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American actors: 2000s onward

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Sherri Saum

Sherri Saum (born 1974, Dayton, Ohio) is an American actress known for Lena Adams Foster on The Fosters, Vanessa Hart on Sunset Beach, Keri Reynolds on One Life to Live, In Treatment, Rescue Me, and Locke & Key, plus a 2024 Good Trouble directing debut.

Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf (Shia Saide LaBeouf), American actor born 1986 in Los Angeles; Disney's Even Stevens and Daytime Emmy 2003, Transformers and Indiana Jones leads, BAFTA Rising Star 2008, later indie films, Honey Boy screenplay, and legal controversies.

Shiloh Fernandez

Shiloh Fernandez is an American actor from Ukiah, California, known for Evil Dead (2013), Red Riding Hood (2011), and The East (2013), also a producer and co-writer of The Birthday Cake and cast in Nolan's The Odyssey (2026).

Shirley Chen

Shirley Chen is an American actress, Harvard '22, known for Krista (SXSW Best Acting in a Narrative Short), Beast Beast, Dìdi (Vivian Wang, Sundance ensemble jury prize), and as Joan Huang in Amy Wang's 2026 body-horror satire Slanted.

Shiva Rose

Shiva Rose (Shiva Rose Afshar / McDermott), born 1969 in Santa Monica, is an Iranian-American actress known for David & Layla (2005), later founder of The Local Rose blog and Shiva Rose skincare.

Shondrella Avery

Shondrella Dupre Avery, American actress and producer born 1971 in Los Angeles; played LaFawnduh in Napoleon Dynamite (2004) and Candy Taylor on One on One and Cuts; CEO of Glass Slipper Pictures and sickle cell disease advocate.

Shoniqua Shandai

Shoniqua Shandai (born 1989) is an American actress, singer, and director known as Angie Wilson on Prime Video's Harlem, a 2024 NAACP Image Award nominee, with film roles in Bodied and Sierra Burgess Is a Loser and singles including Something About You.

Shoshannah Stern

Shoshannah Stern (born 1980) is an American deaf actress, writer, and director from Walnut Creek, California, known for Jericho, Weeds, Supernatural, cocreating This Close, and directing Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (2025).

Siddiq Saunderson

Siddiq Saunderson is a Brooklyn-born American actor, Carnegie Mellon theatre graduate, best known as Dennis 'D-Love' Coles/Ghostface Killah in Hulu's Wu-Tang: An American Saga (2019-2023), with credits in Messiah, Boomerang, R#J, Kemba, and The Terror.

Sierra Capri

Sierra Capri (born 1998, Baltimore) is an American actress known for playing Monse Finnie, the lead of Netflix's On My Block (2018-2021); also American Skin (2019), Young. Wild. Free. (2023), and The Social Reckoning (2026).

Sierra McClain

Sierra Aylina McClain, American actress and singer born 1994 in Georgia; McClain Sisters member; known as Nessa in Empire, Tanya Clifton in Mindhunter, and Grace Ryder in 9-1-1: Lone Star (2020–2023), leaving before season 5 in a contract dispute.

Simon Helberg

Simon Helberg (born 1980, Los Angeles) is an American actor, comedian, and pianist, known as Howard Wolowitz on The Big Bang Theory and as Golden Globe-nominated pianist Cosme McMoon in Florence Foster Jenkins.

Simon Rex

Simon Rex (Simon Rex Cutright, born 1974) is an American actor, rapper, and comedian: MTV VJ from 1995, Dirt Nasty rap persona, Scary Movie 3–5, and Independent Spirit Award-winning star of Red Rocket (2021).

Simone Joy Jones

Simone Joy Jones (born 1999), also S!MONE, is an American actress and R&B singer; Broadway debut in The Miracle Worker (2010), Lisa Wilkes on Bel-Air (2022–2025), debut album Magnet (2024).

Simone Missick

Simone Missick (born Simone Cook), American actress from Detroit; played Misty Knight in Marvel's Luke Cage, The Defenders, and Iron Fist, and Judge Lola Carmichael in All Rise on CBS and OWN.

