Destination. The film first premiered to negative reviews, but it did well at the box office, grossing $186.2 million on a $40 million budget. The film remains his highest-grossing film to date.
It was also in 2009 that Shantel landed the recurring role of photographer Quin James on the 7th season of the hit CW series, One Tree Hill. She had auditioned for the role of Alexis but was asked to play Haley Scott’s sister. Shantel remained on OTH until the 9th and final season which ended in 2012.
Shantel has also had starring roles in shows like Gang Related (2014), The Messengers (2015) as well as a recurring role on The Flash. In film, Vansanten starred in Something Wicked, an independent psychological horror film filmed in 2009 but released in 2014.
Shantel Vansanten married/husband/boyfriend
One of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, Shantel is most guys’ dream girl. She was in a relationship with American sprinter Michael Johnson in 2008. This relationship would have ended a year later, in 2009.
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She then dated fellow birthday OTH costar James Lafferty. She is also rumored to have dated her OTH partner Robert Buckley. However, she later denied the dating rumors, saying they are just friends, very good friends. Here is an article she dedicated to him for his birthday in 2017.
In 2015, Shantel was rumored to be dating Columbia actor, John Fletcher. They met while filming the television series The Messengers. Rumors of their relationship began when paparazzi cameras caught them walking down the street with their arms crossed.
The rumors were confirmed when they took turns posting cute snaps of themselves on social media and fans couldn’t help but lash out at them.
Amazingly, in 2017, about a year after Dating officially began, fans discovered that both Shantel and John had taken photos of themselves from their individual social media accounts.
Although they have remained silent on the status of their relationship, we don’t need a diviner to tell us that it is officially over between them.
We are on the lookout for the next…
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Body measurements Shantel Vansanten
Vansanten is one of those fitness junkies. “When I’m on the set of One Tree Hill (2003), I get up and work four to five days a week,” she said in an interview.
She is a member of Women’s Health magazine, one of the largest fitness magazines in the world, and a regular contributor to its grassroots activities.
Also, she is a lover of sports many of which she actively participates in, they include; volleyball, kneeboarding and wakeboarding, athletics, water skiing, slalom and jet skiing, frisbee, football, flag, softball, badminton, as well as sprinting and running.
We now know how she got that killer.
BuddyTV ranked her 24th on the “100 Sexiest Women of the Year 2010” list and 21st in 2011.
Shantel is 5 feet 8 inches – 1.73m tall.
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