“American Pie” star Shannon Elizabeth ditched residing in Hollywood for a transfer to South Africa to assist a trigger near her coronary heart.
Elizabeth spoke on the Metal Metropolis Con in Pittsburgh final Saturday, revealing she had moved to the nation eight years in the past to focus on her conservation charity, The Shannon Elizabeth Basis, per Folks Journal.
“We’re building a sanctuary,” she advised the viewers. “We have a blind black rhino we’ve been taking care of, and we’re going to bring in more rhinos as soon as we can do an expansion.”
The 51-year-old stated that after her breakout function in “American Pie,” she “started my charity, which was called Animal Avengers at the time. And it’s been going since then, it’s just morphed over the years into conservation and wildlife from dogs and cats.”
“I started looking at dog and cat rescues in LA because dogs were what I knew,” she advised the “Life Outside Poker” podcast in July 2024, per E! Information. “I realized I want to make my own organization and, over time, I just wanted to help out more animals on a bigger scale. I went on a journey of figuring out what that was and realized there was this hectic poaching crisis going on in other parts of the world.”
Elizabeth based her group, initially known as Animal Avengers, in 2001, increasing its scope from canine and cats to wild animals in Africa, in accordance with the inspiration’s web site.
“In order to be hands-on with her projects and to expand their scope and influence, Shannon moved to Africa in 2016 and now lives in Cape Town,” the web site states.
The Texas-born star has additionally continued her performing profession, showing in movies like “Scary Movie,” “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,” and extra lately, the comedy “Plan B,” and vacation movie “A Home for the Holidays.”
She can also be in pre-production on a documentary titled “Munu-A Rhino Love Story,” about titular Munu, a male black rhino in want of particular care, not solely due to his standing as a critically endangered species however as a result of he’s additionally blind and can’t forage on his personal.
“It was really fun,” Elizabeth stated of performing. “I love acting, and I love creating. So, it was a fun ride. I’m just really grateful that I had that opportunity and could create some things that people seem to like.”
