Born in Los Angeles to psychologist Larry Shaw and actress Susan Damante, she began performing in a UCLA acting camp, toured with folk singer Peter Alsop, and signed with Elite Models at thirteen before entering film. Her debut came in the 1981 slasher Home Sweet Home, followed by a role in Ladybugs and a breakout as a teen heroine in Disney’s Hocus Pocus (1993). While at Barnard College, Stanley…
