Shannon Elizabeth

Shannon Elizabeth was brought up in Texas. She was very much fond of tennis and at one point even wanted to be a professional tennis player. Before stepping into the films, she worked as a model in New York and Europe. After coming back from Europe, she modeled for Ford and also worked with some Ad agencies.

Prior to this, she also has taken up classes in acting and may be that has prompted her in pursuing a career in acting. Elizabeth married Joseph D. Reitman. The couple stayed together for almost a decade and then were separated in March 2005. Everybody were of the opinion that major reason for their breakup was when Joseph helped in playing a joke on her for Ashton Kutcher’s MTV television series Punk’d.

She describes poker as her second career. Elizabeth took part in the 2005 WSOP Main Event. In fact, she tasted some success in poker by winning a special tournament, which marked the opening of a new poker room at Caesars Palace, outsizing nearly 80 celebrities and wining $55,000. She is an animal lover who runs a non-profitable Animal Rescue Association, which is primarily devoted towards rescuing homeless pets and preventing animal cruelty. In one of the celebrity poker nights, team Bodog raised in excess of $50,000 for this purpose. She also took part in several other charity events sponsored by several other teams.