At age 7, she won a Young Authors Award and at 12 received 2nd place in a Veterans of Foreign Wars essay competition.
[3] She became emancipated at age 16 and moved to Los Angeles, where she trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and Playhouse West.
In 2006, she played the lead female role in Perkins' 14, a horror film revolving around a group of brainwashed, bloodthirsty teenagers.
[4] “Two of the actors cast through the online competition also hold their own and turn in very good work, particularly Shayla Beesley as Daisy Hopper,” Fangoria magazine reported.
She played a leading role in director Mike Diva's "Kill the Noise (Part 1)," which won MTV Clubland's Video of the Year award for 2012.