Jennifer Sipes

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name = Jennifer Sipes
birthdate = birth date and age |1984|12|26
birthplace = Monument, Colorado, US
spouse = Matthew Sipes (2004-present)
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occupation = Actress
yearsactive = 2005–present
homepage = http://www.jennifersipes.com
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Jennifer Marie Sipes (born December 26, 1984) is a SAG American actress and model currently residing in Dallas, Texas. [ [http://www.jennifersipes.com Jennifer Sipes website] .]

Early Life

Jennifer Marie Shakeshaft was born and raised in Monument, Colorado. She is the daughter of Kenneth Shakeshaft, an attorney, and Mary Shakeshaft, a real estate broker. She is the youngest of three siblings. She attended junior high school and high school at Lewis Palmer. During her junior high days, Jennifer became a member of the school forensics team where she regularly competed in such categories as humor and poetry. This began her stretch of success and training in public speaking and performance. She found a love for performing at a young age, participating in local stage performances such as "Cinderella" or "The Sound of Music". Jennifer excelled in sports as well and played volleyball throughout high school. She was known as the class clown who would one day pursue the dream of acting.

Following early graduation, Jennifer attended the University of Colorado for a semester. It was there that Jennifer met her husband Matthew Sipes. In 2003, Jennifer transferred to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City.

Career

Jennifer moved to Dallas, Texas in late 2004 after training in New York City at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. She quickly found work in all areas of the entertainment industry. Some of her commercial success included national ads for T.G.I. Friday's, Joe's Crab Shack, Nokia, and Pepsi Ring-tones. In 2006, Jennifer was cast as "Crystal Martin", a small town waitress, on the sequel projects ' [Imdb title|0804550|Walking Tall: The Payback.] and ' [Imdb title|0804551|Walking Tall: Lone Justice.] with Sony Pictures. Following their release, Jennifer worked on such independent features as Karma Police [Imdb title|0988868|Karma Police] an official selection of the AFI Dallas Film Festival and the upcoming horror film, From the Dark [Imdb title|1269717|From the Dark] playing "Brie". During that time, she contributed her vocal skills to "Cartoon Networks" series Shin Chan playing "Suki" and Ghost Hunt playing "Keiko". Shortly after, Jennifer began work alongside Fred Ward and Lea Thompson in "Exit Speed" [Imdb title|1042497|Exit Speed.] and "Tennessee Williams"' long lost screenplay, "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond" [Imdb title|0896031|The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond.] starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Evans. In early 2007, Jennifer became the co-host of GameStop "TV", [ [http://www.gamestop.com/gs/blog/archive/Blog_01_07-01_11_08.aspx GameStop Blog] .] a monthly in-store video airing in GameStop locations across the United States.

In the summer of 2008, Jennifer began work on the feature film "W." [Imdb title|1175491|W..] directed by Oliver Stone playing the roll of "Susie Evans" a long time friend of President George Bush. Within the same month, Jennifer also began filming for director Terrence Malick in the feature film "Tree of Life" playing the ex-girlfriend of Sean Penn. During this same time, Jennifer landed a regional casting search for the number one rated daytime soap, "The Young and the Restless". She will be filming for the soap opera sometime in 2008. [ [http://cbs11tv.com/video/?id=[e-mail] cbs11tv.com - Video Library] ] .

Jennifer most recently signed on to shoot the independent film Roslyn, an adventure/drama playing sorority leader, "Emily". Beginning in the fall of 2008, Jennifer will begin filming another independent feature titled "Code Enforcer" [Imdb title|1239348|Code Enforcer] shooting this fall with Erin Moran from "Happy Days".

Filmography

References

External links

* [http://www.jennifersipes.com Jennifer Sipes] official site
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* http://www.flixster.com/actor/jennifer-sipes