In part one of a three-part series, One Tree Hill newcomer Shantel VanSanten (Quinn James) visits the One Tree Hill Podcast for an exclusive interview.

Play or download the interview at One Tree Hill Podcast!

I just added 154 photos from yesterday’s The Final Destination World Premiere, including 23 high quality photos! Shantel looked absolutely gorgeous! Click below to check them all out.

Here are two new interviews with Shantel, from IESB.net and teenhollywood.com respectively.

With The Final Destination, the fourth film in the popular franchise, horror fans will get an especially vivid thrill ride, as death is now in 3-D.

On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O’Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. Nick then panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori (Shantel VanSanten), and their friends, Janet (Haley Webb) and Hunt (Nick Zano), to leave mere seconds before his frightening vision becomes a terrible reality.

Thinking they’ve cheated death, the group believes they’ve been given a second chance, until Nick’s premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die, one by one. Nick soon realizes that he must figure out how to escape death before it’s too late.

At the film’s press day, Bobby Campo and Shantel VanSanten told IESB what it’s like to be faced with death, while making a movie. read more at the source

You’ve probably lived this. You and your date go out with another couple and head for some fun attraction like an amusement park or a race. It’s exciting and an adrenalin rush. But, what if something went terribly wrong? What if the roller coaster went off the tracks or the race cars jumped the protective fence? These are the kinds of questions that power the domino-effect Final Destination films to big box office. Now, you can see the latest installment in 3-D!

We sat down with two “couples” from the film to find out their scariest moments while filming, what they would do if death were stalking them, what it was like working in 3-D, doing some crazy stunts and actually having fun midst the crazy kills and gore. Good times!

For our Beverly Hills interview, the dark-haired actresses were looking very Hollywood glam and the guys were very crisply stylish. Picture cute Bobby Campo in slacks and blue dress shirt with white collar and his girl in the film Shantel VanSanten in a beige lace dress topped with cropped black leather jacket. Hot Nick Zano wore black pants and a dark dress jacket over a dark gray tee. His counterpart Haley Webb matched his look in a dark silver dress. Let’s talk horror and what’s next for these hot young actors…. read the rest at the source

Here’s Shantel along with fellow actress Kayla Ewell in a commercial for Clean & Clear!

Many thanks to Robert Buckley Online and Tyler who sent in some gorgeous new photos! Click below to check them out.

Here’s a new video interview with Shantel and her co-stars about The Final Destination, thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com.

Beautiful ex-model Shantel VanSanten began her acting career with a series of TV movie roles in 2005’s “Three Wise Guys”, 2006’s “Savage Spirit”, and 2007’s “Spellbound”.

After a few big-screen movie roles in “In My Pocket” and “The Open Door”, VanSantel was cast in a starring role in the latest member of the Destination franchise “The Final Destination”.

The actress also has a recurring role in the still popular TV series “One Tree Hill”. Paul Fischer caught up with her in this exclusive interview.

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“I’m like super-clumsy and weird and funny and dorky,” says the outstandingly named Shantel VanSanten. While she attended an all-girls Catholic high school, there are no nunneries in this young woman’s future.

She’s starring in Warner Brothers’ “The Final Destination” opening this Friday, and on the CW’s “One Tree Hill” this fall. She was discovered at the mall in a story that is pure Hollywood fable, but in spite of all this early success, Shantel emanates a genuine kindness and humility that immediately wins you over. Looks like all those Hail Marys didn’t go to waste.

Chosen as this week’s Girl2Watch, Shantel will be featured in a series or articles, fun facts and social media tweets through this week for subscribers of Girl2Watch.com.

In this BackStage “Actor2Watch” exclusive, Shantel shares her thoughts on acting and getting roles.

Back Stage: What was your first break as an actor?

Shantel VanSanten: My first break was a movie on the USA Network around Christmas time called “Three Wiseguys” and I had like 6 lines in it.

BS: How did you get your SAG card?

SVS: Geez what did I do? I did a Clean & Clear commercial. I did a series of them. I used to be the Clean & Clear girl!

BS: How did you make the transition from model to actress?

SVS: I signed with the Page Parks Modeling Agency, and within like a month I had booked my first job, and I was working just doing like catalog stuff. And it’s kind of what opened the door for me into the acting world too because they were so supportive about it. They were the ones who put me in acting classes and I was like, “I don’t know. I’ve always done theater, but I don’t know how I feel about acting.” And they really pushed for me.

This is completely what my passion is, but I never understood I could make it into a career. They’re the people that opened up a lot of the doors and I guess who founded me. I’m really grateful for them because if I hadn’t have been for like their influence and pushing me and opening doors and showing me opportunities, I don’t know if I’d be here.

BS: Is there anything that you wish you could tell someone who is just starting out in acting?

SVS: Just believe in yourself, honestly. Because that’s all that it takes. If you believe in yourself somebody will find you that believes in you just as much, if not more.

Some new pictures of Shantel at the Nylon Magazine Fall TV and Fashion Issue Party have been added to the gallery!

Shantel will be featured in Complex Magazine’s August/September issue! Check out the pictures and interview below.

If you’re looking for a chick to hang out with your boys and laugh at all your dick jokes, Shantel VanSanten may be your dream woman. The star of August’s The Final Destination and this fall’s girl-on-girl heavy You and I (opposite Mischa Barton) is the self-described “goofiest person ever” and doesn’t shy away from a little locker room talk. Which is great for all of us. But don’t get it twisted—when the 24-year-old Minnesota native and former swimsuit model says she’s “one of the guys,” she’s lying. You’ll know what we mean when you see her in 3-D.

What’s the weirdest thing about being in a 3-D flick?
Shantel VanSanten: The way that they shoot it, they have two cameras with the right eye and one with the left and they converge and it comes out in one image. It’s actually over a million dollars for each camera. That part of it was really cool, but the sex scene I had was a little bit weird.

Yeah, most of the sex we have is a little bit weird too. What’s the 3-D version like?
Shantel VanSanten: I just wanted to know what it looks like. I think my ass in 3-D would be really interesting. [Laughs.] I did a movie in Russia with Mischa Barton, and that had a love scene in it too.

Ah, yes, the scene with Mischa. We’re looking forward to that one.
Shantel VanSanten: We spent about five months shooting, and one day they were like, “OK, now we’re gonna shoot a sex scene in a rotating bed!” It was more of a scene about love than softcore porn. Love is love in my mind; we’ve all experimented, and it’s no big deal.

Mischa’s a little more experienced with that, though—she kissed Olivia Wilde on The O.C. Did you feel any pressure to be a better kisser?
Shantel VanSanten: No, I know I am, it’s all good. [Laughs.] Just kidding! They actually made fun of Mischa ’cause she’s had a lot of lesbian scenes. They said she’d better be good—it was her second one, and only my first.

So when you’re not kissing girls, what type of dudes do you like?
Shantel VanSanten: I like people who are spontaneous and super goofy because I’m probably the goofiest person ever, like a 4-year-old in a 24-year-old girl’s body. I’m definitely immature. Guys are always telling me I’m like a guy because we’re always talking about sex or penises.

If the guys you hang out with are always talking about penises, then my competition isn’t as stiff as I thought. Wait, I mean…