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Sheila McCarthy

Sheila McCarthy is a Canadian stage, film and television actress, singer and dancer, best known for playing Polly Vandersma in the feature film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, as well as supporting character Sarah Hamoudi (Cunningham) in the television series Little Mosque on the Prairie. She's a graduate in Theatre and Art History from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. In her career, she's won 2 Genie Awards (film), 2 Gemini Awards (television), and 2 Dora Awards (theater), along with multiple nominations.

Known For: Acting

Born: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1956-01-01

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1986	The Marriage Bed	Lynn Reailly	70
2	1987	I've Heard the Mermaids Singing	Polly Vandersma	58
3	1989	George's Island	Miss Birdwood	65
4	1989	Friends, Lovers, & Lunatics	Kathy	20
5	1990	Die Hard 2	Samantha 'Sam' Coleman	70
6	1990	White Room	Zelda	50
7	1990	Pacific Heights	Liz Hamilton	63
8	1991	The Soulmates in the Gift of Light	(voice)	50
9	1991	Paradise	Sally Pike	62
10	1991	Stepping Out	Andy	59
11	1992	A Private Matter	Diane Callaghan	48
12	1993	The Lotus Eaters	Diana Kingswood	70
13	1994	The Biggest Little Ticket	The Troll	0
14	1995	The Possession of Michael D.	Jenny	48
15	1995	The Awakening	Nancy	48
16	1997	Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework	Jesse's Mom	48
17	1999	You Know My Name	Mrs. Lynn	45
18	2000	Custody of the Heart	Alice	42
19	2001	Haven	Eva	68
20	2001	I Was a Rat	Mrs. Tapscrew	0
21	2002	Lathe of Heaven	Penny	59
22	2002	The Rats	Miss Paige	55
23	2004	Geraldine's Fortune	Tina Larose	10
24	2006	Cow Belles	Fran Walker	55
25	2012	Antiviral	Dev Harvey	60
26	2021	Stroke of Fate	Shirley	0
27		Love Is the Monster		0
28	2014	Algonquin	Rita	70
29		The Well	Gabriel	0
30	2004	Being Julia	Grace Dexter	65
31	2014	A Fighting Man	Rose O'Connor	54
32	2016	Brace for Impact	Faradee Gilchrist	54
33	2018	Still/Born	Sheila	58
34	2019	An Assortment of Christmas Tales in No Particular Order	Ellen	0
35	2021	The Middle Man	Mrs. Stout	60
36	2022	Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3	Hologram Alien Scout	74
37	2022	Christmas in Rockwell	Juniper	50
38		The Voices of Our Mother	Harriet	0
39		Dancing on the Elephant	Nora	0
40		Surfacing	Dawn	0
41	1985	Love and Larceny	Mary Bigley	0
42	1986	9B	Heather	0
43	1986	Really Weird Tales	Ellie Hutchins (segment "Cursed With Charisma")	60
44	1988	Much Ado About Nothing	Margaret	0
45	1990	Beautiful Dreamers	Molly Jessop	52
46	1990	Bright Angel	Nina	48
47	1990	Back to the Beanstalk	Garbanza	0
48	1991	Montreal Stories	Ann Stuart	50
49	1992	Beethoven Lives Upstairs	Sophie	72
50	1992	Liza Minnelli - Live from Radio City Music Hall	Self	70
51	1993	Journey to the Planets	Oracle (voice)	0
52	1994	Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills	Jill Lansing	61
53	1996	House Arrest	Gwenna Krupp	53
54	1996	The Care and Handling of Roses	Carol Doster	0
55	1998	Dead Husbands	Jane Armitage	48
56	2000	Virtual Mom	Holly	50
57	2001	Rare Birds	Claire	54
58	2002	Duct Tape Forever	Easterbrook (uncredited)	67
59	2003	Full-Court Miracle	Mrs. Klein	56
60	2004	Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche	Polly Vandersma (archive footage)	50
61	2004	Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen	Mrs. Gerard	57
62	2004	The Day After Tomorrow	Judith	65
63	2005	Bailey's Billion$	Peggy Delaney	58
64	2007	The Stone Angel	Doris	53
65	2007	Breakfast with Scot	Miss Patterson (uncredited)	63
66	2009	Year of the Carnivore	Mrs. Smalls	50
67	2014	Dear Viola	Peggy	65
68	2016	Ice Girls	Aunt Ginger	65
69	2016	Milton's Secret	Luz	51
70	2017	Cardinals	Valerie Walker	56
71	2017	Considering Love and Other Magic	Veronica	65
72	2018	Level 16	Mrs. Denison	68
73	2019	Isabelle	Ann Pelway	52
74	2019	Christmas 9 to 5	Rose Stark	68
75	2019	The Christmas Club	Miss Maggie	63
76	2020	Anything for Jackson	Audrey Walsh	67
77	2020	The Broken Hearts Gallery	Cheryl Gulliver	72
78	2020	Happy Place	Joyce	50
79	2021	Like a House on Fire	Katherine	72
80	2022	Women Talking	Greta	69
81	2025	All the Lost Ones	Dawn	100

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1985	The Ray Bradbury Theater	Francine	69
2	1985	The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Debra (Sarah) Hollister	72
3	1986	Four on the Floor		60
4	1995	A Woman of Independent Means	Totsie	100
5	1998	Emily of New Moon	Laura Murray	88
6	1998	More Tales of the City	Mildred	75
7	1998	Bad Dog		60
8	1999	Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke	Tammy	20
9	2000	Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse	Elizabeth the Emotional Pig (voice)	70
10	2002	Puppets Who Kill		65
11	2004	This Is Wonderland		90
12	2007	Little Mosque on the Prairie	Sarah Hamoudi	67
13	2010	Rookie Blue	Leigh Senett	76
14	2012	Saving Hope	Violet Devonshire	70
15	2013	Orphan Black	Connie Hendrix	78
16	2013	Orphan Black	Connie Hendrix (voice)	78
17	2015	Whatever, Linda	Sheila Hardy	0
18	2016	Private Eyes	Shirl Glinski	73
19	2016	Conviction	Dr. Jane Soto	68
20	2017	Star Trek: Discovery	All-Mother	71
21	2017	The Good Doctor	Rose Babcock	85
22	2018	The Detail	Helen Mailer	64
23	2019	The Umbrella Academy	Agnes	85
24	2020	Nurses	Phillis Bruner	73