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Shannon Ashley "Shay" Mitchell and 50 fun facts about her life.
1. Shay Mitchell and Michaela Blaney run amoreandvita.com. The blog focuses on cooking, beauty and travel.
2. Shay favorite country is Italy.
3. Shay likes fashion and traveling.
4. Shay Mitchell and Michaela Blaney wrote a debut novel titled Bliss. It's a novel about love, friendship, and following your bliss.
5. If she could she would like to try color her hair with fire engine red.
6. Her favorite quote is "The world is your oyster."
7. Her favorite show is Scandal and Chef's table.
8. She likes sweets only after something savory.
9. On her bucket list is air ballooning Africa.
10. Her idea of a perfect world is the one without world hunger, without diseases, without wars, and celebrating everybody's uniqueness.
11. If she would have to lose one of 5 senses she would choose scent.
12. She runs a personal Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/ShayMitchellOfficial.
13. She is best known for her role as Emily Fields in the ABC Family series Pretty Little Liars.
14. She has Spanish lineage from both sides of her family.
15. Her parents work in finance.
16. She has one younger brother, Sean.
17. She is a second cousin of Lea Salonga, singer and Tony Award-winning theater actress well known for originating the lead role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon.
18. Even as a young child, Mitchell was interested in performing arts, declaring to her parents that she would pursue such a career.
19. Mitchell began dance lessons at the age of five, and she and several of her classmates toured the city to compete with a variety of other dance schools.
20. At the age of 10, Mitchell's family moved to West Vancouver, British Columbia. Within a year of their arrival, an international modeling agency held an open casting call for teen and pre-teen girls who were vying for representation. Mitchell was one of the girls selected.
21. By her late teens, Mitchell had successfully modeled for a variety of companies in cities as varied as Bangkok, Hong Kong and Barcelona, but she later returned to Toronto to study acting.
22. After signing with her first theatrical agency, Mitchell appeared in the Canadian teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation.
23. She appeared in the music video for "Hold My Hand" by Jamaican rapper Sean Paul.
24. Mitchell modeled for American Eagle Outfitters.
25. In 2010, Mitchell appeared in a four-episode arc on the Disney XD series Aaron Stone as cheerleader Irina Webber.
26. Her brother a drummer in the indie band Redrick Sultan.
27. In January 2011, Mitchell signed a contract with Procter & Gamble to be the spokesperson for the Pantene Nature Fusion shampoo line.
28. Mitchell supported Somaly Mam Foundation, a non-profit organization that fought sex trafficking.
29. To prepare for future acting roles, Mitchell has been learning Spanish.
30. Her birth name is Shannon Ashley Mitchell.
31. Mitchells' nicknames are Shay Buttah, Shay Mitch.
32. Her favorite movies include Little Mermaid , Vicki Christina Barcelona and Under the Tuscan Sun.
33. She is very close friends with her co-stars Ashley Benson and Lindsey Shaw from Pretty Little Liars.
34. Mitchell to her fans as "Mitchies".
35. She likes to eat pizza.
36. She hates dieting.
37. The craziest thing she's done getting over love was skydiving.
38. She is half-Filipino.
39. Her father is Irish/Scottish.
40. Her family is close and has a lot of get-gotethers.
41. She considers herself to be quite a sweet person.
42. She hopes to get mature roles and work on movies in her future plans.
43. Began her modeling career at 15, which allowed her to travel to international locales and spend time in Asia after high school.
44. She was born April 10, 1987 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
45. Mitchell is still single.
46. Her favorite singer is Beyonce.
47. Her celebrity crush is Ryan Gosling.
48. Mitchell is still single.
49. Her favorite actress is Rachel Mcadams & Natalie Portman.
50. Shay's favorite color is Pink.
