Shaun Rylee

Shaun Rylee is an award-winning screenwriter, actress and filmmaker. She attended university and earned a degree in Film, while also acting in several plays and horror films. She has worked professionally in several states, first behind the scenes in Los Angeles, CA in casting and television infomercials, then Colorado, where she filmed The Lone Ranger. She earned a role in a Japanese horror film and flew to complete it on location. In 2012, she also worked for the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC and the Austin Film Festival in 2019. Shaun Rylee made her way back to Los Angeles and scored her first professional television role on AMC's Mad Men on her first day back in Hollywood. The recognition from this role paved the way toward being scouted for several period-centric projects, including the first season of Masters of Sex on Showtime, the mini-series Mob City on TNT, and the films Jersey Boys and Love and Mercy. Shaun Rylee has been featured on such shows as Community, Scandal, Hello Ladies, Parks and Recreation, Californication and HBO's Newsroom, as well as a handful of hip-hop music videos. She filmed the award-winning short, Laboratory Conditions, as a body double and stand-in for Marissa Tomei, the festival-winning feature Damn Foreigners, and scientific thriller Transcendence, which was her third film that starred Johnny Depp. She finished graduate school for Child Psychology and has been working on multiple screenplays and filming projects as an independent filmmaker. She wrote and will costar in the upcoming feature films she wrote, 'better. ' and 'Vol et Nocturne.