Searching for Angela Shelton
| Angela Shelton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 5, 1972 Asheville, North Carolina, United States |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, actress, producer |
| Spouse(s) |
Gavin O'Connor (1995–1996; divorce) Abe Ingersoll (?–?; divorced) Karl Aurel Kail (m. 2012) |
| Children | 2 |
Angela Shelton (born December 5, 1972) is an American screenwriter, actress, and documentary film producer, best known for the film Tumbleweeds and the documentary Searching for Angela Shelton, which she wrote, directed, and edited. She is the author of the book Finding Angela Shelton: The True Story of One Woman's Triumph over Sexual Abuse.
Shelton was a co-screenwriter (with then-husband Gavin O'Connor) and executive producer for the 1999 film Tumbleweeds, based on her experiences with her serial-marrying mother, to whom she was returned after being in foster care.
She has acted in the films Comfortably Numb (1995), The Shrink Is In (2001), The Big Time (2002 television movie), The Safe Side, a 2004 instructional video, and Beautiful Dreamer (aka Daysleeper) (2009). On television, Shelton has appeared in Pacific Blue, Chicago Hope, and Becker.
After her parents divorced, Shelton lived with her father, stepmother, stepbrother, and stepsister in North Carolina. She and her siblings were sexually molested by her father and stepmother, and were eventually removed from their care and placed in foster care. The events in her childhood inspired her to make a documentary.
In 2001, Shelton undertook the production of a documentary in which she travelled the United States in an effort to interview 40 of the 76 women who shared her name, whom she found while searching the Internet.
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