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40 free Shay Mitchell trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Shay Mitchell is best known as Emily Fields in Pretty Little Liars, but her story runs well beyond one long-running mystery series. She worked abroad before she ever acted, was turned down for a different part before landing the one that made her name, and has since built a second career as a founder and producer. This quiz gathers the fun facts fans look for: where she grew up, her famous relative, the roles she has played in thrillers, comedies, horror and animation, the music videos she turned up in, and the companies she launched. Every question comes with a short explanation, so you pick up the story behind each answer. It suits Pretty Little Liars devotees, viewers who met her in later series, and anyone who enjoys celebrity trivia with a few surprises.
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Q 01Shay Mitchell first auditioned for which other Pretty Little Liars character before she was cast as Emily Fields?
Spencer Hastings
Spencer Hastings was the part she read for first; she then tried out for Emily and won a role she kept for seven seasons.
Q 02Shay Mitchell's mother, Precious Garcia, comes from the province of Pampanga in which Asian country?
Philippines
Philippines-born Precious Garcia left the country at 19; Mitchell's father, Mark, is of Scottish and Irish descent.
Q 03Shay Mitchell's mother is a first cousin of which Tony-winning singer, the singing voice of Princess Jasmine and Mulan?
Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga won that Tony in 1991 for Miss Saigon, becoming the first actress of Asian descent to win Best Actress in a Musical.
Q 04Shay Mitchell co-founded which travel brand in 2018, launching it with a duffle, a weekender and a backpack?
Béis
Béis launched with seven styles priced under $100, with Mitchell as co-founder and creative director.
Q 05Shay Mitchell's dance-challenge clip appears in the video for 'In My Feelings', a 2018 number one by which Canadian?
Drake
Drake ended the video with a montage of celebrities attempting the viral dance; Mitchell's attempt shared the screen with the cast of Queer Eye.
Q 06The thriller You, co-starring Shay Mitchell, first aired in 2018 on which cable channel before moving to Netflix?
Lifetime
Lifetime drew small audiences and passed on a second season, and the series became a worldwide hit only after Netflix picked it up.
Q 07Shay Mitchell's Pretty Little Liars character, Emily Fields, is the athlete of the group and competes in which sport?
Swimming
Swimming marks Emily on the page too: in the novels her hair is tinted blue-green by the pool's chlorine.
Q 08In the horror film The Possession of Hannah Grace, Shay Mitchell's ex-cop takes a night shift at what kind of workplace?
A morgue
A morgue is where her character, Megan Reed, logs a body that will not stay dead; the low-budget chiller grossed $43 million worldwide.
Q 09Shay Mitchell's nickname is short for which first name, the one she was given at birth in 1987?
Shannon
Shannon Ashley Garcia Mitchell is her full name; Garcia is the surname of her mother, Precious.
Q 10As a teenager, before she turned to acting, Shay Mitchell worked in Bangkok, Hong Kong and Barcelona as what?
A fashion model
A fashion model for a variety of companies by her late teens, she then went back to Toronto to study acting.
Q 11Shay Mitchell was born in 1987 in which Ontario city, a neighbour of Toronto that is home to Pearson airport?
Mississauga
Mississauga is where she was born to Mark Mitchell and Precious Garcia; she later studied acting next door in Toronto.
Q 12Shay Mitchell was born in Ontario but finished high school in a suburb of which other Canadian city?
Vancouver
Vancouver was home in her teens: she graduated from West Vancouver Secondary School, and the Pretty Little Liars pilot was later filmed in the city.
Q 13Shay Mitchell plays the love interest in the 2009 video for 'Hold My Hand' by which Jamaican star?
Sean Paul
Sean Paul's clip came out in December 2009, six months before Pretty Little Liars premiered.
Q 21Emily Fields, the character Shay Mitchell played for seven seasons, was created in 2006 by which American novelist?
Sara Shepard
Sara Shepard wrote the Pretty Little Liars novels after a book packager pitched the idea as a Desperate Housewives for teens; the main series ran to 16 books.
