Shanna Toft grew up in the Austin, Texas area and participated in theater, choir, and dance all through school. She added modeling in her early college years and her modeling debut was as a live Barbie for Mattel. Though she acted for years in school, her professional acting took the course of working as as an extra/background/stand-in in Dallas before gaining her first television role in the UK as the wife of a bank robber in a documentary reconstruction.Shanna continues to work in theater, commercials, music videos, television, and film as well as modeling.