Shayne J. Cullen was born September 2nd to Patrick Cullen, an iron worker and Patricia Daniel. He is of Irish and Native American decent. He started doing theatre at Dixie State University, in St.George, Utah in 1993. It was here he acted in the theatre productions, "Our Town", "Oklahoma", and "Mr.Roberts" . He also acted in the St. George Musical theatre in the productions, "The Curious Savage" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner". This led him to love acting, he has acted in the films " Saints and Soldiers'" and "Wind River" and a number of short films. His directing debut started with a short film called "The Invitation". He has also dabbed with directing some commercials. Shayne was married to Hollee Statks from 1998 to 2017, they have four children together.