Shaun So is a former army reserve member who served in Afghanistan from the early to mid-2000s. He is also better known as the wife of the ex-child star, Anna Chlumsky. Shaun’s wife, Chlumsky, was the little girl who had become a childhood icon through her role alongside Macaulay Culkin in the 1991 film, My girlfriend.
So’s actress wife is also known for playing Amy Brookheimer on the HBO hit comedy series, Cattle. Shaun and Chlumsky have been together since the early 2000s and the couple has kept it together; with a long-distance relationship in between.
Shaun spent ten years as a counter-terrorism expert and special agent for the United States military and the Department of Defense. He now works as a private sector owner. Meanwhile, Chlumsky’s husband also helps companies navigate bureaucratic government sectors with STOR Technologies. Wade through an extensive wiki about him in the rundown below, starting with his family to how he met his actress wife, his army enlistment, his post-military life, and even the extras.
So Shaun is a son of Chinese parents
Shaun comes from a Chinese family. Similar to Chlumsky’s father, So’s daddy is also a chef who has a chinese restaurant called China Town in Topsham, Maine.
Though So has yet to share his birth details, he is apparently the same age as his wife, Chlumsky, who was born in December 1980.
his education
The wife of the Veep actress, Shaun So, graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in political science. In the year 2001, So also studied Mandarin at Tsinghua University.
He also holds an MBA degree from the City University of New York.
That’s how Shaun met his wife, Anna Chlumsky, at a college dance
Shaun and Emmy-nominated Anna met in 2000 at the University of Chicago at a rare quad dance party. The couple were both students at the University of Chicago at the time.
Shaun was apparently a year behind Chlumsky when they were in college. After being introduced, Chlumsky during an interview with Interview Magazine revealed that the two danced for four hours.
However, Shaun didn’t make the move as Anna had expected; the reason was that Shaun was just shy according to the In the loop actress herself.
It was after their second meeting at Eminem’s concert that Chlumsky and Shaun began a relationship for more than two decades.
Shaun had a long distance relationship with Anna
After college, the couple began their long-distance relationship when Shaun went to Washington DC to train for the military, while his then-girlfriend, Chlumsky, went to New York for her job as an editorial assistant. After Shaun’s bet, he and the… Uncle Buck actress maintained their long distance relationship for about three or four years.
Anna says she led a rather lonely life during Shaun’s military tenure in Afghanistan. Anna once revealed because she was dating an army, people used to look at her when she told them about their relationship.
Chlumsky said during an interview that she experienced the lonely girlfriend of the army with the help of Homer’s Odyssey.
Shaun returned from the military unharmed in January 2006. That same year, in May, he proposed to the former child star Anna. The couple got engaged in October 2007. A year after the engagement, the good guy actress and Shaun married each other in March 2008 in Brooklyn, New York.


Recalling her marriage to So, Anna told the Daily Mail in May 2013:
Shaun’s family is Chinese and my family is Catholic. So we’re going to do a fusion of the two cultural traditions.
Although the couple skipped the traditional Chinese custom of kidnapping the bride.
Shaun So and Anna Chlumsky are parents of two daughters
Five years after the marriage, So and his actress wife Anna welcomed their first child, a daughter, Penelope Joan So, in July 2013.
The couple are said to have named their daughter after Odysseus’ wife Penelope from Homer’s Odyssey. Three years after welcoming Penelope, So and his actress wife had another daughter, Clara Elizabeth, in August 2016.
What roles did Shaun serve in the military like this?
Part of the reason Shaun joined the military was that he was annoyed that he could only watch America’s then-new war on terror from the TVs. He preferred to experience it all firsthand.
Shaun enlisted in the military in 2003, enlisting for the first time in the US federal government’s Defense Intelligence Agency. He was an intelligence analyst. Within the military, Shaun first served in the federal agency from June 2003 to April 2006.


Meanwhile, he was also a member of the US Army’s special counterintelligence unit. He was a member until 2011. Sometimes he was the leader of domestic and international combat operations alongside a tactical team sergeant.
Along with intelligence, the blonde actress’ husband also worked as a defense contractor for McNeil Technologies; a job lasting from July 2006 to March 2009.
During the military, Shaun only experienced a few incidents. His actress wife revealed in October 2014 that the cases were when So’s Humvee was hit by an IED, and the other time he and his team faced the ambush in the field.
The now mother of two would apparently send Shaun his favorite things when he was on duty. Shaun joined the Department of Defense in 2003, right after he finished college.
Shaun’s Life After the Army; What is he doing now?
After his shift ended in 2011, So co-founded urban logistics start-up Cubby. He was CEO of the company from June 2011 to April 2012.


Shaun described the aforementioned start-up as an urban personal logistics company. The 41-year-old ex-army man once revealed that he came up with the idea of starting a pop-up business after realizing how difficult it was for his wife to handle multiple bags when she went to work.
As a pop-up store, Cubby provided a temporary luggage storage facility, giving people the advantage of being able to roam freely through the city while leaving their luggage with Cubby for a fee. However, this startup from Shaun closed within a year.
After Cubby, Shaun worked as an employee for Forbes. During his tenure with the business magazine from 2012 to 2014, So wrote pieces on topics such as entrepreneurship, business and of course the veterans. Shaun has also written for Ironsighting.com.
So for now is the CEO and managing partner of The So Company. It turns out to be a content-driven service design company whose clients range from large government agencies to small US and European startups.
How rich is Shaun So’s wife, Anna Chlumsky; What about his equity?
Despite a nearly a decade hiatus from acting, Chlumsky has somehow been in Hollywood. Recently, the actress has remained fairly busy with her roles on hits such as Veep, invent Anna, Greetings, and others.
And one of the aforementioned shows, Veep really made the money come to So’s wife, and that too on a pretty big scale until the series finale. Resulting with occasional serial appearances and at times, her regular job has so far made her an actress with a net worth of easily over $5 million or so.
On the other hand, although her husband, So’s financial position is something of a brain teaser for the general public. Given his pursuits outside of the media spotlight, it can only be recommended what he has created through his service, collaborator, his startups and others. Regardless, in light of his current life as CEO, So’s net worth could be at least close to six figures or even higher.