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Selenis Leyva
Selenis Leyva, Afro-Latina actress of Cuban and Dominican descent born 1972 in Baracoa, Cuba, raised in the Bronx; best known as Gloria Mendoza on Orange Is the New Black, later Diary of a Future President and Lopez vs Lopez.
Self (film)
Self (2024) is a six-minute Pixar SparkShorts stop-motion/CGI short directed by Searit Huluf, released on Disney+ February 2, 2024, about a wooden doll's ill-fated wish to fit in, exploring self-sabotage and Ethiopian immigrant identity.
Self Made (miniseries)
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker is a four-part Netflix 2020 limited series starring Octavia Spencer as haircare pioneer Madam C.J. Walker, based on A'Lelia Bundles' biography On Her Own Ground, directed by Kasi Lemmons and DeMane Davis.
Self Reliance (film)
Self Reliance is a 2024 American comedy-thriller, Jake Johnson's feature directorial debut, also starring Anna Kendrick and Andy Samberg. Tommy must survive 30 days of assassins in a dark web game, safe only when not alone; premiered SXSW 2023, released by Neon and Hulu January 2024.
Self-referential humor
Self-referential humor, or meta humor, is comedy whose material points at itself, its own form, length, or telling. Seen in jokes, meta-theatre like Hamlet's play-within-a-play, and the George Burns sitcom.
Self/less
Self/less is a 2015 American sci-fi action thriller directed by Tarsem Singh, starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kingsley, about a dying billionaire whose consciousness is transferred into a body with a hidden past; released July 10, 2015 by Focus Features.
Selfie (TV series)
Selfie (TV series): 2014 ABC romantic comedy created by Emily Kapnek, loosely based on My Fair Lady/Pygmalion, starring Karen Gillan as influencer Eliza Dooley and John Cho as Henry Higgs; canceled November 7, 2014 after 13 episodes.
Selfiee
Selfiee is a 2023 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Raj Mehta, starring Akshay Kumar and Emraan Hashmi, remaking the 2019 Malayalam film Driving Licence; released 24 February 2023, it flopped with about ₹23.63 crore worldwide.
Selina Cadell
Selina Cadell (Selina Jane Cadell, born 1953, London) is an English actress and director, sister of Simon Cadell and granddaughter of Jean Cadell. Known for Mrs Tishell in Doc Martin, Miss Froy in The Lady Vanishes, and directing Eddie Izzard's Hamlet.
Selina Griffiths
Selina Griffiths (born 1969) is an English actress, daughter of Annette Crosbie, known for Janet in The Smoking Room, Pauline Maltby in Benidorm, and Connie in Cuckoo.
Selina Kyle (Batman Returns)
Selina Kyle as portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's Batman Returns (1992): a secretary to Max Shreck who, after being pushed out a window and revived by cats, becomes Catwoman, Batman's antagonist and love interest.
Selina Meyer
Selina Meyer is the fictional politician played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus in HBO's Veep (2012–2019): a Maryland senator, vice president, and accidental president, created by Armando Iannucci, never given a party, and famous for 'Did the President call?' and six straight Emmys.
Selling Sunset
Selling Sunset is a Netflix docusoap, premiering March 2019, following agents at the Oppenheim Group luxury brokerage in Los Angeles, run by twins Jason and Brett Oppenheim; nine seasons, an Emmy nomination, and spinoffs Selling Tampa and Selling the OC.
Selling the City (TV series)
Selling the City is a 2025 Netflix reality series, a Selling Sunset spinoff, following Douglas Elliman agents led by Eleonora Srugo in New York luxury real estate; one season of 8 episodes, canceled April 2026.
Selling the OC
Selling the OC is a Netflix reality series, a Selling Sunset spinoff following Jason and Brett Oppenheim's Newport Beach brokerage; four seasons, 32 episodes, 2022 to 2025, production paused in 2026.
Selma (film)
Selma (2014) is Ava DuVernay's historical drama starring David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting-rights marches; it won the Oscar for the song "Glory" and was the first theatrical feature with King as a main character.
Selma Blair
Selma Blair (Selma Blair Beitner), American actress born 1972 in Southfield, Michigan, star of Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde, and Hellboy; MS advocate since her 2018 diagnosis, author of Mean Baby.
Selma Diamond
Selma Diamond (1920-1985), Canadian-born American comedy writer and actress, wrote for Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour (Emmy-nominated) and played bailiff Selma Hacker on NBC's Night Court until her 1985 death from lung cancer.
Selvaraghavan (செல்வராகவன்)
Selvaraghavan (செல்வராகவன்), also credited as Sri Raghava in Telugu cinema, is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actor, son of Kasthuri Raja and elder brother of Dhanush, known for Kaadhal Konden, 7G Rainbow Colony, Pudhupettai, Aayirathil Oruvan and NGK.
Semantic Error (시맨틱 에러)
Semantic Error (시맨틱 에러) is a Korean BL campus romance by Jeo Soo-ri, adapted into a webtoon, anime, 2022 Watcha drama starring Park Seo-ham and Park Jae-chan, and a 2022 film.
Sembaruthi (செம்பருத்தி)
Sembaruthi (செம்பருத்தி), a Tamil romantic family drama on Zee Tamil (16 October 2017 to 31 July 2022, about 1,430 episodes), starring Priya Raman, Shabanaa Shajahan, and Karthik Raj, later VJ Agni, about rich matriarch Akhilandeshwari whose son Adithya secretly marries maid Parvathy.
Semi-Tough
Semi-Tough is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie, based on Dan Jenkins' novel and starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh.
Semiotics and sociology of the actor
The semiotics of the actor is a research tradition treating the stage actor as a producer of organized signs, begun by the Prague Linguistic Circle and surveyed again in 2025.
Sen Çal Kapımı
Sen Çal Kapımı (You Knock on My Door) is a Turkish romantic comedy series starring Hande Erçel and Kerem Bürsin, broadcast on FOX from 2020 to 2021.
Sena Kalıp
Sena Kalıp (Sena Mia), Turkish actress born 2000 in Istanbul, Özyeğin University industrial engineering graduate. Known as Parla Wallace in Bahar (2024), Elif in Ruhun Duymaz (2023), and Melek Toprak in Altı Üstü İstanbul (2026).
Send Help
Send Help (2026) is a Sam Raimi survival horror thriller for 20th Century Studios, starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien as colleagues stranded on a desert island after a plane crash. Released January 30, 2026; rated R; $74 million worldwide.
Send Me No Flowers
Send Me No Flowers (1964) is a Norman Jewison comedy, the third and final Doris Day–Rock Hudson–Tony Randall teaming, in which hypochondriac George Kimball, believing he is dying, seeks a replacement husband for wife Judy; based on the Barasch and Moore Broadway play.
Send Me to the Clouds
Send Me to the Clouds (送我上青云) is Teng Congcong's 2019 Chinese drama debut, starring and produced by Yao Chen as journalist Sheng Nan, who seeks desire and money before ovarian cancer surgery; a landmark but contested Chinese feminist film.
Sendhil Ramamurthy
Sendhil Ramamurthy (Sendhil Amithab Ramamurthy), American actor born 1974 in Chicago, known for Mohinder Suresh in Heroes, Jai Wilcox in Covert Affairs, Bloodwork in The Flash, Mohan in Never Have I Ever, and Nefertari Cobra in One Piece.
Senecan tragedy
Senecan tragedy is the body of ten Latin verse tragedies written in the first century AD by the Stoic philosopher Seneca, Nero's tutor, which shaped Renaissance drama across Europe.