Shanel Cheatham
Shanel Cheatham was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City. She started her ballet training at the age of six, with a local dance studio which lead her to audition and start studying at a public school for dance in the fifth grade. She later decided to pursue acting with her twin sister Janel Cheatham when they were thirteen. In 2017, Shanel graduated as an honor roll student from her dance school, competed in a local beauty pageant where she placed 1st runner up, and filmed her first starring role in the independent film American Wisper (2020).