Shannon Elizabeth (born September 7, 1973) is an American actress, poker player, and former fashion model. Elizabeth came to prominence in the 1999 comedy film American Pie. Elizabeth appeared in several films, including the notorious Jack Frost and Dish Dogs, before being cast in 1999’s American Pie, which was a major box office success and garnered her fame for the ‘bedroom scene’ in which she appeared nude. Elizabeth subsequently appeared in several major Hollywood films, including Scary Movie (2000) and Tomcats. In August 1999, she posed for a nude pictorial in Playboy magazine. In 2000 and 2003, she was featured in Maxim magazine.

Elizabeth was in a relationship with actor Joseph D. Reitman for ten years, including three years of marriage. The couple separated in March 2005,^[4] and Elizabeth filed for divorce in late June 2005.

Elizabeth, who describes poker as her “second career” has been called “one of the leading celebrity poker players.” She visits Las Vegas up to three times each month to participate in poker games with the top players of the United States. Elizabeth played in the Main Event of the 2005 World Series of Poker and won a special tournament celebrating the opening of a new poker room at Caesars Palace hotel in January 2006, beating out 83 celebrities and poker professionals to win $55,000. She has also cashed four times in the World Series of Poker in 2006 and 2007, but again busted out of the Main Event early. In 2007, she advanced to the semi-finals of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship in a field consisting of the top poker professionals before losing to eventual champion Paul Wasicka. Among the four opponents she defeated were three World Series of Poker multiple bracelet winners: Jeff Madsen, Barry Greenstein, and Humberto Brenes.  Shannon is sponsored by the online website Full Tilt Poker.

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