Sheila Vand

Sheila Vand

Birth : 1985-04-27, Los Angeles, California, USA

History

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.

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Sheila Vand
Sheila Vand

Movies

Land of Dreams
Simin
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.
The Rental
Mina
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.
White Echo
Winnie
Five women in their thirties examine their own power in life.
The Colony
Simin
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.
Land of Dreams
Simin
This film is a rumination on cultural identity told through the viewpoint of a female photographer from Iran, traveling across the western US.
The Wave
Theresa
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.
Triple Frontier
Lauren Yates
Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
She's Missing
Cherry
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.
Viper Club
Sheila
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.
Prospect
Inumon
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.
We the Animals
Ma
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.
86'd
The Wife (Voice)
Four seedy stories transpire over the course of one late-night order at a 24-hour deli in Koch-era NYC.
Aardvark
Hannah
The aardvark has evolved to be one of a kind. You could say the same of Josh Norman.
68 Kill
Monica
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.
XX
Carla (segment "The Birthday Party")
This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.
Women Who Kill
Simone
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.
Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
Leila
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.
Camino
Marianna
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.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Shakira
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.
In Her Place
Nazy
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.
Quarantine
God (voice)
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.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
The Girl
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.
Argo
Sahar
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.
This is Caroline
Deb
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.
Pashmaloo
Farah
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.
Bold Native
Sonja
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.
Girlfriend
Kenny's Wife (voice) (uncredited)
A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
Arnold and the Alps
Shiloh
Arnold tries to realize his lifelong dream of ice climbing.
Peter and the Mischievous Hanky
White Witch
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.