Bio: Shantel Yvonne VanSanten is an American model and actress, born July 25, 1985. As a model, she has been featured in the magazines Teen Vogue and Seventeen. VanSanten was born in Luverne, Minnesota. She is of Dutch and one quarter Norwegian descent. VanSanten was raised in Spring, Texas where she attended Incarnate Word Academy (an all-girls college prep school) in Houston and Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. VanSanten also started her career as a model at the age of fifteen for the Page Parkes Management.
Tivia: VanSanten is a Dutch name. Her ancestry is 75% Dutch and 25% Norwegian.Was in the delivery room when One Tree Hill (2003) costar Bethany Joy Lenz gave birth to daughter, Maria.As a model, she has been featured in magazines like Teen Vogue and Seventeen.Among the sports Shantel is skilled at are volleyball, knee-and-wakeboarding, track and field, water-, slalom-, and jet-skiing, Frisbee, flag football, softball, badminton, sprinting, and running.She plays the older sister of Bethany Joy Lenz's character Haley James Scott in One Tree Hill (2003) despite being four years younger than Lenz in real life.Close friends with One Tree Hill (2003) costars Robert Buckley and Bethany Joy Lenz.Born on the exact same date as former One Tree Hill co-star James Lafferty.Filming season 8 of One Tree Hill (2003) in Wilmington, NC. (July 2010)