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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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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).

Shiri Appleby

Shiri Freda Appleby (born 1978) is an American actress and director from Los Angeles, known as Liz Parker on Roswell, Cate Cassidy on Life Unexpected, and Rachel Goldberg on UnREAL, later directing episodes of Roswell, New Mexico, UnREAL, and The Wonder Years.

Shirley Anne Field

Shirley Anne Field (Shirley Broomfield, 1936–2023) was an English actress of the British New Wave, known for The Entertainer, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alfie, My Beautiful Laundrette, and Santa Barbara.

Shirley Booth

Shirley Booth (born Thelma Booth Ford, 1898–1992) was an American stage, film, and television actress; she won a Tony and Oscar for Come Back, Little Sheba and starred in TV's Hazel (1961–1966), winning two Emmys.

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.

Shirley Douglas

Shirley Jean Douglas (1934-2020), Canadian actress and activist, daughter of medicare founder Tommy Douglas and mother of Kiefer Sutherland; Order of Canada officer, Canada Health Coalition spokesperson, Gemini winner for Shadow Lake.

Shirley Eaton

Shirley Eaton (born 12 January 1937, Edgware, Middlesex) is an English former actress, the 'Golden Girl' Jill Masterson of Goldfinger (1964), painted gold on film; not to be confused with other Shirley Eatons such as obituary subjects.

Shirley Hemphill

Shirley Hemphill (1947–1999) was an American stand-up comedian and actress from Asheville, North Carolina, known as waitress Shirley Wilson on ABC's What's Happening!! (1976–1979) and What's Happening Now!!, and as star of the short-lived 1980 sitcom One in a Million.

Shirley Henderson

Shirley Henderson (born 1965) is a Scottish actress from Kincardine, Fife, known as Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter, Jude in Bridget Jones, Gail in Trainspotting, and Babu Frik in Star Wars; Olivier Award winner 2018.

Shirley Jones

Shirley Jones (Shirley Mae Jones, born March 31, 1934) is an American singer-actress, star of the film musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, and The Music Man, Oscar winner for Elmer Gantry, and television's Shirley Partridge on The Partridge Family with stepson David Cassidy.

Shirley Knight

Shirley Knight (Shirley Enola Knight, 1936-2020), American actress from Goessel, Kansas; two Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominations, three Emmys from eight nominations, 1976 Tony, 1996 Golden Globe for Indictment: The McMartin Trial.

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.

Shohreh Aghdashloo (شهره آغداشلو)

Shohreh Aghdashloo (شهره آغداشلو), born 1952 in Tehran, is an Iranian-American actress, a 1970s star of Iranian cinema who later earned an Oscar nomination for House of Sand and Fog, an Emmy for House of Saddam, and played Chrisjen Avasarala in The Expanse.

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).

Sian Blake

Sian Blake (Sian Samantha Blake, 1972–2015) was an English actress who played Frankie Pierre in 56 EastEnders episodes (1996–97); she and her two sons were murdered in Erith, London, by partner Arthur Simpson-Kent, who received a whole life sentence in 2016.

Sian Clifford

Sian Clifford (born 1982, London) is an English RADA-trained actress, BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated for playing Claire in Fleabag; later roles include Quiz, Unstable, The Ballad of Wallis Island.

Sian Gibson

Sian Gibson is a Welsh actress and comedy writer, co-writer and co-lead of BBC One's Peter Kay's Car Share as Kayleigh Kitson, BAFTA-nominated, later co-creating and starring in The Power of Parker.

Siân Phillips

Siân Phillips (born Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips, 1933) is a Welsh actress, not the violinist Siân Philipps or the Canadian psychologist; known for Livia in I, Claudius (BAFTA), Dune's Reverend Mother, DBE 2016.

Sian Reese-Williams

Sian Reese-Williams, Welsh actress born 1981 in Amman Valley, known as Gennie Walker in Emmerdale, DI Cadi John in Hidden, Caryl in The Light in the Hall, and Thatcher in Y Sŵn.

Sibel Kekilli

Sibel Kekilli, born in 1980, is a German actress whose debut in Fatih Akin's Head-On won the 2004 Golden Bear; she played Shae in Game of Thrones.

Sid Haig

Sid Haig, born Sidney Eddie Mosesian (1939–2019), was an American character actor who played villains in 1960s and 1970s exploitation films and Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie's horror films.

Sid James

Sid James, born Solomon Joel Cohen and also known as Sidney James, was a South African-born comedy actor known for the Carry On films and Hancock's Half Hour.

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.

Sidney Blackmer

Sidney Blackmer (Sidney Alderman Blackmer, 1895–1973) was an American actor from Salisbury, North Carolina; Tony winner for Come Back, Little Sheba, ten-time portrayer of Theodore Roosevelt, and Roman Castevet in Rosemary's Baby.

Sidney Fox

Sidney Fox (born Sidney Liefer, 1907–1942) was an American stage and film actress of the early 1930s, a WAMPAS Baby Star discovered by Carl Laemmle Jr., who debuted in Bad Sister opposite Bette Davis and died at 34 in Beverly Hills.

Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier (1927–2022), Bahamian-American actor, director, and civil rights activist; first Black man to win the Best Actor Oscar (Lilies of the Field, 1963) and 1968's top US box-office draw.

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Sidse Babett Knudsen (born 1968, Copenhagen) is a Danish actress trained at Paris's Théatre de l'Ombre; screen debut Let's Get Lost (1997). Known for Borgen's Birgitte Nyborg, Westworld's Theresa Cullen, a César for Courted, and a Bodil for Sons (Vogter).

Sienna Guillory

Sienna Guillory (Sienna Tiggy Guillory), English actress and former model born 1975 in Kettering, England; known as Jill Valentine in the Resident Evil films, Arya in Eragon, and roles in The Time Machine, Love Actually, Fortitude, and Lucky Man.