Shayna Benardo

Shayna Benardo is an Atlanta-based actor raised on the outskirts of Jupiter, Florida by two concert caterers hailing from Brooklyn and the Bronx. After kicking off her career in a Five Below commercial in Miami, FL, she moved to Orlando. She studied the Meisner technique alongside esteemed mentors while earning her degree in Film and Mass Culture and Collective Behavior at the University of Central Florida. Throughout her time there, she found success working on film, commercial, and TV projects such as Lifetime thriller Sorority Secrets, and Discovery's Dead Silent. In between shoots and school, Shayna worked at a phone call captioning center for the deaf. There, she saved up her paychecks to move to Atlanta, GA where she trains consistently and maintains a unique skill set ranging from piloting flight simulators to kickboxing.