Shay Mitchell

She was born Shannon Mitchell on April 10, 1987 in Toronto, Canada to an Irish-Scott father, and a Filipino mother whose first cousin was Tony Award-winning performer, Lea Salonga. Interested in the arts at a young age, Mitchell began taking dance lessons at the age of five. When the future star was 10, her family moved out to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she attended an open casting call for an international modeling agency and landed …