Biography
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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Land of Dreams
2022
as 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...
The Rental
2020
as 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 sho...
White Echo
2019
as Winnie
Five women in their thirties examine their own power in life.
Land of Dreams
2019
as 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 Colony
2019
as 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 a...
The Wave
2019
as 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 i...
Triple Frontier
2019
as 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
2019
as 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 th...
Viper Club
2018
as 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 ...
Prospect
2018
as 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 el...
We the Animals
2018
as 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 th...
86'd
2018
as 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
2018
as Hannah
The aardvark has evolved to be one of a kind. You could say the same of Josh Norman.
68 Kill
2017
as 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 ...
XX
2017
as Carla (segment "The Birthday Party")
This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.
Women Who Kill
2016
as 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 ...
Holidays
2016
as Lily (segment "Mother's Day")
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 f...
Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
2016
as 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 ...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016
as 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 co...
Camino
2016
as 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 fligh...
In Her Place
2015
as 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
2015
as 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 t...
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
2014
as 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 vampi...
Argo
2012
as 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 ...
This is Caroline
2012
as 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 lo...
Hairy
2011
as 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 list...
Bold Native
2010
as Sonja
Charlie Cranehill, an animal liberator wanted for domestic terrorism, emerges from the underground to coordinate a nationwide action as his estranged ...
Girlfriend
2010
as 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.
Passing On
2010
as Diana
It's hard to ignore your family when they show up in the mail.
Arnold and the Alps
N/A
as Shiloh
Arnold tries to realize his lifelong dream of ice climbing.
Peter and the Mischievous Hanky
N/A
as 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 beau...