Shawnee Smith (born July 3, 1969) is an American actress. She is known for playing Linda in the CBS sitcom
Becker and Amanda Young in the
Saw franchise. She was part of the country rock band Smith & Pyle. She hosted season one of the VH1 acting competition
Scream Queens. Smith began her acting career at a young age, making her feature film debut at age 11 in John Huston's
Annie, playing one of the orphans. A few years later, she made her stage debut in To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday and won a Drama-League Critics Award. In the late 1980s, she was cast in smaller roles before getting her first starring role in the remake of
The Blob (1988) and a supporting role in the film
Who's Harry Crumb? (1989). In the 1990s she made guest appearances on
Murder, She Wrote ()