Sheila Vand

Sheila Vand

Born: April 27, 1985
in Los Angeles, California, USA
Sheila Vand is an actress, known for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), Argo (2012) and We the Animals (2018). Grew up in Palo Alto, she is a second-generation Iranian-American of Persian descent.

Movies for Sheila Vand...

Land of Dreams
Title: Land of Dreams
Character: Simin
Released: September 16, 2022
Type: Movie
Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works for the Census Bureau which, in an effort to control its citizens, has begun a program to record their dreams. Unaware of this devious plot, Simin is torn between her compassion for those whose dreams she is recording and a truth she must find within.
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The Rental
Title: The Rental
Character: Mina
Released: July 23, 2020
Type: Movie
Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister.
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Title: Snowpiercer
Character: Zarah Ferami
Released: May 17, 2020
Type: TV
More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.
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White Echo
Title: White Echo
Character: Winnie
Released: October 21, 2019
Type: Movie
Five women in their thirties examine their own power in life.
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Land of Dreams
Title: Land of Dreams
Character: Simin
Released: October 19, 2019
Type: Movie
This film is a rumination on cultural identity told through the viewpoint of a female photographer from Iran, traveling across the western US.
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The Colony
Title: The Colony
Character: Simin
Released: October 19, 2019
Type: Movie
The Colony, which shares the screen and the character of Shirin Neshat's Land of Dreams, is about an immense research institute devoted to recording and archiving the dreams of the local population.
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The Wave
Title: The Wave
Character: Theresa
Released: September 21, 2019
Type: Movie
A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
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Title: Undone
Character: Farnaz
Released: September 12, 2019
Type: TV
After getting into a near fatal car accident, Alma discovers she has a new relationship with time and uses this ability to find out the truth about her father’s death.
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Triple Frontier
Title: Triple Frontier
Character: Lauren Yates
Released: March 6, 2019
Type: Movie
Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
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She's Missing
Title: She's Missing
Character: Cherry
Released: March 1, 2019
Type: Movie
When her best friend goes missing at a rodeo, Heidi goes on a search across the desert, digging up secrets and encountering the violence of life on the road.
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Viper Club
Title: Viper Club
Character: Sheila
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
ER nurse Helen Sterling struggles to free her grown son, a journalist captured by terrorists in the Middle East. After hitting walls with the FBI and State agencies, she discovers a clandestine community of journalists, advocates, and philanthropists who might be able to help.
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Prospect
Title: Prospect
Character: Inumon
Released: October 2, 2018
Type: Movie
A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive.
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We the Animals
Title: We the Animals
Character: Ma
Released: August 17, 2018
Type: Movie
Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.
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86'd
Title: 86'd
Character: The Wife (Voice)
Released: May 27, 2018
Type: Movie
Four seedy stories transpire over the course of one late-night order at a 24-hour deli in Koch-era NYC.
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Aardvark
Title: Aardvark
Character: Hannah
Released: April 13, 2018
Type: Movie
The aardvark has evolved to be one of a kind. You could say the same of Josh Norman.
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68 Kill
Title: 68 Kill
Character: Monica
Released: August 4, 2017
Type: Movie
Chip's problem is that he can't say no to beautiful women. This weakness gets him into a world of trouble when he agrees to help his girlfriend steal $68,000.
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XX
Title: XX
Character: Carla (segment "The Birthday Party")
Released: February 17, 2017
Type: Movie
This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.
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Title: 24: Legacy
Character: Nilaa
Released: February 5, 2017
Type: TV
The story of military hero Eric Carter’s return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back – compelling him to ask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.
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Title: The OA
Character: Yassi
Released: December 16, 2016
Type: TV
Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk with the FBI or her parents about the seven years she went missing.
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Women Who Kill
Title: Women Who Kill
Character: Simone
Released: July 27, 2016
Type: Movie
Morgan and Jean work well together as true crime podcasters because they didn’t work well, at all, as a couple. However, when Morgan strikes up a new relationship with the mysterious Simone, their shared interest turns into suspicion, paranoia, and fear.
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Holidays
Title: Holidays
Character: Lily (segment "Mother's Day")
Released: April 22, 2016
Type: Movie
An anthology feature film that puts a uniquely dark and original spin on some of the most iconic and beloved holidays of all time by challenging our folklore, traditions and assumptions.
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Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
Title: Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
Character: Leila
Released: March 13, 2016
Type: Movie
A wannabe private investigator wins the Green Card lottery and moves to America to pursue his dream only to find himself embroiled in a conspiracy to start the next world war.
