# Shanley Caswell

Shanley Caswell (born December 3, 1991) is an American actress. She has guest starred in television series such as CSI: NY, Bones, iCarly and The Middle. She is best known for her starring roles in Detention (2011) as Riley Jones and as Andrea Perron in The Conjuring (2013). She recurred as Laurel Pride on NCIS: New Orleans from 2014 to 2021, spanning the series' seven seasons.

## Life and career

Shanley Caswell was born and raised in Sarasota, Florida. Shanley began acting in local theater at the age of eight. While in high school, she became involved with "Teen Source", a theater troupe whose focus is to educate the teenage community on social issues. She moved to Los Angeles to further her career in 2007, where she landed many guest-starring roles. Her first work was modelling at age 15. She also studied cultural anthropology at UCLA.
She made her feature film debut in Mending Fences, a television film for the Hallmark Channel and made her first major film role as one of the leads in the horror film Detention, with her starring as Riley Jones. She appeared in horror film The Conjuring, in the supporting role Andrea Perron, her second feature film, and starred as the lead role in the fairy tale update Snow White: A Deadly Summer.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2009 | Little Victories | Katherine | Short film |
| 2011 | Detention | Riley Jones | |
| 2012 | Snow White: A Deadly Summer | Snow White | Direct to video |
| 2012 | Adrift | Mo | Short film |
| 2013 | Come Find Me | Jenny Sugar | Short film |
| 2013 | The Conjuring | Andrea Perron | |
| 2013 | Feels So Good | Brittany | |
| 2017 | Swiped | Erin | Short film |
| 2017 | Urban Myth: Nest | Karla | Short film |
| 2018 | Haunting on Fraternity Row | Claire | Direct to video |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2008 | Zoey 101 | Audrey | Episode: "Coffee Cart Ban" |
| 2009 | Mending Fences | Kamilla Faraday | Television film |
| 2010 | iCarly | Tara | Episode: "iWas a Pageant Girl" |
| 2010 | Bones | Dede | Episode: "The Death of the Queen Bee" |
| 2010 | The Mentalist | Nadine Russo | Episode: "Red Sky At Night" |
| 2011 | The Middle | Samantha | 2 episodes |
| 2011 | CSI: NY | Rachel Weber | Episode: "Crushed" |
| 2012 | Punk'd | Herself | Episode: "Lucy Hale" |
| 2013 | Vegas | Patricia | Episode: "Little Fish" |
| 2014–2021 | NCIS: New Orleans | Laurel Pride | Recurring role, 14 episodes |
| 2014 | Red Zone | Laney Weller | Television film |
| 2014 | High School Possession | Olivia Marks | Television film |
| 2015 | The Night Shift | Rachel Lawson | Episode: "Sunrise, Sunset" |
| 2015 | Scorpion | Dorie | Episode: "The Old College Try" |
| 2017 | Perfect Citizen | Vivian | Television film |
| 2018 | S.W.A.T. | Sarah | Episode: "The Tiffany Experience" |
| 2019 | The Resident | Nora Mitchell | Episode: "Stupid Things in the Name of Sex" |
| 2019 | E! True Hollywood Story | Herself | Episode: "Horror Movies: Cursed or Coincidence?" |
| 2020 | Kappa Kappa Die | Nina | CW Seed Halloween special |
| 2021–2023 | Power Book III: Raising Kanan | Shannon Burke | Main cast (seasons 1–2) Guest (season 3) |
| 2024 | Magnum P.I. | Amelia Reese | Episode: "The Big Squeeze" |