Shae Kristensen

Shae is a young actor who feels herself to be a veteran at the age of 24. She has yet to have her break and despite having the talent, looks, drive and personality that has seen her voted Most Likely she has been forever Called Back, Last Culled, Almost If-Only-ed and Studying Under.

She has only known herself to be filled with the conviction that she will make it big and has taken every course, seminar, workshop and short film that would advance that conviction from opinion to fact. For years that faith has been unshakeable.

Until now.

She has recently returned from a soul destroying sojourn in L.A. that left her scarred and filled with doubt. She now carries the belief that she has a shelf life of beauty and appeal, a setting sun on her career that if she doesn’t crack it in these last dying gleams of her youth she will be stacking shelves at Aldi.

Shae is a technically accomplished actor who is now cut off from the font of her talent and further uses her considerably developed acting skills to avoid having to confront her problem.

Physically, she is conventionally attractive in a conventional Hollywood sense – easily accessible and quick appeal. She sings, speaks foreign languages, has a sharp, quick and enquiring mind. She has not forgotten her western Sydney Aussie roots. She’s not scared of a fight but guilty of dumbing down her intelligence to avoid threatening men and alienating women.

Shae’s arc is her gradual realisation that her compulsive obsessing about her ‘shelf life’ is an escape hatch that allows her to avoid the true emotion that an honest performance would have her confront. Kurt Michaels intuitively recognizes this in her straight away. Part of her knows that joining his insane indy movie project will lead her down the path of liberation - and it’s going to be a rough ride.