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Title: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Character: Shakira
Released: March 4, 2016
Type: Movie
In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel, a fellow journalist who takes the shell-shocked reporter under her wing. Amid the militants, warlords and nighttime partying, Barker discovers the key to becoming a successful correspondent.
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Camino
Title: Camino
Character: Marianna
Released: March 4, 2016
Type: Movie
A photojournalist gets more than she bargained for when she snaps a photo of a shadowy religious figure in the jungles of Colombia, triggering a flight – and fight – for her life.
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Title: Minority Report
Character: Fredi
Released: September 21, 2015
Type: TV
Ten years after the demise of Precrime, crime-solving is different and justice leans more on sophisticated and trusted technology than on the instincts of the precogs—individuals who able to see the future. In Washington, D.C., a man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past race to stop the worst crimes of the year 2065 before they happen.
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In Her Place
Title: In Her Place
Character: Nazy
Released: June 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Cultural, gender, and emotional challenges are explored in this story of an Iranian-American widower who returns to his homeland to take a second wife.
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Quarantine
Title: Quarantine
Character: God (voice)
Released: February 8, 2015
Type: Movie
Clark has been quarantined his whole life and inundated with selective media. As the monotony of his minimal environment weighs on him, Clark starts to crave one thing - touch.
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Title: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Character: The Girl
Released: November 21, 2014
Type: Movie
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
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Title: State of Affairs
Character: Maureen James
Released: November 17, 2014
Type: TV
Each day the President is faced with dozens of life and death decisions, and to prioritize the biggest international crises facing the country, one top CIA analyst - Charleston Tucker - assembles the President's Daily Briefing. This list of the most vital security issues facing the nation brings with it moral and political judgment calls for Charleston and her trusted group of brilliant analysts at the agency. Aside from the political minefields she has to walk, Charlie has a close personal relationship with the President because she was once engaged to her son before a tragic terrorist attack took his life. Charlie survived that attack and is now determined to bring the perpetrators to justice. Navigating a complex personal life and a pressure-cooker profession is, of course, a challenge, and Charlie sometimes engages in boundary-pushing behavior to avoid facing her grief. But when the clock strikes 2 a.m., she is all about her job - protecting her nation, serving her president and still trying to get to the bottom of her fiancé's murder that will reveal itself as a shocking mystery.
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Title: BoJack Horseman
Character: Todd's Phone (voice)
Released: August 22, 2014
Type: TV
Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the 90s - 20 years later. BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit TV show "Horsin' Around," but today he's washed up, living in Hollywood, complaining about everything, and wearing colorful sweaters.
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Argo
Title: Argo
Character: Sahar
Released: October 11, 2012
Type: Movie
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
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This is Caroline
Title: This is Caroline
Character: Deb
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
This is Caroline tells the story of how a darkly comic accident, misinterpreted as a suicide attempt, forces a girl to acknowledge real feelings of loneliness.
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Hairy
Title: Hairy
Character: Farah
Released: February 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Farah, a teenager from the USA, is a bit wilder than Nilou, who was brought up in Iran. The pair heads for a lonely hill to spend some time alone listening to music. Their differences begin to make themselves apparent when Farah tries to explain that girls should be less hairy.
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Bold Native
Title: Bold Native
Character: Sonja
Released: November 27, 2010
Type: Movie
Charlie Cranehill, an animal liberator wanted for domestic terrorism, emerges from the underground to coordinate a nationwide action as his estranged CEO father tries to find him before the FBI does.
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Girlfriend
Title: Girlfriend
Character: Kenny's Wife (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 2010
Type: Movie
A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
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Title: Life
Character: Shahnaz Darvashi
Released: September 26, 2007
Type: TV
Complex, offbeat Detective Charlie Crews returns to the force after serving time in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Crews’ new lease on life has provided him with a Zen-like outlook, peace of mind and no need for vengeance, an attitude which can be challenging to maintain when someone he cares about is threatened — or when he is investigating the mystery surrounding the murder he was falsely accused of.
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Arnold and the Alps
Title: Arnold and the Alps
Character: Shiloh
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Arnold tries to realize his lifelong dream of ice climbing.
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Peter and the Mischievous Hanky
Title: Peter and the Mischievous Hanky
Character: White Witch
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Grieving the recent death of his mother, Peter enters the mysterious world of his imagination to retrieve the last gift left him, now stolen by a beautiful, but evil queen. Along the way he must learn to trust the unknown and redefine all he knew.