Shanley Caswell
Shanley Caswell is an actor, born 1991.
Six screen credits are listed here, and Wikipedia adds a run of network guest spots on CSI: NY, Bones, iCarly and The Middle that are not among them. It is a small page, and the honest version is that two roles carry it.
The first is Riley Jones in Detention, a teen horror comedy that moves faster than its audience and asks its lead to hold a straight face while the film changes genre around her. The second is Andrea Perron in The Conjuring, which put her in one of the biggest horror franchises of the decade and, as tends to happen with ensemble haunted-house casts, did not obviously convert into leading roles afterwards.
The steadiest work was television. She recurred as Laurel Pride on NCIS: New Orleans from 2014 to 2021, across all seven seasons of the series, which is a long time to keep a recurring character alive. Beyond that the page holds Rachel Lawson on The Night Shift, Shannon Burke on Power Book III: Raising Kanan and a return to low-budget horror with Haunting on Fraternity Row.
Movies (3)
TV (3)
Where to start with Shanley Caswell
The Conjuring is the one to see first, simply because it is the best-made film she is in and the part is a real one rather than a scream cue. Follow it with Detention, which is the more interesting performance and by far the odder film: relentless, tonally unstable, and reliant on a lead who can play sincerity at that speed. NCIS: New Orleans is where the actual working career is, seven years of a recurring role, though procedural television rewards patience rather than a single episode. The Night Shift and Power Book III: Raising Kanan are supporting turns for people already watching those shows. Haunting on Fraternity Row is for horror completists only, and I would not start there.