Sarah Snook

Acting

Sarah Snook

Born 1987-12-01 · Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Sarah Ruth Snook (born 1 December 1987) is an Australian actress. She is best known for her starring role as Shiv Roy in the HBO drama series Succession (2018–2023), for which she won two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. Snook received three AACTA Awards for her leading roles in the films Sisters of War (2010), Predestination (2014), and Memoir of a Snail (2024). She also appeared in the films Not Suitable for Children (2012), These Final Hours (2013), Jessabelle (2014), The Dressmaker (2015), Steve Jobs (2015), The Glass Castle (2017), An American Pickle (2020), Pieces of a Woman (2020), Run Rabbit Run (2023), and The Beanie Bubble (2023). On stage, Snook starred in the West End adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray (2024), for which she won both the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress and the Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Play for its Broadway transfer. Her other theatre credits include roles in King Lear (2009), The Master Builder(2016) and Saint Joan (2018). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sarah Snook, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Predestination poster
7.4

Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

Predestination

2014

Memoir of a Snail poster
8.1

Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortunes and everyday life.

Memoir of a Snail

2024

Steve Jobs poster
6.8

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

Steve Jobs

2015

Winchester poster
5.9

San Jose, California, 1906. Isolated in her labyrinthine mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes that she is being haunted by the souls of those killed by the guns manufactured by her company.

Winchester

2018

The Dressmaker poster
7.0

In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.

The Dressmaker

2015

The Glass Castle poster
7.1

A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.

The Glass Castle

2017

Sleeping Beauty poster
5.4

A haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young University student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire.

Sleeping Beauty

2011

The Beanie Bubble poster
6.4

Ty was a frustrated toy salesman until his collaboration with three women turned his stuffed animals into a defining '90s trend. This behind-the-scenes look at history's biggest toy craze is a wild story about what—and who—is valued in this world.

The Beanie Bubble

2023

Pieces of a Woman poster
7.0

When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.

Pieces of a Woman

2020

An American Pickle poster
5.8

An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can’t connect with.

An American Pickle

2020

Holding the Man poster
7.7

Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years in the face of everything life threw at it – the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.

Holding the Man

2015

Jessabelle poster
5.4

A young woman recuperating at her father's run-down home after a tragic accident soon encounters a terrifying presence with a connection to her long-deceased mother.

Jessabelle

2014

Run Rabbit Run poster
5.5

Sarah is a fertility doctor with a firm understanding of the cycle of life. When she is forced to make sense of the increasingly strange behavior of her young daughter Mia, she must challenge her own beliefs and confront a ghost from her past.

Run Rabbit Run

2024

Oddball poster
6.9

An eccentric chicken farmer, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog Oddball to protect a penguin sanctuary from fox attacks in an attempt to reunite his family and save their seaside town.

Oddball

2015

These Final Hours poster
6.5

With the end of the world only hours away, self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing father. This simple act sets James on a path to redemption.

These Final Hours

2014

David Stratton: A Cinematic Life poster
4.6

A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us from his boyhood cinema experience of Australia in England, where he saw the first images of this strange and exotic landscape via the medium of film, to his migration to Australia as a ‘ten pound pom’ in 1963 and onto his present day reflections on the iconic themes that run through our cinematic legacy. All of this reflects a passionate engagement in a uniquely Australian medium. Parallel and at the heart of the series is the story of an industry whose growing pains David has witnessed over a lifetime. Alongside David, the protagonists of this history are the giants of Australian cinema – both behind the camera and in front of it.

David Stratton: A Cinematic Life

2017

Brothers' Nest poster
6.6

With their Mother dying of cancer, intent on changing her will to benefit her new husband before she dies, two brothers go to extreme and deadly lengths to protect their inheritance from being signed away before it’s too late.

Brothers' Nest

2018

Nightingale Floor poster
NR

A short film collaboration between string composer and musician Sallie Campbell, Aquarius Films and director David Barker to help raise funds and awareness for the tragic plight of the Orangutans.

Nightingale Floor

2015

Seen poster
NR

Ryan attempts to direct a scene already in progress.

Seen

2021

Not Suitable For Children poster
5.3

A young playboy who learns he has one month until he becomes infertile sets out to procreate as much as possible.

Not Suitable For Children

2012

Kangaroo Valley poster
7.0

Journey to a secret valley in Australia, where a nervous baby kangaroo named Mala faces hungry dingoes and winter snows in this coming-of-age adventure.

Kangaroo Valley

2022

No artwork available
7.0

You die. But your identity keeps on living. Crystal and James fell in love in an online virtual world but have never met. When James dies mysteriously Crystal travels to see him for the first time - dead. But some residue of James is still alive online.

Crystal Jam

2010

The Poet and the Plant poster
5.0

A poet loves his new houseplant so much he kills it.

The Poet and the Plant

2020

Carbon: The Unauthorised Biography poster
6.1

With Carbon in the news every day, you might think you know everything about her. But you’d be wrong. This spectacular and surprisingly unorthodox documentary reveals the paradoxical story of the element that builds all life, and yet may end it all. Narrated in first person by  Sarah Snook (Succession), Carbon tells of her birth in the violent core of an exploding star and of turbulent sagas through the fabric of our evolving Earth. Accompanied by celebrated scientists, unique animations and a stunning orchestral score, Carbon reminds us of our humble participation in the most extraordinary story in the universe. 

Carbon: The Unauthorised Biography

2022