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Sydney White

Sydney White is a 2007 American teen comedy directed by Joe Nussbaum, starring Amanda Bynes as a freshman who retells Snow White with seven outcasts in college Greek life.

Sye (సై) (2004 film)

Sye (సై, Challenge) is a 2004 Telugu sports action film directed by S. S. Rajamouli, starring Nithiin and Genelia D'Souza, in which rival college groups unite to win back their ground from a gangster through a rugby match; it won four Nandi Awards.

Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (సై రా నరసింహా రెడ్డి)

Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (సై రా నరసింహా రెడ్డి), also styled Syeraa Narasimha Reddy, is a 2019 Telugu biographical epic action film directed by Surender Reddy, produced by Ram Charan, starring Chiranjeevi as 1846 rebel Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy; his 151st film, released 2 October 2019.

Syed Sohel

Syed Sohel Ryan (born 1991), also iSmart Sohel, Indian Telugu actor and playback singer; Krishnaveni serial, third place and ₹25 lakh exit from Bigg Boss Telugu 4, lead films Mr. Pregnant and Lucky Lakshman.

Sylar

Sylar, born Gabriel Gray, is the main antagonist of the NBC superhero drama Heroes (2006–2010), played by Zachary Quinto, a serial killer who steals powers from people with superhuman abilities.

Sylvester McCoy

Sylvester McCoy (born 1943, Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith) is a Scottish actor, the Seventh Doctor in Doctor Who (1987-1989, 1996 TV movie, Big Finish audio) and Radagast the Brown in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy; distinct from the disco singer Sylvester.

Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone (born 1946, New York City), also called Sly, is an American actor-writer-director who created Rocky Balboa and John Rambo, won a Best Picture Oscar with Rocky (1976), built the Rambo and Expendables franchises, and now stars in Tulsa King.

Sylvester the Cat

Sylvester the Cat is a tuxedo cat in Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes cartoons who chases Tweety Bird and rarely catches him, with 103 shorts from 1945.

Sylvestra Le Touzel

Sylvestra Le Touzel (born 1958) is a British actress known for Fanny Price in the 1983 BBC Mansfield Park, Mike Leigh films including Happy-Go-Lucky, The Crown, and National Theatre stage work.

Sylvia Hoeks

Sylvia Hoeks (Sylvia Gertrudis Martyna Hoeks), Dutch actress born 1983 in Maarheeze, known for Luv in Blade Runner 2049, Queen Kane in See, a 2007 Golden Calf for Duska, and upcoming Lords of War.

Sylvia Kristel

Sylvia Maria Kristel (1952–2012), Dutch actress famous as the title role of Emmanuelle (1974); over fifty films, Hollywood years, later painter and memoirist; died of cancer in Amsterdam.

Sylvia Miles

Sylvia Miles (1924–2019), American character actress born Sylvia Scheinwald, earned two Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominations for brief roles in Midnight Cowboy and Farewell, My Lovely, and was a famed Manhattan partygoer.

Sylvia Scarlett

Sylvia Scarlett is a 1935 RKO comedy-drama directed by George Cukor, the first of four Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant pairings, in which Hepburn disguises herself as a boy; a notorious flop later embraced as a queer cult classic.

Sylvia Sidney

Sylvia Sidney (Sophia Kosow, 1910-1999), American actress of stage and screen; Paramount star of 1930s Depression dramas like Fury and Street Scene, Oscar-nominated for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, later in Beetlejuice and Mars Attacks!.

Sylvia Syms

Sylvia Syms (1934–2023) was an English actress known for Ice Cold in Alex (1958), Victim (1961), and Margaret Thatcher in Thatcher: The Final Days, working into her eighties.

Sylvia Young Theatre School

Sylvia Young Theatre School (SYTS), founded 1981 in Drury Lane by Sylvia Young OBE, is an independent co-ed performing arts school in Marylebone, London, with a split week: academics Monday–Wednesday, vocational training Thursday–Friday; alumni include Amy Winehouse, Billie Piper, and Dua Lipa.

Sylvie (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Sylvie (Sylvie Laufeydottir) is a female Loki variant played by Sophia Di Martino in the Disney+ MCU series Loki (2021-2023). Kidnapped as a child by the TVA, she hides in apocalypses, kills He Who Remains, and opens the multiverse.

Sylvie's Love

Sylvie's Love is a 2020 romantic drama written and directed by Eugene Ashe, starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha as lovers in 1957-1962 Harlem; it premiered at Sundance 2020 and streams on Amazon Prime Video.

Sym-Bionic Titan

Sym-Bionic Titan is an American animated series created by Genndy Tartakovsky, Paul Rudish, and Bryan Andrews for Cartoon Network, premiering September 17, 2010. Aliens Ilana, Lance, and Octus combine into a giant robot; canceled in 2011 after one 20-episode season, reportedly for lack of a toy license.

Symbiote (comics)

A symbiote (Klyntar) is a fictional alien life-form in Marvel Comics that bonds with a host as a living costume, producing Venom and Carnage after beginning as Spider-Man's 1984 black suit.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (복수는 나의 것)

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (복수는 나의 것, Boksuneun naui geot) is Park Chan-wook's 2002 South Korean film, first of the Vengeance Trilogy, about a deaf laid-off worker whose kidnapping plan for his sister's kidney transplant spirals into a revenge chain.

Sympathy for the Devil (2023 film)

Sympathy for the Devil is a 2023 neo-noir thriller directed by Yuval Adler, written by Luke Paradise, starring Nicolas Cage as a gunman who forces Joel Kinnaman's expectant father to drive him out of Las Vegas; released July 28, 2023 by RLJE Films.

Symphogear (戦姫絶唱シンフォギア)

Symphogear (戦姫絶唱シンフォギア) is a Japanese original TV anime franchise by Noriyasu Agematsu and Akifumi Kaneko, produced by Satelight, first aired January 6, 2012. Five seasons (2012-2019, 65 episodes) follow girls in Symphogear armor fighting the Noise by singing.

Synchronic (film)

Synchronic is a 2019 American sci-fi thriller by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead starring Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan as New Orleans paramedics investigating a designer drug.

Syncopy Inc.

Syncopy Inc. (Syncopy Films) is the British-American production company founded in 2001 by Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas, named after syncopation; it produced the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Oppenheimer, and The Odyssey (2026).

Syndromes and a Century (แสงศตวรรษ)

Syndromes and a Century (แสงศตวรรษ, Sang Sattawat) is a 2006 Thai art film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, his fourth feature, a two-part hospital story inspired by his physician parents, banned from Thai release after censors demanded four cuts.

Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York is Charlie Kaufman's 2008 directorial debut, a comedy-drama starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as theater director Caden Cotard, who builds a life-size replica of New York in a warehouse; released by Sony Pictures Classics on October 24, 2008.

Synnøve Macody Lund

Synnøve Macody Lund (born 1976, Stord, Norway) is a Norwegian actress, author, and former film critic. Known for Diana Brown in Headhunters (2011), Ran Jutul in Ragnarok (2020–2023), Gabriella Grane in The Girl in the Spider's Web, and Cecilia Pederson in Saw X (2023).

Syriana

Syriana (2005) is a geopolitical thriller written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, loosely based on CIA officer Robert Baer's memoir See No Evil. George Clooney won Best Supporting Actor; Warner Bros. distributed the four-strand oil-industry drama.

Syril Karn

Syril Karn is a fictional Imperial civil servant in Star Wars' Andor, played by Kyle Soller; a Pre-Mor deputy inspector whose pursuit of Cassian Andor drives the plot, he becomes Dedra Meero's partner and dies in the Ghorman Massacre.