Shelby Young

Shelby Young is an American actress with lead and supporting roles under her belt in numerous film and television projects. Shelby's most recent work consists of the starring role of Vivian in the film "A Haunting in Cawdor", a psychological thriller also starring Cary Elwes. Her other recent work includes the lead role of Amy Lawrence in Lifetime movie, "The House Sitter". Previously, Shelby had two back-to-back lead roles in both feature films "The Midnight Game" and "Nightlight", and a very intense guest starring role on the long-standing Television series, "Criminal Minds". Another recent film venture for Shelby was none other than the Oscar nominated, David Fincher directed/Aaron Sorkin penned, "The Social Network."Alternately praised and hated by soap fans for her work as the spiteful Kinsey on the legendary NBC property "Days Of Our Lives", possibly Shelby's most buzzed about role was her stint as a recurring character on the Emmy winning, Ryan Murphy/Brad Falchuk created series "American Horror Story" on FX. Years of commercial, voice, modeling and stage work led Shelby to a recurring role as Jennifer on the CW's "Everybody Hates Chris", guest star roles on the hit MTV series, "Awkward." along with "Ghost Whisperer" and "Freddie", and a high profile supporting role alongside Emma Roberts, Aidan Quinn and the late Natasha Richardson in Universal's "Wild Child" movie.Shelby was the original pilot lead for Nickelodeon's popular "Lazytown" project and has also appeared in the films "2 Bedroom 1 Bath", "Waltzing Anna" & "The Naked Brothers Band Movie". Shelby has done extensive voice work, her most recent endeavor was recording the role of Becca in the multi-platform, best-selling game, "Battlefield 1". For the past two holiday seasons, Shelby has recorded multiple Toys 'R Us commercials. She has also lent both her voice and movement (through motion capture) to the lead role of Annie in the XboxOne launch title "Dead Rising 3". Her other voice work ranges from being the "General Mills" girl in New York, where she previously voiced a large number of the Lucky Charms, Trix and Coco Puffs commercials to ADR work in popular films, such as Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto", Wes Craven's "My Soul To Take", "Bridge to Terabithia", and many soon to be released titles. Show less «