Sinclair Daniel

Sinclair Daniel (born 1997, New York) is an American actress, lead as Nella Rogers in Hulu's The Other Black Girl (2023) and Chris Winslow in Insidious: The Red Door, now starring as Parker in Peacock's The Copenhagen Test.

Sky Elobar

Sky Elobar, American character actor and former musician (Seventh House, Atlantic Records album 412), best known as Big Brayden in Jim Hosking's The Greasy Strangler and as Paul in Ebony & Ivory.

Skye P. Marshall

Skye P. Marshall (also Skye Marshall), American actress born 1981 in Chicago, Air Force veteran and Northeastern Illinois University graduate; stars as attorney Olympia Lawrence on CBS's Matlock (2024) opposite Kathy Bates, with roles in Good Sam, Black Lightning, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

Skylar Astin

Skylar Astin (Skylar Astin Lipstein), American actor and singer born 1987 in New York; original Broadway Georg in Spring Awakening, Jesse in Pitch Perfect, lead of Ground Floor, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, and So Help Me Todd.

Skyler Gisondo

Skyler Gisondo (born 1996, Palm Beach, Florida) is an American actor known for Santa Clarita Diet, The Righteous Gemstones, Booksmart, Licorice Pizza, Vacation, and Jimmy Olsen in Superman (2025).

Skyler Samuels

Skyler Rose Samuels (born 1994, Los Angeles) is an American actress known as Chloe King, Grace Gardner in Scream Queens, the Frost sisters in The Gifted, and Hallmark's young Aurora Teagarden; Stanford graduate, married to Lucas Till.

Sofia Black-D'Elia

Sofia Black-D'Elia, American actress born 1991 in Clifton, New Jersey; known for Skins (US), The Night Of, The Mick, Your Honor, and lead role in Single Drunk Female; distinct from Italian actress Sofia D'Elia.

Sofia Carson

Sofia Carson (Sofía Daccarett Char, born 1993) is an American actress and singer, Evie in Disney's Descendants, star of Netflix hits Purple Hearts and Carry-On, and UNICEF ambassador.

Sofia Hasmik

Sofia Hasmik (born 1991) is a first-generation Armenian-American actress known as Chrissy Beppo on Superman & Lois (2021–2024) and Dr. Nazely Toomarian on The Pitt.

Sofia Vassilieva (София Владимировна Васильева)

Sofia Vladimirovna Vassilieva (София Владимировна Васильева), American actress born 1992 in Minneapolis; child star of Eloise, Ariel DuBois on Medium, Kate Fitzgerald in My Sister's Keeper, Lara in Looking for Alaska.

Sonequa Martin-Green

Sonequa Martin-Green (born Sonequa Martin, 1985, Russellville, Alabama) is an American actress known as Sasha on The Walking Dead and Michael Burnham on Star Trek: Discovery, the first Black female lead of Star Trek; recent work includes My Dead Friend Zoe and Boston Blue.

Soni Bringas

Soni Bringas, also credited as Soni Nicole Bringas, is an American actress and dancer born 2002 in Portland, Oregon, known for playing Ramona Gibbler on Netflix's Fuller House (2016–2020) and for earlier dance work.

Sophia Bush

Sophia Bush (born 1982, Pasadena) is an American actress and activist, best known as Brooke Davis on One Tree Hill, Detective Erin Lindsay on Chicago P.D., and for I am a voter, Union Heritage Ventures, and her podcast Work in Progress.

Sophia Lillis

Sophia Lillis (born 2002), Brooklyn-born American actress, breakout as Beverly Marsh in Stephen King's It (2017); roles include Sharp Objects, I Am Not Okay With This, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Asteroid City, and Kojima's OD.

Sophia Tatum

Sophia Tatum, American actress (born 1999 per IMDb; some databases say 1997), daughter of actors Stacy Haiduk and Bradford Tatum. Known for Sil in Samaritan (2022), Racer Chick in F9: The Fast Saga (2021), Agent Drake on Riverdale, and Jenny Tuffield in I Am Not Okay with This.