Biografie

VanSanten is a Dutch name. Her ancestry is 75% Dutch and 25% Norwegian.

As a model, she has been featured in magazines like Teen Vogue and Seventeen.

Was in the delivery room when One Tree Hill (2003) costar Bethany Joy Lenz gave birth to daughter, Maria.

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.

I'm, like, super-clumsy and weird and funny and dorky.

The minute you feel secure about yourself and own the fact your dreams are honest true, other things fix themselves.

My style is dependent on my moods, so I feel like it's all over the place.

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew up not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

Being on a television show and having so many fans is something that I've never experienced before, and it's really neat when they come up to you and are like, 'That storyline is amazing and really spoke to me in my life,' and it's really cool. I really enjoy it.