Kate Lyn Sheil

Acting

Kate Lyn Sheil

Born 1985-06-13 · Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

Kate Lyn Sheil is an actress and writer, known for You're Next (2011), Equals (2015) and Green (2011). She has a BFA in Acting from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and studied acting for four years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, under Anna Strasberg, Geoffrey Horne, and Robert Castle.

Acting credits

You're Next poster
6.6

When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

You're Next

2013

Equals poster
6.1

A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.

Equals

2015

V/H/S poster
6.1

When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.

V/H/S

2012

The Sacrament poster
6.0

Two journalists set out to document their friend's journey to reunite with his estranged sister. They track her to an undisclosed location where they are welcomed into the remote world of "Eden Parish," a self-sustained rural utopia composed of nearly two hundred members and overseen by a mysterious leader known only as "Father." It quickly becomes evident to the newcomers that this paradise may not be as it seems. Eden Parish harbors a twisted secret. What started as just another documentary shoot soon becomes a fight for survival.

The Sacrament

2014

Thank You for Your Service poster
6.6

A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.

Thank You for Your Service

2017

Brigsby Bear poster
7.1

Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.

Brigsby Bear

2017

She Dies Tomorrow poster
5.1

Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.

She Dies Tomorrow

2020

The Seeding poster
5.1

When a hiker gets lost in the desert, a gang of feral children propelled by haunting legacies traps him in a sadistic battle for survival with a frightening endgame.

The Seeding

2024

Buster's Mal Heart poster
6.1

An eccentric mountain man on the run from the local sheriff recalls the mysterious events that brought him to his present fugitive state.

Buster's Mal Heart

2017

The Sound of Silence poster
5.8

A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.

The Sound of Silence

2019

Listen Up Philip poster
5.8

Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.

Listen Up Philip

2014

Golden Exits poster
5.8

An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.

Golden Exits

2018

Queen of Earth poster
6.0

Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.

Queen of Earth

2015

Kendra and Beth poster
6.6

A dark comedy about the only female employee in the warehouse of a sausage company who forms an unlikely bond with a stranger that throws both their lives into disarray, leaving them forever changed.

Kendra and Beth

2021

Autoerotic poster
4.1

Four interconnected Chicago couples explore the boundaries of self-pleasure and sexual exploration.

Autoerotic

2011

The Unspeakable Act poster
5.6

17-year-old Jackie is in distress as her older brother Matthew gets his first girlfriend and prepares for college. Though Matthew does not share her incestuous desire, Jackie fights the intrusion of reality on her idyllic childhood world.

The Unspeakable Act

2013

The Color Wheel poster
6.3

JR, an aspiring news-anchor, forces her younger brother Colin to embark on a road trip to move her belongings out of her professor-turned-lover’s place. Traveling through New England, they uncomfortably run into old school-mates or revisit familial history from which they have long since diverged.

The Color Wheel

2012

Sun Don't Shine poster
5.2

Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.

Sun Don't Shine

2013

Kiss Kiss Fingerbang poster
5.8

A nice guy discovers his dark side when his girlfriend reveals her secret weakness.

Kiss Kiss Fingerbang

2015

Hellaware poster
5.2

Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. During a drug-fueled wormhole through the annals of YouTube, Nate discovers his next subjects when an arbitrary click lands him on a crude music video by the Young Torture Killaz—an Insane Clown Posse knock-off group of jaded Delaware teens with a lot to scream about—and the inspiration (and exploitation) flows

Hellaware

2013

Mountain Rest poster
4.8

After sequestering herself to a small mountain town, an aging actress calls her estranged daughter and granddaughter home for reconciliation and one final celebration.

Mountain Rest

2018

Knife Point poster
3.4

An evangelical family offers a traveling knife salesman a ride on their way through upstate New York.

Knife Point

2009

Talk About Your Dreams poster
NR

Locked out of her apartment and on a pill that turns anxiety-triggering situations into acceptable hallucinations, a virtual reality porn star and her dejected assassin get drunk, sing karaoke, and eat ramen.

Talk About Your Dreams

2016

Somebody Up There Likes Me poster
5.2

Thirty-five years in the life of Max, his best friend Sal and a woman they both adore, Lyla. The trio stumble through mandatory but seemingly unfulfilling entanglements, at weddings, funerals, hospitals, eateries, divorce courts and the tool shed. A deadpan fable about time sneaking up on and swerving right around us.

Somebody Up There Likes Me

2013

Behind the camera