Shauntay Hinton

Shauntay Hinton

Beauty pageant titleholder
Birth name	Shauntay Hinton
Birth location	Starkville, Mississippi U.S.
Eye color	Brown
Hair color	Brown
Title(s)	Miss District of Columbia USA 2002 Miss USA 2002
Major competition(s)	Miss USA 2002 (winner) Miss Universe 2002

Shauntay Hinton is an actress and former beauty queen from Starkville, Mississippi who won the Miss USA title in 2002.

Biography

Education

Hinton graduated from Starkville High School in 1997. She later studied broadcast communications at Howard University.

Pageants

Hinton won the Miss District of Columbia USA 2002 title in November 2001, the first time she had competed in the competition. Hinton hails from Starkville, Mississippi and she qualified to compete there because she was attending Howard University.

Hinton went on to represent the District of Columbia at the Miss USA 2002 pageant held in Gary, Indiana on 28 February, 2002 where she became the third African American to win the Miss USA title.^[1] The pageant marked the first time that 4 out of the 5 five finalists were African American.

Hinton later competed in the Miss Universe 2002 pageant in Puerto Rico in May that year. As of 2007, she is one of only three Miss USA winners not to have placed among the semifinalists at Miss Universe. The other two are Miss USA 1976 Barbara Peterson and Miss USA 1999 Kimberly Pressler.

Casting

She plays a live action character, reporter Brittany Murphy, in the video game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, released in 2007.

In 2009, Hinton played Jessica Warner in 2 episodes of ICarly.

Filmography

References

External links

• Shauntay Hinton at the Internet Movie Database

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