Shawn was born on 16 August 1986 under the star sign of Leo. He was born in Tampa in Florida in the United States of America. He is also known as Shawn Caminiti Pyfrom. He is a well-known actor who is loved by a large audience. He belongs to 7 decent, and he is of Dutch, Hungarian, Irish, French and Italian ethnicity along with Welsh and English decent. He has two siblings. Out of the two siblings, he has an elder brother whose name is Christopher Pyfrom and the second one out of the two sibling is the younger sister whose name is Amber Pyfrom. There is no information about his parents though. Shawn is known to have a strong academic background as he always scored good marks.


Shawn gained popularity from one role. The name of the show is Desperate Housewives. The role which he is loved for is that of the disturbed gay son of the character Bree Van and the character Rex Van. The show was aired on ABC. Shawn is reported to be a part of five seasons of the show. Though for the first season he only gave occasional appearance, for the second season he was a cast member. He also appeared in the next season along with the fourth season. But he got lucky in the fifth season when he appeared in the last season with a full time role. He left the show in 2009 but he continued to appear in guest appearance for the show. This gives an indication of how popular he was.

In 2006, he appeared in ‘The Shaggy Dog’. This was a Walt Disney movie. The very next year he also appeared in ‘The Darkroom’. All the movies were widely loved by the children and rest of the audience. Shawn went through bad substance abuse and he was an alcoholic. For this he had to be admitted in hospital in 2014. It took him 5 months to recover. He had been reported to be dating Andi Elloway. This proved a lot of rumours wrong, as he was rumoured to be a gay after he acted in Desperate Housewives. This proved that he was not a gay and he had straight sexual orientation.

He recently uploaded a picture with his girlfriend Andi Elloway and that went viral. The picture was trending on social media. His girlfriend is known to be a photographer and she captures the shots really well. May be that’s the reason she captured Shawn’s heart as well. He haven’t gone public about his plans of getting married to this wonderful lady. It is reported that they form a really cute pair.

Shawn’s annual salary is not public but it is clear that he earns a healthy salary because of his igh popularity in the show Desperate Housewives and the movies that he did with Walt Disney. His net worth is estimated to be around 1 million US dollars. Shawn’s net worth speaks of his success.

Last Modified: Apr 6, 2020


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