Fact Sheet:

Birth Name: Shannon Elizabeth Fadal
Birthdate: September 7, 1973
Birthplace: Houston, Texas
Occupations: Actor, Model
Quote: On being an object of male fantasy through her revealing film work and website: "I know a lot of guys go on the computer at night and do their thing, but I don't know...it's flattering and sweet. Maybe it makes up for all the time that nobody cared about me but my parents." --Details magazine, August 1999
Claim to Fame: Nadia, the lusty foreign exchange student in the teen sex comedy American Pie (1999)
Significant Other(s): Fiancé: Joseph D Reitman, actor
Father: Syrian and Lebanese descent
Mother: French, English, and Native American descent
Factoids: Appeared in a Playboy magazine layout shortly after filming American Pie (1999)
Has said she was a "bitch" in high school and that she liked getting people angry
Education: Waco High School, Waco, Texas; graduated.
Contact: Shannon Elizabeth
PMB 690
7336 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90046

Biography: Born on September 7th in Houston, Texas, an only child, of a Syrian/Lebanese father and a mother also of mixed decent (Cherokee Indian).
At age two she started taking ballet, tap and jazz. She loved to sing and dance and show off in any way possible. In her third grade year they moved to Waco, Texas, where a ton of her relatives already lived.
Her parents figured it would be safer to be raised in a small town versus the big city. Although Shannon says she found Waco was to be really boring!! Two things she loved to do when growing up were: making her mom laugh so hard that she couldnt breathe and arguing until she proved she was right. So, with that in mind, options seemed to be entertainer or lawyer.
During her senior year she had the opportunity to be in a video for a local band. The producer of the project thought that she should be in New York modeling and proceeded to pitch the idea to her parents.
That Christmas Shannon and her family ended up going to New York to have some pictures taken and meet with some agencies. By the end of our trip she had an agent.