Sheila Vand

Acting

Sheila Vand

Born 1985-04-27 · 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.

Acting credits

Argo poster
7.3

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.

Argo

2012

Triple Frontier poster
6.3

Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.

Triple Frontier

2019

The Rental poster
5.5

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.

The Rental

2020

Prospect poster
6.2

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.

Prospect

2018

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot poster
6.3

Stuck in a rut, reporter Kim Baker decides to shake things up by leaving her desk job in New York and taking a dangerous assignment in Afghanistan. Far from home and completely out of her comfort zone, a culture-shocked Kim befriends an adventurous reporter Tanya Vanderpoel, a stern Colonel, and a charming photojournalist to help her navigate this crazy new world.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

2016

XX poster
5.0

This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.

XX

2017

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night poster
6.8

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.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

2014

68 Kill poster
5.9

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.

68 Kill

2017

The Wave poster
6.0

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.

The Wave

2019

Holidays poster
4.9

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.

Holidays

2016

Girlfriend poster
6.1

A young man with Down Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.

Girlfriend

2010

She's Missing poster
5.0

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.

She's Missing

2019

Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero poster
5.2

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.

Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero

2016

Land of Dreams poster
4.3

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.

Land of Dreams

2022

We the Animals poster
6.5

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.

We the Animals

2018

Camino poster
4.9

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.

Camino

2016

No artwork available
NR

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.

This is Caroline

2012

Aardvark poster
4.7

The aardvark has evolved to be one of a kind. You could say the same of Josh Norman.

Aardvark

2018

In Her Place poster
NR

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.

In Her Place

2015

Bold Native poster
7.1

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.

Bold Native

2010

Viper Club poster
5.5

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.

Viper Club

2018

White Echo poster
4.9

Five women in their thirties examine their own power in life.

White Echo

2019

Women Who Kill poster
4.9

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.

Women Who Kill

2016

Hairy poster
6.0

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.

Hairy

2011