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born 1984 South Africa
Shannon Esra (née Esrechowitz; born 1 February 1984) is a South African actress and voice-over artist. She is known for playing the lawyer Sandra Stein in the drama series The Queen and The River and Samantha Hugo in the series Lioness.
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Life is dynamic and complex, and it’s also simple. We’re all more alike than we think we are.
It’s also a challenge to push myself into spaces I may not be entirely comfortable with to grow, to transform.
It’s okay if healing feels hard – it’s not a straight line.
It has always been the most natural thing in the world to me
It’s okay to laugh at hard things – and we must laugh. Life is filled with light and shade
It’s a beautiful thing to embody someone else’s experience, to forget yourself in the pursuit of relaying someone else’s love, pain, and healing
when you know each word written on that page, when you get so deep into the writing, the story, and the meaning, the familiarity of it allows you to fall into it. It just comes.
Through breath, pace, and being present in the words themselves
Love is love, and we’re on this planet to connect, to find a sense of belonging and purpose, and so much of that is experienced by sharing space and vulnerability
I realised I had a talent for acting when all the grown-ups around me started to pay a little more attention to me and started to encourage me and my love for it. I just knew I loved playing pretend, as most children do, but it seemed to grow and deepen in me the older I became
I am constantly creating, I write, I paint, I also have my own production company and have two television shows I have in development, and hope to get made soon
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