Amber Sealey

Amber Sealey

Born: October 27, 1975
Amber Sealey is an award-winning filmmaker and actor who was born in England and raised in New Mexico. Her most recent film, NO LIGHT AND NO LAND ANYWHERE, had its world premiere at the LA Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Award and IndieWire said the film could “further cement Sealey’s reputation as one of the most promising directors of female-driven stories working the U.S. today.”

NO LIGHT AND NO LAND ANYWHERE, Executive Produced by Miranda July, went on to receive the Indie Vision Breakthrough Feature Film Award at Twin Cities Film Festival, and will be theatrically released in 2017.

Her second feature as writer, director, and actor, HOW TO CHEAT, won the Best Performance Award at the LA Film Festival, and won both the Best Narrative Film Award and the Best Acting Award at BendFilm. Critics called it “amazing… laugh-out-loud hilarious” and “one of the most relevant and eloquent portraits of modern marriage to date.” HOW TO CHEAT was distributed by FilmBuff.

Her first film, A PLUS D, premiered at Montreal World, where critics said, “Fact and fiction are obliterated… edgy, anguished, funny… The acting is astonishing… I thought of Cassavetes, Winterbottom” and was distributed by IndiePix Films.

Amber was selected for Film Independent’s Directing Lab and their Fast Track program with her feature script NEW MEXICAN RAIN. She directed Miranda July (ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW) for her scene in her short film, Somebody, and has worked for director Mike Mills (20TH CENTURY WOMEN) pre-directing his actors for commercials. Amber extensively shadowed director Jamie Babbit on Kay Cannon’s Netflix series “Girlboss,” and shadowed Jill Soloway and Marta Cunningham on Soloway’s Amazon series “Transparent.”

Schooling includes: The University of California, Santa Cruz, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and The Central School of Speech and Drama.

As a performer and devisor she worked in London for seven years with the award-winning physical theatre company, SHUNT, as well as performing in numerous films and television shows. She is a highly experienced audio book and voice over artist, and teaches a weekly acting class. She lives in LA with her husband and two children.

Movies for Amber Sealey...

Silver Bullets
Title: Silver Bullets
Character: Casting Director
Released: October 28, 2011
Type: Movie
An actress and her filmmaker boyfriend experience turbulence in their relationship when she accepts a role in a werewolf film.
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How to Cheat
Title: How to Cheat
Character: Beth
Released: June 17, 2011
Type: Movie
A comedy centered on Beth and Mark, a couple struggling to conceive, and Mark's unexpectedly helpful affair with Louise.
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A Plus D
Title: A Plus D
Character: Alice
Released: August 27, 2009
Type: Movie
When Alice and Dan meet their connection is undeniable; it's clear they are meant to be. But are they ready for each other? Confined in their small London flat, they magnify their differences, create conflict out of nothing, and slowly tear each other down.
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The Good Night
Title: The Good Night
Character: Terry
Released: January 25, 2007
Type: Movie
Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When Gary sees his mystery woman's face on a bus billboard, he discovers she is real, and fate brings him an opportunity to meet her.
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Big Nothing
Title: Big Nothing
Character: Call Center Supervisor
Released: December 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.
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Title: Blue Murder
Character: Charlotte Moran
Released: May 18, 2003
Type: TV
Blue Murder is a British crime drama television series based in Manchester. Shown on ITV from 2003 until 2009 when it was cancelled by the network, it starred Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis.
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Bertie and Elizabeth
Title: Bertie and Elizabeth
Character: Wallis Simpson
Released: July 7, 2002
Type: Movie
The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, George V, and next that of his elder brother who succeeded to the British throne as Edward VIII. However Edward decides to put his love for a divorced American, Wallis Simpson, above dynastic duty, and ends up abdicating the throne, which now falls to Bertie, who reigns as George VI.
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Alfred Hitchcock's Gun
Title: Alfred Hitchcock's Gun
Released: November 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Remake of Rope
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Title: Sweet Revenge
Character: Chloe Dubois
Released: October 15, 2001
Type: TV
When Ellen's boyfriend starts an affair with a florist, she embarks on a mission of revenge. After destroying all the flowers in the girl's shop, Ellen ends up in court. Undiscouraged, she contacts the eccentric and mysterious Patrick. He and his team of avengers exact revenge through any means, fair or foul. The only condition of receiving his help is to join the team of avengers.
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Living in Missouri
Title: Living in Missouri
Character: Lucy
Released: October 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Childhood pals grow up and fall apart at the seams in this dark comedy set in the Midwest. Ryan and Todd have been friends forever, but adulthood proves unfulfilling. Ryan's marriage to Amy is in jeopardy, while Todd lives with his parents and envies Ryan's marriage. When Amy begins confiding in Todd, he's convinced he's having an affair with his best friend's wife, resulting in a series of misunderstandings.
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My Beautiful Son
Title: My Beautiful Son
Character: Ellen
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Drama - A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and some answers. - Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl
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Count Backwards from Ten
Title: Count Backwards from Ten
Character: Priscilla
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A troubled woman gets in touch with her early trauma.