Singer Annie Little Headed to Showtime's SHAMELESS

According to The Hollywood Reporter, singer Annie Little has signed on to appear in two upcomign episodes of Showtime's hit series SHAMELESS.

Little will play "Elizabeth, sister to Bianca (Bojana Novakovic), who is a bit of a square and uptight."

The fifth season of SHAMELESS will premiere January 11, 2015.

Recently garnering three Emmy(R) Award nominations in the Comedy category, SHAMELESS averaged 6.1 million weekly viewers in its fourth season. The series is currently in production on its fifth season to air in 2015, and stars Oscar(R) and Emmy nominee William H. Macy and Golden Globe(R) nominee Emmy Rossum, along with Ethan Cutkosky, Emma Greenwell, Shanola Hampton, Steve Howey, Emma Kenney, Cameron Monaghan, Jeremy Allen White, Noel Fisher and special guest star Joan Cusack. Season four found the Gallagher family being tested like never before with patriarch Frank (Macy) battling back from the depths of liver failure and older sister Fiona's (Rossum) downward spiral of her own that led to jail time. Based on the long-running hit UK series, SHAMELESS is executive produced by Emmy Award-winning television and film producer John Wells, Andrew Stearn, Christopher Chulack, Davey Holmes and Nancy Pimental. Wells developed the series for American television. Paul Abbott serves as executive consultant. SHAMELESS is produced by Bonanza Productions, Inc. in association with John Wells Productions and Warner Bros. Television.

Annie Little recently appeared in the Academy award winning ARGO directed by Ben Affleck. Additionally, she plays opposite Ashley Scott (JERICHO) in thriller SUMMONED co-starring Oscar winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. Annie also completed production on 2013 indie film SHIRIN IN LOVE, playing a bombshell blonde, opposite Nazanine Boniadi and co-starring Oscar-nominated actress Amy Madigan.

On the small screen, Little has been cast in a variety of roles including the sexy flight attendant Lorelai in the third season premiere of the Emmy award winning show "Mad Men" and recently guest starred on ABC's "Don't Trust the B- in Apt. 23." She has worked in over 40 national commercials and other hit TV shows including "CSI," "Southland," and "The Mentalist." As a Ford model, she has appeared in campaigns for Estee Lauder, Nicole Miller, Murad and Levi's.

Little recently garnered national attention when she, along with collaborators Angela Kohler and Ithyle Griffiths, won an Amazon Kindle video contest that led to her starring in a series of stop-motion TV commercials for Kindle. Her winning entry, which they shot in a single seven-hour day, featured the original song "Fly Me Away" that she co-wrote and recorded specifically for the spot. Since then, she and her husband Marcus Ashley, known as the songwriting duo, Little & Ashley, have licensed four songs, "Fly Me Away," "Stole My Heart," "Come On Let's Go," and "Winter Night," to Amazon.com for use in their stop-motion TV commercial series for the Kindle. "Stole My Heart" went on to become Amazon's #1 free MP3 download of 2010.

Raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, Little attended the University of Utah, where she was on scholarship for vocal performance. At age 20, while still in school, she was discovered by a San Francisco based modeling agency and went on to work and live in Milan, Tokyo and Sydney before finally making her home base in Los Angeles where she and Marcus live with their new daughter, Lake Ashley, born on New Years day 2013.

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