Colleen Shannon

Colleen Shannon has been popping up all over the place these day’s, starring in major motion pictures, television, magazine covers, major print modeling campaigns, and DJing the biggest superclubs, venues, and events all over the world.

On the musical side of things, there is a lot going on. Having become known as “The World’s Sexiest DJ”, Colleen has been receiving features in some of the music industries top magazines, including “XXL”, and “Music Connection” just to name a few. She has headlined with Sting in Atlantic City, Snoop Dogg in Vegas, and will be headlining with Fat Joe in Trinidad and Lloyd Banks in Barbados in late June, among others, and has shared the stage and screen with some of the biggest DJ’s in the industry including: The Crystal Method, Paul Oakenfold, Donald Glaude, Funk Master Flex, Jazzy Jeff, Beej, Bad Boy Bill, and many, many others. Colleen is currently working on the title track to two motion pictures with her producing partner “Poet Name Life” (Black Eyed Peas, Fergie’s solo album, Mya, David Foster), and is in the middle of negotiating her first major record deal with one of the industries biggest labels. Colleen recently presented an award along with the Crystal Method, world famous producers Don Was (Rolling Stones), and JJP (No Doubt) at the DTS Surround Sound Awards, honoring such artists as Beck, BT, Elton John, and Herbie Hancock. You’ll be able to see her spin at DJ dates throughout the new Year that include Japan, Australia, Germany, Spain, Puerto Rico, Europe, Switzerland, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, as well as the US.

In addition to prominent roles in the motion pictures “Sci-Fighter” and “Miss Castaway”, Colleen is the female lead in the upcoming theatrical release “The Passing”, which also stars Paul Gleason (Van Wilder, Not Another Teen Movie, Die Hard). All have been completed and are scheduled for a late 2005 release. Colleen has also just completed her role as a DJ in the new Shannyn Sossamon (40 Days and 40 Nights, Rules Of Attraction, The Order, A Knights Tale), Gary Busey, Michael Madsen motion picture “Chasing Ghosts”. Her next role will be in the Film “The Gene Generation”, being produced by Dean Devlin (Independence Day, The Patriot), and Kim Winther (The Day After Tomorrow, Daredevil, We Were Soldiers, Freddy got Fingered), and directed by two time New York Film Festival winner Pearry Teo.

In the way of television, Colleen has wrapped shooting her role in superproducer Barry Josephson’s (“Like Mike”, Tom Hank’s “The Lady Killers”, Robert De Niro’s new film “Hide and Seek”, Wild Wild West) new TV project “FCR”. Colleen has also been hosting several shows such as the Showtime Network’s new series “VIP Access”, and “The Red Carpet”, interviewing some of the biggest stars in the world, and will be hosting several episodes of “Wild On E!”, and the new HDTV series “Wild Style” in the coming months. Colleen was the focus of several entire episodes of the new Spike TV series “The Club”. This show goes behind the scenes of club life. Colleen was the focus of the “DJ episode” in which the cameras followed her from the moment in which she got off the plane in the morning, until she performed at the Vegas superclub “ICE” that night. During the episode, 15 of the worlds best DJ’s were flown in to participate in a DJ battle/contest. Colleen judged the contest for world famous producer/DJ Paul Oakenfold and chose the three finalist. Colleen then returned to the show to introduce the finalists to Paul Oakenfold, and she and Paul judged the finals together. The cameras followed Colleen and Paul as they talked business deals, hung out at the club and judged the finals. The winner of the contest opened up for Paul and Sandra Collins at the club in a later episode. She can also be seen as the lead in several TV commercial campaigns ranging from AT&T to Bacardi, and music videos from George Michaels to Smashmouth.

There is big modeling news as well. Colleen has just landed the entire print modeling campaign for “Punkture”, a new hip/edgy clothing line being helmed by the daughter of the founder of Guess Jeans. She and world renowned recording artist/producer “Tricky” will be the new clothing lines official models. She has also just landed the print campaign for the “Material Junky” clothing line. The three models for this campaign will be Paris Hilton, Jamie Pressly, and Colleen. She can also be seen on the cover of several upcoming magazines including “SuperStreet” (making history as the first female ever to grace the magazine’s cover), and “Swimsuit Illustrated”, just to name a few.