Brie Shaffer

Brie Shaffer is known for being a screenwriter, an actress and a fine artist but most of her fame comes being married to actor, Michael Pena.

Entertainment Career

Brie has directed three student films and had a regular role in the TV series, Pilot that produced by Fox.

Marriage to a Famous Actor

Brie Shaffer is married to actor, Michael Pena and they had a son named Roman in 2008. Michael Pena got married to Brie Shaffer after being in a relationship for a long period of. They decided to start to live together as a wife and husband because they wanted to spend more time with each other. The two got married in 2006 and have happily been married since then without any signs of divorce.

Brie Shaffer’s celebrity status has been overshadowed by her husband. It is hard to get to know more about her because there is a lack of information available to the public about her background

Her husband, Michael Pena was born January 13, 1976 in Chicago, Illinois. His father is Eleuterio Pena who was a factory worker and his mother is Nicolasa, who was a social worker. His parents immigrated to the United States from Mexico.

He has been able to succeed in many areas of his career. He is a successful actor that has appeared in many television shows and films. He is a popular person online and he is involved with fans on Twitter and Instagram. On Twitter, he has thousands of followers and he has tweeted over a thousand times. He likes to upload the pictures on Instagram where he can share his personal photos with his fans.

He has had to perform shirtless in some movies and TV shows whenever the script demands it but he has no issue with what the director wants. He has been involved in the best TV shows and great movies which have taken his fame to another level. He had a role in the My Fellow Americans movie where he was Ernesto.

Even though he had been acting in independent films and shows ever since 1994, he was finally able to make a breakthrough when he starred in Million Dollar Baby. He got a lot of exposure from being in the film because it won an Oscar for Best Picture. He was Omar in the movie Million Dollar Baby starring Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank. Some other popular movies he was in are Crash, The Lucky Ones, Ant-Man, Fury, The Martian, American Hustle, Gangster Squad, End of Watch, Tower Heist, Observe and Report, and World Trade Center. He is beloved by fans for his comedic timing and charm.

Besides his live action acting, he voiced Ricky in the comedy Chozen which was an FX animated movie.

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Family Life

Michael Pena claims that he has become more cautious in life ever since he became a father. Michael stated that fatherhood has transformed his approach and perspective to life. In an interview with Purdue Exponent, he described how his life changed after his son Ramon was born in 2008, "It makes you more cautious. Like, even the way that I drive now is a little more cautious."

Michael plays the role of DEA agent Kiki Camarena in the Netflix series called Narcos. He stated that he identified with his character's parental responsibilities and obligations. His character, Camarena had three sons with his wife Mika before he was killed in 1985. When asked by Entertainment Tonight how playing the role impacted him as a parent, he said, "You get the feeling of potential loss, like you don't want your kids to grow up without a parent. So, you sort of take that into consideration whenever you're close to danger or what not. That's what I would think of when I was playing certain parts or certain scenes is that think of the big picture and is it worth it."

Scientologist Controversy

Brie is a known scientologist and came under fire when a fellow member named Danny Masterson got in trouble with rape allegations. The Church of Scientology had been passing a petition around for its members to sign. There were reports that the church was putting pressure on their members to sign it in order to cancel the show of former Scientology member Leah Remini who had been exposing the Church to the public and media.

Brie’s husband Michael is also part of the church but he was not directly involved with the controversy that was attached to her. She actively shared Ram Sharma’s petition but made some changes to it. The original title of the petition was “Cancel A&E’s ‘Leah Remini Scientology and the Aftermath'” but when she shared the post, she changed the title to “Stand with Daniel Masterson”

Leah Remini’s show had not mentioned the Scientologist and That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson or the investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department regarding allegations of rape by three different women who were all Scientologists when they claimed that they were attacked by Masterson between 2001 and 2003.

Remini has shown her support for the three victims and also spoke with the LAPD detective in charge of the investigation. Even though she did her part behind the scenes, she did not speak about it publicly on her show.

Some people against the Church of Scientology investigated Brie’s post and found out she was listed in the police report as a witness to one of Danny Masterson’s alleged rape incidents.

A woman known as “Victim B” reported her alleged rape to the Los Angeles Police Department In 2004. When she was asked to provide names of witnesses that could confirm her story, the first person she named and the first person listed on the police report was Brie Shaffer.

The only logical conclusion that could be drawn was that Brie was trying to hide her own tracks. She knows that her name is on the report and wants the case to go away as quietly as possible.

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