About Shayla
Shayla Beesley was born March 30th 1988 in Culver City, CA, to Tegan Ollie and Graham Beesley. Shortly after, her parents divorced, and she and her mother moved to the small, Navy based town of Oak Harbor, WA. She is the eldest of one brother and two sisters.
Her father, who would come to visit from England, took it upon himself to make sure she was taught to ride horseback English and Western, and study Karate.
Growing up, she had a taste for the arts at an early age. Consistently drawing and acting out her favorite characters from movies, she had a painting published in the local paper at age 6. At age 7, she won "The Young Authors Award", at age 12 she was awarded 2nd place in "The Veterans of Foreign Wars" essay competition, and by age 14 she was a member of "The National Honor Society". Her mother, who is a classically trained Egyptian bellydancer, taught the skill to her daughter at age 7, and by age 13 she enrolled in Drama at Oak Harbor High School, which she fell in love with instantly.
When she was 16 she became emancipated, and moved a few months later to California to begin her acting career. She landed a few small roles in short films, but it wasn't until she started to attend "The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute" of California that things began to take off. By age 19 she had starred in her first feature film "Sex and the USA" as the artsy shy Audrey, which debuted at the Deauville American Film Festival in France, September 2008. With her natural talent, exceptional beauty, and a work ethic beyond her years, you can be assured that Shayla Beesley is an A-Lister on the rise.
