Sian Evans

Sian Evans McGough Shizuka (born Sian Amber Evans; September 29, 1989), previously Sian Evans McGough and known professionally as Sian Evans, is an actress and screenwriter. She starred as Shay McCarthy in the Leoverse film Ugly in Love (2005) and went on to do costume design on several Leoverse films, including The Intangible History of Alanna Clay-Jones (2009) and Luke & Nikki's Wall of Art (2013). She is the co-writer of Emily Unplugged (2016), which she wrote alongside Leopold McGough and How to Find the Silver Lining (2019), which she wrote alongside Ryan Shizuka. She departed from Leoverse Productions in 2020. Her directorial debut and first film since leaving the Leoverse is Happy Family, which is expected to have a 2022 release.

Early life
Sian Amber Evans was born on September 29, 1989 to Elizabeth (née Wallach) and Patrick Evans in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. The youngest of two children, she was raised in Baldwin, Louisiana and her family struggled financially throughout her childhood.

Personal life
In January 2006, after obtaining parental consent, Evans married Leopold McGough in a private ceremony in California. Jennifer Walmsley, who played Raven Cooke in the film Ass-Kickers' Association, accused McGough, who was 44 at the time, of being predatory in his relationship with Evans. McGough denied these claims. She has four children with McGough: daughter Olive Lila Evans McGough (born November 3, 2006), son Lennon Maxwell Evans McGough (born Fbruary 12, 2008), daughter Flora Hadley Evans McGough (born June 9, 2009) and son Sawyer Holden Evans McGough (born December 16, 2012). The two remained married until McGough's death on June 23, 2017.

Prior to McGough's death, Evans had been having an affair with Ryan Shizuka, whom she married two months after McGough's death on September 2, 2017. On December 7 that year, she gave birth to her first child with Shizuka, son Rowan Evans Shizuka. She gave birth to twin daughters Juniper Evans Shizuka and Presley Evans Shizuka on April 19, 2019. She filed for divorce from Shizuka early in 2020.