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“American Pie” star Shannon Elizabeth She took her lifelong love for animals internationally, and in the process she found her purpose and her “soulmate.”
“I started charity in Los Angeles in 2001 as a dog rescue called the Animal Avengers. Elizabeth told Fox News Digital.
Eventually, he became the Shannon Elizabeth Foundation, which was founded after Starr first moved to New York in 2014, and began to learn about the world of rhino poaching and ivory trade and conservation. Along the way, she met people involved in her work. Many of them were from South Africa.
“And there was something that clicked inside me. It was actually something I saw on Instagram. It just turned the switch inside me, and this is what I need to do. These animals can become extinct in our lives and I feel this is the next generation of my charity.
Shannon Elizabeth moved to Cape Town, South Africa almost a decade ago to pursue her passion for wildlife conservation and launched her charity, Shannon Elizabeth Foundation. (Christopher Pork/Variety by Getty Images)
The “American Pie” actress has stepped away from Hollywood fame for a new life in South Africa
She traveled herself and said, “I wanted to get closer to the problem. I want to be there. And I want to pack my bags a bit and move in. And I felt very fascinated by what I was going to do with the charity and I came here because I had an overview of people who had an overview of people who were in favour of Africa, and people who had an overview of people who were in favour of Africa. I was meeting people who lived here. I seem to be listening.
The Texas-born star said she loves to live “absolutely” South Africa However, there were some adjustments to be made.
“One thing I noticed was that you don’t have everything here at your fingertips. There’s no active Amazon here where you can order what you want.
“I became like MacGyver for things and I knew I could use it for something else, so it became all the little code I kept hugging,” she added with a laugh. “But I found it amazing because people really helped me. They really accepted me.”
Elizabeth loves her new South African home, but she revealed that she has adjustments that don’t have “everything at your fingertips.” (Canter Fitzgerald’s Larsniki/Getty Images)
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The move also introduced Elizabeth to her now husband, Simon Bolchart. Conservation activists From Cape Town.
“I met him on my first trip, passing a friend. And once I moved here, mutual friends gathered us for lunch and started chatting. He grew up in protection. He can speak Afrikaans. This is one of the languages here.
“I felt it was amazing because people really helped me. They really embraced me.”
Elizabeth and Bolchart work together from home to save the foundation’s expenses and deal with the business side of philanthropy.
“It’s challenging, but being able to do it with someone who has the same dreams and the same goals and aspirations as the person you love is really, really rewarding,” she said. “That’s why we felt so lucky to find him from each other’s mirror images. We want the same thing, we are very aligned with everything we love in this universe, and I feel really lucky to find him.
Elizabeth called her husband and fellow conservation activist Simon Bolchart and her “soulmate.” (Toyota’s Gregg Deguire/Getty Images)
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Elizabeth is happy to process the details of her fundraising and charity, but she says, “We’re out of a happy place.” [the] Field. ”
“When we go to the sanctuary, we have a sanctuary that is about an hour’s flight from here. And when we are there, we are camping, we are sleeping in our tents, we are together [the] The sunrise, and we are helping out the rangers. We have a blind black rhinoceros to take care of. We’re with him. It’s a truly happy place. ”
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Although Elizabeth is focused on her foundation, she is still managing her Hollywood career, booking acting jobs regularly, and starting to work on the director’s efforts.
She won the breakout role in 1999 “American Pie” Still, I remember her excitement and the injuries that came with it.
“American Pie” was a breakout role for many of her co-stars, such as Elizabeth and Jason Biggs. (Getty Images)
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“I was so grateful that you booked the job. I remember calling and booking it. I was driving in the car and I was right outside the house. I don’t know why I didn’t pull into the garage. My boyfriend, and I stepped into the hole. And I got home.
“It really opened all the doors for me, and I don’t even know I’m doing the work I’m doing here now without the ‘American Pie’. ”
Elizabeth says, “American Pie,” “I really opened all the doors for me.” (Universal Photography/Courtesy Everett Collection)
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Elizabeth also thanked the fans she met through her conventions and appearances, and saw the impact she has had through on-screen work.
“We want the same thing, we love in the world and are very consistent with everything we love in this universe. …He is definitely my soulmate.”
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“I don’t think I realized when I was doing a film that they had an impact on anyone,” she said. “And now, I think there are fans who make me cry because they get so emotional, and I don’t realize that the work I do means so much to people, so I am so grateful to them.
“I feel really fortunate because I have had that kind of impact on those people, or growing up, or adolescence.[s]. ”
Elizabeth has found a real connection with convention fans. (Shirlaine Forrest/WireMage)
Elizabeth’s approach to her Acting career Shifting for her charity, she wants to “really focus on projects that will help the planet first.”
“And sometimes, to be honest, it’s a way of funding yourself. You don’t receive money from charities, so you can maintain your career and platform and do work that you really think is important.
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The 51-year-old uses her Hollywood knowledge for her foundations and films documentaries about men, men Black rhinoceros Special care is required. Not only is he a very endangered species, but he is also blind and unable to forage himself.
“If you can do something in your life, I think that’s your job and that’s how you survive, but it’s your mission and what you love. And if you can find a way to do both together, you win in life and everyone wants to combine it.
