LDShadowLady

YouTuber, Twitch streamer
Elizabeth Dwyer
@ldshadowlady
British
34 years old
Born October 7, 1992
Libra

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Elizabeth Dwyer, known as LDShadowLady, is a British gaming YouTuber best known for Minecraft.^[1]^[2]^[3] Her Shadowcraft series follows a modded single-player survival game.^[2] She was named a Top Women Esports & Gaming honoree in 2024.^[1]

YouTube career

She began making YouTube videos after finding a group of women sharing their Call of Duty 4 sessions online. The channel grew in 2011, and she made it her full-time job in 2015. In a 2018 interview, she described condensing an hour of gameplay into a ten-minute video and setting her own challenges in Minecraft and The Sims.^[4]

She played on the Empires multiplayer servers in 2021 and 2022, where participants built their own empires and formed alliances and rivalries. Her X Life series used a modded server in 2020 where players started with one heart of health and had ten lives.^[5]

Voice acting and film

She voiced herself in Minecraft: Story Mode alongside CaptainSparklez and DanTDM.^[6] Their episode, A Portal to Mystery, was available by June 2016.^[7] She later appeared as an auction attendee in A Minecraft Movie (2025).^[8]

Personal information

Real name: Elizabeth Dwyer ^[1]
Gender: Female ^[4]^[9]
Birthday: October 7, 1992
Age: 34 years
Zodiac sign: Libra
Birthplace: England, United Kingdom
Based in: North of England ^[4]
Occupation: YouTuber ^[1]
Nationality: British ^[2]
Education: Computer Animation & Visualization, Liverpool John Moores University (2012–2015)
Family: Married to Joel Smallishbeans (2019)
Siblings: Sister Maddie (Microglitching)
Pets: Dog Meri and cat Buddy ^[3]

General information

Language: EN
On Twitch since: 7 April 2011
Twitch followers: 585,966
Channel age: 15y 6m
Twitch data updated: 6 hours ago
Category: MECCHA CHAMELEON
Teams: MCC, Festivale SMP, ProjectSiMP, biscuit boys

Sources

"Top Women Esports & Gaming 2024". Chief Marketer. August 29, 2025. Retrieved October 18, 2026.
"LDShadowLady - Gaming". Shorty Awards. Retrieved October 18, 2026. Archived on July 13, 2026.
"About LDShadowLady". Twitch. Retrieved October 18, 2026.
"LDShadowLady: behind the camera of UK's top female YouTube gamer". Evening Standard. November 7, 2018. Retrieved October 18, 2026. Archived on March 10, 2024.
"LDShadowLady". YouTube. Retrieved October 18, 2026.
"Minecraft: Story Mode". Wikipedia. Retrieved October 18, 2026. Archived on October 8, 2026.
"Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 6 - ‘A Portal to Mystery’ Out Now". Telltale Games. Retrieved October 18, 2026. Archived on September 16, 2026.
"A Minecraft Movie". Wikipedia. Retrieved October 18, 2026. Archived on October 16, 2026.
"LDShadowLady (@ldshadowlady)". Instagram. Retrieved October 18, 2026.