Acting
Sofia Banzhaf
Born
1991-06-13 (35)
Place of birth
Germany
Known for
Acting
Credits
28 titles
Sofia Banzhaf is a Canadian actress and filmmaker from Newfoundland and Labrador. As a director, she is most noted for her 2019 short film I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain, which premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films. As an actress, she is known for Closet Monster (2015), Splinters (2018) and Bitten (2014).
Known for
8.1Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.
Reign
2013
7.0Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.
Republic of Doyle
2010
6.6Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom.
Dream Scenario
2023
6.7A Canadian actor on an American police procedural TV series returns home after a public meltdown. Partnering with his police detective friend, he tries to use his acting experience to solve real crimes.
Carter
2018
6.3An ex-cop turned private eye, Marissa Wong, ends up being forced to work with Sarah Winchester, an inexperienced young woman fresh out of university. Each episode, the unlikely duo to solve their client’s cases, which often end up being far more dangerous than they first appear.
Wong & Winchester
2023
6.2A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.
Stage Mother
2020
Film credits
2020s · 5 titles
6.6Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom.
Dream Scenario
2023
6.2A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.
Stage Mother
2020
NRA lonely retail clerk who spends most of her time chatting with AI struggles to identify the source of her unshakeable unease.
Pocket Mirror
2026
2.5A minor traffic citation spirals into an all-consuming obsession for a neurotic young woman.
Retrograde
2023
NRReturning home to Toronto after years away, Nell runs into Jackie, an old friend. As they spend the day together, a buried past rises to the surface, leaving them reckoning with their shared history.
Winter After Winter
2026
2010s · 9 titles
7.0A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
Closet Monster
2016
7.0An overworked student finds his life thrown into chaos when he gets involved with a young drug addict.
4 Quarters
2015
7.5The lives of a disillusioned teen and an alienated man converge in 1980s Newfoundland.
Black Conflux
2019
4.8Follows the journey of Natalie "Honey Bee" Sorensen, an underage truck stop prostitute trapped in a human trafficking ring until she is transplanted into foster care in remote Northern Ontario and forced to confront her identity.
Honey Bee
2018
3.5After a few years absence, Evan unexpectedly returns one night to face his now-famous former bandmates. The surprise reunion is bittersweet, in this intimate depiction of the knotty complexities of relating to old friends after everything has changed.
We Forgot to Break Up
2017
2.0Thom Fitzgerald explores interconnections of sexual identity, family, and small-town Nova Scotia life in this intimate drama about a young woman reassessing her relationship with her mother following the death of her father.
Splinters
2018
NRMy first apartment movie, and a video exorcism.
I've Never Done Anything Without You
2019
4.8Janey arrives at a silent retreat in the middle of the woods for rehabilitation, only to discover that the men who run it aren't afraid to show her what lurks beyond the trees.
Silent Retreat
2013
The morning after hosting a drug-fueled house party, Gracie wakes to learn her ex-boyfriend Feller is dealing with pseudo-friend Kree and roommate Tanya had her precious heirloom pendant stolen. Gracie embarks to retrieve the necklace, meeting friends and acquaintances along the way in a languorous, darkly humourous study of the precarious transition between youth and adulthood.
Diamond Day
2015
Series credits
8.1Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.
Reign
2013
7.0Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.
Republic of Doyle
2010
6.7A Canadian actor on an American police procedural TV series returns home after a public meltdown. Partnering with his police detective friend, he tries to use his acting experience to solve real crimes.
Carter
2018
6.3An ex-cop turned private eye, Marissa Wong, ends up being forced to work with Sarah Winchester, an inexperienced young woman fresh out of university. Each episode, the unlikely duo to solve their client’s cases, which often end up being far more dangerous than they first appear.
Wong & Winchester
2023
NRIn the thick of the Reagan '80s, the daughter of two happily married Communists struggles between fitting in at a new high school and upholding her family's outdated beliefs.
The Communist's Daughter
2021
Behind the camera
NRStruggling young rideshare driver Tyler falls under the influence of a self-styled entrepreneur, JP who offers him a future in his handheld massager business. But what appears to be a dream opportunity unravels as JP pulls Tyler into a violent downward spiral.
Apparatus
—
NRStruggling young rideshare driver Tyler falls under the influence of a self-styled entrepreneur, JP who offers him a future in his handheld massager business. But what appears to be a dream opportunity unravels as JP pulls Tyler into a violent downward spiral.
Apparatus
—
NRStruggling young rideshare driver Tyler falls under the influence of a self-styled entrepreneur, JP who offers him a future in his handheld massager business. But what appears to be a dream opportunity unravels as JP pulls Tyler into a violent downward spiral.
Apparatus
—
NRA young woman explores her sexual autonomy through a series of discomfiting encounters.
I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain
2019
NRA young woman explores her sexual autonomy through a series of discomfiting encounters.
I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain
2019
The morning after hosting a drug-fueled house party, Gracie wakes to learn her ex-boyfriend Feller is dealing with pseudo-friend Kree and roommate Tanya had her precious heirloom pendant stolen. Gracie embarks to retrieve the necklace, meeting friends and acquaintances along the way in a languorous, darkly humourous study of the precarious transition between youth and adulthood.
Diamond Day
2015
The morning after hosting a drug-fueled house party, Gracie wakes to learn her ex-boyfriend Feller is dealing with pseudo-friend Kree and roommate Tanya had her precious heirloom pendant stolen. Gracie embarks to retrieve the necklace, meeting friends and acquaintances along the way in a languorous, darkly humourous study of the precarious transition between youth and adulthood.
Diamond Day
2015
The morning after hosting a drug-fueled house party, Gracie wakes to learn her ex-boyfriend Feller is dealing with pseudo-friend Kree and roommate Tanya had her precious heirloom pendant stolen. Gracie embarks to retrieve the necklace, meeting friends and acquaintances along the way in a languorous, darkly humourous study of the precarious transition between youth and adulthood.
Diamond Day
2015