page_title: Shannyn Sossamon
section_title: 2003–05: Hiatus
hierarchical_section_title: Shannyn Sossamon / Career / 2003–05: Hiatus
caption_attribution_description: Entrevista a Goran Dukic y Shannyn Sossamon, por Wristcutters, a Love Story Park City, Utah, EEUU Foto: Toni Verd
context_page_description: Shannon Marie Kahololani "Shannyn" Sossamon, is an American actress, director, and musician. She has appeared in the films A Knight's Tale, 40 Days and 40 Nights, The Rules of Attraction, The Order, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Wristcutters: A Love Story, Road to Nowhere, The End of Love, and Sinister 2.
  As a musician, she provided vocals and drums to Warpaint from 2004 to 2008. She abruptly left the group after recording their first EP. Sossamon's sole recording with the band is the 2009 EP Exquisite Corpse.
  In 2009, Sossamon began directing and producing shorts and music videos through her small production company, the Maudegone Theater. In 2019 she created a video channel called THE MAUDE ROOM, a variety show in which she serves as writer, director, and performer.
context_section_description: Sossamon and Heath Ledger starred together again in Brian Helgeland's supernatural thriller The Order. The film revolved around the investigation of the suspicious death of an excommunicated priest and the discovery of a Sin Eater headquartered in Rome. It was released in late 2003, to extremely poor reviews; Critical reception for Sossamon was average with 7M Pictures finding the movie "well acted" by the leads but eFilmCritic.com remarking that she, "so charming in both "A Knight's Tale and 40 Days and 40 Nights, is given very little to do besides utilize her 'tortured soul with dark eye makeup' schtick". The movie failed at the box office, opening at number six at the charts; it finished its theatrical run with US$11 million on a budget of US$35 million.
  After Sossamon filmed The Order, she became pregnant and took a hiatus from working on film productions; "It was almost like she was out on a lark, and she found herself in this big circumstance that she hadn't planned on, which I think made it easier for her to go off and have a baby and stop working", director Helgerland said on the actress' motherhood and subsequent acting break. She has recalled seeing her acting career in a "total stop" after giving birth, but nevertheless described her absence on screen as a "blessing in disguise for many reasons". Her only acting appearance of 2004 was a guest-starring role on the NBC series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, in the episode “Doubt”.
  Her next vehicle was the horror thriller Devour, in which she played Marisol, one of several friends who become increasingly addicted to a video game that has an evil agenda. A B movie, it did not receive a theatrical release and instead, went directly-to-DVD in 2005. Critical reception towards the picture was unanimously negative, but a few reviewers showed approval of the cast members' performances, with DVD Talk noting that Sossamon, alongside co-star Dominique Swain, "do the best they can with the material they're given, but end up as not much more than eye-candy stuck in a sea of aimless gore and maddeningly vague plot droppings". At the time, she made a cameo appearance in the black action comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005).
  She played Josie in the dramedy Undiscovered, which followed a group of aspiring entertainers who intend to establish their careers in Los Angeles. Distributed for a limited release to certain parts of the United States only, the movie premiered on August 26, 2005, to lackluster sales and critical failure. Chasing Ghosts, a mystery thriller starring Sossamon, was released straight-to-video in late 2005. As Undiscovered, this movie received negative reviews and was a box office bomb, failing to recoup its budget.
caption: Sossamon with Wristcutters director Goran Dukić at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
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