Q 22Shay Mitchell's Emily Fields and her friends are tormented by the anonymous 'A' in which fictional Pennsylvania town?
Rosewood
Rosewood is home to the Liars across the show's 160 episodes, although after the pilot the series was filmed in Los Angeles.
Q 23Pretty Little Liars, Shay Mitchell's breakout series, premiered in 2010 on which channel, later renamed Freeform?
ABC Family
Q 14Shay Mitchell began acting in 2009 with a one-episode cameo in which long-running Canadian teen drama franchise?
Degrassi
Degrassi: The Next Generation used her in a single episode, credited as a model; the next year she was a lead in an American teen drama.
Q 15In the first season of the thriller You, Shay Mitchell plays which wealthy socialite, best friend of Guinevere Beck?
Peach Salinger
Peach Salinger is a controlling socialite who met Beck at Brown University and harbours a secret passion for her.
Q 16Shay Mitchell starred in the first season of You opposite which former Gossip Girl actor, who plays Joe Goldberg?
Penn Badgley
Penn Badgley plays a New York bookstore manager whose fixation on a customer turns deadly, a role that ran for five seasons.
Q 17Shay Mitchell plays free spirit Stella Cole in the comedy Dollface, whose heroine Jules is played by which actress?
Kat Dennings
Kat Dennings also executive produced the comedy, which Mitchell joined in a recasting after another actress was first given Stella.
Q 18Shay Mitchell's comedy series Dollface premiered in November 2019 on which streaming service?
Hulu
Hulu ran the comedy for two seasons, cancelled it in 2022 and later pulled it from streaming in a cost-cutting purge.
Q 19Shay Mitchell made her voice-acting debut in 2021 as the title character of which Netflix animated series?
Trese
Trese required her to recite some lines in a language she knows but is not fluent in, so she worked with a dialect coach over Zoom.
Q 20Shay Mitchell is an executive producer of which Fox crime drama about a surgeon working for a Las Vegas mob?
The Cleaning Lady
The Cleaning Lady, adapted from an Argentine series, ran for four seasons with Élodie Yung in the lead.
ABC Family made it the network's longest-running original series; the adaptation had first been planned for The WB, which shut down in 2006.
Q 24Shay Mitchell shared a Ship of the Year nomination at the MTV Fandom Awards with which co-star, who plays Alison?
Sasha Pieterse
Sasha Pieterse plays the queen bee Emily has loved since seventh grade in the novels; the pair were nominated as a screen couple again in 2017.
Q 25Shay Mitchell's 2016 ensemble comedy Mother's Day was the final film of which director, who also made Pretty Woman?
Garry Marshall
Garry Marshall died in July 2016, and the comedy, narrated by his sister Penny, also proved to be her final film.
Q 26In the film Mother's Day, Shay Mitchell plays Tina, the young new wife of the ex-husband of which star's character?
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston plays Sandy, a divorced mother of two who is still getting used to the remarriage; Timothy Olyphant plays the ex.
Q 27Shay Mitchell voices Brenda, a popular girl who is murdered, in which adult animated series led by Mindy Kaling?
Velma
Velma is a Scooby-Doo prequel made for HBO Max, and the first series in the franchise that leaves out the dog himself.
Q 28Shay Mitchell documented her first pregnancy in Almost Ready, a 2019 series posted fortnightly on which platform?
YouTube
YouTube was also where she broke the news, surprising fans with the announcement on her own channel.
Q 29In 2011 Shay Mitchell signed with Procter & Gamble to front a shampoo line from which haircare brand?
Pantene
Pantene picked her for its Nature Fusion range, a deal that arrived during her first year on Pretty Little Liars.
Q 30Shay Mitchell made her writing debut in 2015 with which young adult novel, co-written with Michaela Blaney?
Bliss
Bliss came out in October 2015, and a HelloGiggles review called the novel a must-read.