# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sheila-vand
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:38:34.619Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sheila-vand"
name: "Sheila Vand"
slug: "sheila-vand"
description: "Sheila Vand is an American actress and performance artist. She is known for her role in Ben Affleck's 2012 Oscar-winning film Argo. Vand made her Broadway debut alongside Robin Williams in 2011 in the Pulitzer-nominated Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. She has worked with filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour on several projects, including Pashmaloo which premiered at the Berlinale in 2011 and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. She also has an ongoing collaboration with 2013 TED speaker Alexa Meade. Their photo series MILK: What Will You Make of Me? is on exhibit at the Gallery for Contemporary Photography Ingo Seufert, Munich, Germany and was also exhibited in the Grand Palais at Art Paris Art Fair. Vand is also the creator of experimental performance piece Sneaky Nietzsche."
tagline: "American actress and performance artist"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/zJ527qgVYG8pJ7JEUmTPq57ueYD.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1985-04-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.45314666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
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    handle:    "sheilaYvand"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/SheilaVand"
    handle:    "SheilaVand"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2611074/"
    handle:    "nm2611074"
sources:
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    title: "希拉·凡"
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    title: "شيلا فاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "شيلا ڤاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شیلا وند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Vand"
    title: "Sheila Vand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Vand"
    title: "Sheila Vand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Vand"
    title: "Sheila Vand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Vand"
    title: "Sheila Vand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Vand"
    title: "Sheila Vand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%A4%EB%9D%BC_%EB%B0%B4%EB%93%9C"
    title: "실라 밴드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sheila Vand"
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    title: "Ванд, Шейла"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Vand"
    title: "Sheila Vand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Vand"
    title: "Sheila Vand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump