
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 |
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Most Rating | 0.011 |
Birthday | 1956-01-01 |
Place of Birth | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Also Known As | Sheila Catherine McCarthy, Sheila McCartney, 쉘리아 맥카시, |

1990

Die Hard 2
6.957/5932
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Chris...
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Die Hard 2

1990

Pacific Heights
6.3/377
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
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Pacific Heights

2001

I Was a Rat
0/0
A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is cold, wet and desperate for shelter, but Bob and Joa...
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I Was a Rat

2006

Cow Belles
5.5/249
In order to learn how to be responsible, two wealthy teen sisters are forced to work in the family business by their exasperated father. When company...
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Cow Belles

2002

The Rats
5.5/72
A clan of evil rats overtakes a Manhattan department store and threatens to overrun the city.
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The Rats

1991

Stepping Out
5.8/18
A has-been Broadway performer gives tap lessons to a group of misfits who, through their dance classes, bond and realize what they can achieve.
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Stepping Out

2021

Stroke of Fate
0/0
In a hospital waiting room, family wounds are exposed as a mother and son wait for news of their loved one's prognosis.
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Stroke of Fate

2002

Lathe of Heaven
5.8/12
In a near future society a man claims that his dreams physically change reality. His therapist is confused at first but soon decides to use him for hi...
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Lathe of Heaven

1991

Paradise
6.2/57
A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl.
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Paradise

2004

Geraldine's Fortune
1/1
A grocery-store worker in a small Canadian town gets a chance to appear on a popular television game show.
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Geraldine's Fortune

1989

George's Island
6.5/2
After telling his class about the ghost of Captain Kidd and his buried treasure on George’s Island, George is placed in a foster home. George and anot...
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George's Island

2012

Antiviral
6/398
Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. When he becomes infected...
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Antiviral

1992

A Private Matter
4.8/4
The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of thalidomide were discovered in the early 1960s, spark...
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A Private Matter

1997

Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework
5.4/7
Thirteen-year-old Jesse is a typical teenager who hates his teacher, Mrs. Fink. While visiting a vintage clothing shop, Jesse sees a doll that looks e...
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Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework

2001

Haven
6.909/11
Based on the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to l...
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Haven

1994

The Biggest Little Ticket
0/0
This one-hour children's television special is the story of a young girl who slips into an enchanted world of trolls and dragons and finds herself on...
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The Biggest Little Ticket

1987

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
5.8/36
Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for...
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I've Heard the Mermaids Singing


Love Is the Monster
0/0
A couple, Ana and Justin, rocked by infidelity, attend an exclusive couples retreat in Finland, under the golden rays of the summer’s midnight sun. Th...
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Love Is the Monster

2000

Custody of the Heart
4.2/4
Claire's number one priority is her family. When her husband Dennis loses his stockbroker job, the couple's traditional family roles switch. As Dennis...
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Custody of the Heart

1989

Friends, Lovers, & Lunatics
2.5/2
An artist fired from his job comes home and discovers that his wife is having an affair and that she is leaving with her lover. He then sets off in pu...
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Friends, Lovers, & Lunatics

1990

White Room
5.3/3
Norm, an aimless writer, witnesses the murder of rock video star Madelaine X and feels guilty, as he did nothing to prevent it. At Madelaine’s funeral...
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White Room

1995

The Awakening
4.8/4
Sara lives in a small town where everybody knows everybody and her life is an open book. Left with the care of her family home, she has trouble meetin...
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The Awakening

1993

The Lotus Eaters
7/1
Set off the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of ideas turns a small town upside down. The soft autumn light...
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The Lotus Eaters

1991

The Soulmates in the Gift of Light
5/2
Wicked Angris McBragg sets out to ruin Christmas by undermining the forces of good. Santa Claus abandons his workshop and Comet, his head reindeer, su...
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The Soulmates in the Gift of Light

2014

Algonquin
7/2
A father-son camping expedition runs aground on misfortune and family secrets.
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Algonquin


The Well
0/0
In a world where environmental collapse has left survivors to fight for the precious resources needed to survive, a young woman’s loyalties are tested...
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The Well

2021

The Middle Man
6.1/43
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle...
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The Middle Man

2022

Christmas in Rockwell
5/1
A famous Hollywood actress returns to her hometown where she is enlisted to participate in a Christmas play which threatens her small peaceful village...
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Christmas in Rockwell

2019

An Assortment of Christmas Tales in No Particular Order
0/0
Directed dy Chris Agoston, Clara Altimas, Nabil Badine, Neil Huber
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An Assortment of Christmas Tales in No Particular Order


The Voices of Our Mother
0/0
When a family matriarch falls seriously ill, relatives gather and discover their shared ancestral ties bind them in unexpected ways.
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The Voices of Our Mother

1999

You Know My Name
4.5/9
In six months, the population of Cromwell, Oklahoma, has climbed from 500 to 10,000. Boom times have come to the oil-rich town. So has a new breed of...
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You Know My Name


Dancing on the Elephant
0/0
Faced with a future of chair-xercise and spoon-fed pudding, nursing home friends Nora and Edna attempt to break out of the 'fox farm' and find a life...
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Dancing on the Elephant

1995

The Possession of Michael D.
4.75/4
When a dark force begins to destroy a couple's happiness, they decide to turn to a parapsychologist who discovers that the husband is possessed by a d...
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The Possession of Michael D.

1986

The Marriage Bed
7/1
Linda Griffiths stars as very pregnant Annie Graham, who's about to give birth to her third child in seven years. Annie looks back via flashbacks at h...
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The Marriage Bed


Surfacing
0/0
After years of battling severe depression, a young man learns to love himself and accept love from others after becoming caught in his therapist's per...
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Surfacing

2014

A Fighting Man
5.6/36
Two men meet in the ring for a fight that will change their lives.
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A Fighting Man

2016

Brace for Impact
5.4/27
When disgraced Flight Crash Investigator Sofia Gilchrist's brother dies in the crash of a plane she was supposed to be on, Sofia breaks protocol and s...
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Brace for Impact

2004

Being Julia
6.5/111
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant...
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Being Julia

2024

All the Lost Ones
4.8/4
A near-future civil war is sparked by government-imposed measures due to climate change. Nia, her sister Penny, and her boyfriend Ethan are hiding out...
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All the Lost Ones

2022

Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3
7.4/396
Zed and Addison are beginning their final year at Seabrook High in the town that’s become a safe haven for monsters and humans alike. Zed is anticipat...
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Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3

2018

Still/Born
5.8/149
Still/Born follows Mary, a new mother who lost one of her twins in childbirth. As she struggles with the loss of one of her children, she starts to su...
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Still/Born

1993

Journey to the Planets
0/0
Creatures from space in search of a new home arrive at the Solar System and discuss each planet. An educational animated short made for IMAX.
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Journey to the Planets

2017

Cardinals
5.6/19
When Valerie returns home from prison years after killing her neighbour in an apparent drunk driving accident, she wants nothing more than to move on...
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Cardinals

2014

Dear Viola
6.5/15
Katie, a shy newspaper accountant submits a reply to a "Dear Viola" letter to the editor that she works for, anonymously. She has a real knack for wri...
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Dear Viola

2004

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
5.7/906
When the always dramatic Lola and her family move from the center of everything in New York City to the center of a cultural wasteland in suburban New...
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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

1990

Beautiful Dreamers
5.2/5
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radic...
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Beautiful Dreamers

1986

Really Weird Tales
6/1
The movie consists of three odd and strange tales that each teach a different lesson.
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Really Weird Tales

2004

Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
5/4
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers...
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Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche

2019

Isabelle
5.2/139
A young couple's dream of starting a family shatters as they descend into the depths of paranoia and must struggle to survive an evil presence that wa...
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Isabelle

1990

Bright Angel
4.8/12
In Montana, naive teenager George longs to escape from his broken home before his dysfunctional parents push him over the edge. When George meets pret...
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Bright Angel

1996

House Arrest
5.3/129
High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce...
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House Arrest

2016

Milton's Secret
5.4/15
11 year-old Milton Adams is growing up in an uncertain world. With his parents constantly stressing about their careers and finances, and the neighbor...
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Milton's Secret

1992

Beethoven Lives Upstairs
7/10
When his mother rents their vacant room to a peculiar composer, Christoph can't believe his bad luck. But as the abrasive boarder, Ludwig Van Beethove...
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Beethoven Lives Upstairs

2007

The Stone Angel
5.4/28
The feisty aging Hagar Shipley has lived an unconventional life. Her rebellious heart has always ruled and her choices have put her at odds with famil...
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The Stone Angel

1986

9B
0/0
The story of a young idealistic teacher and his struggle with a class of difficult students in a northern British Columbia school.
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9B

1994

Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills
5.7/6
About the 1989 murders of Carolco Entertainment chairman, Jose Menendez, and his wife, Kitty, who were killed by their sons, Lyle and Erik, in Beverly...
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Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills

2004

The Day After Tomorrow
6.539/8265
After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age,...
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The Day After Tomorrow

2017

Considering Love and Other Magic
6.5/2
In desperate need of extra high school credits, Jessie agrees to tutor young Tommy Faber, but when the timid 14-year-old insists he hasn't left Veroni...
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Considering Love and Other Magic

2007

Breakfast with Scot
6.255/49
The lives of Eric, an ex hockey player, and his partner Sam, are thrown into turmoil when they are forced to take in Scot, a flamboyant 11-year-old.
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Breakfast with Scot

2005

Bailey's Billion$
5.9/27
Sweet and savvy talking golden retriever, Bailey, is one doggone lucky pooch when his devoted owner, Constance Pennington, leaves him her entire billi...
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Bailey's Billion$

2009

Year of the Carnivore
5.375/12
A girl has a crush on a boy who thinks she's bad in bed so she goes out to get more experience.
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Year of the Carnivore

2002

Duct Tape Forever
6.7/3
When an evil land baron's limo falls into a sinkhole outside Possum Lodge, lodge leader Red Green is ordered to pay the baron $10,000 or lose his belo...
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Duct Tape Forever

2001

Rare Birds
5.6/26
A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure luminaries to their small Newfoundland town.
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Rare Birds

2016

Ice Girls
6.5/27
A figure skater is injured during a competition. A coach that hired her then helps her rehab her injury so that she may live her dream.
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Ice Girls

1992

Liza Minnelli - Live from Radio City Music Hall
6.8/4
Liza's dynamic show made history by breaking the box-office record for Radio City. A true superstar, this all-new extravaganza stars Liza and a host o...
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Liza Minnelli - Live from Radio City Music Hall

2003

Full-Court Miracle
5.8/54
Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers on a group of young Jewish basketball players who s...
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Full-Court Miracle

2019

The Christmas Club
6.3/33
Two busy strangers meet when they help an elderly woman find her lost Christmas savings. Thanks to fate and Christmas magic, they also find something...
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The Christmas Club

1998

Dead Husbands
4.7/3
Dr. Carter Elson is a man who finds a list of men's names among his wife Alex's possessions. When Carter discovers his own name at the bottom of the l...
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Dead Husbands

2019

Christmas 9 to 5
6.8/30
Jennifer is a tough crime beat reporter who gets the assignment of her life: to find the true meaning of Christmas. When she goes undercover in a depa...
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Christmas 9 to 5

2018

Level 16
6.767/666
The teenage girls of Vestalis Academy are meticulously trained in the art of being “clean girls,” practicing the virtues of perfect femininity. But wh...
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Level 16

2020

Anything for Jackson
6.8/244
A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child, but...
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Anything for Jackson

2020

Happy Place
5/1
"Welcome to the zoo," Samira is advised as she’s admitted to an in-patient care facility in the wake of a suicide attempt. As she slowly familiarizes...
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Happy Place

2020

The Broken Hearts Gallery
7.2/317
Lucy is a young gallery assistant who collects mementos from her relationships. She discovers that she must let go of her past to move forward, and co...
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The Broken Hearts Gallery

1991

Montreal Stories
5/9
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first...
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Montreal Stories

2000

Virtual Mom
5/2
Sometimes it takes something special to bring a mother and daughter together. For thirteen year-old Lucy and her mom, Holly, it took a little magic. O...
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Virtual Mom

2021

Like a House on Fire
7.2/6
Dara returns home to reconnect with her husband and her young daughter, whom she left two years earlier. When she arrives, she discovers that a woman...
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Like a House on Fire

2022

Women Talking
6.9/610
A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.
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Women Talking

1996

The Care and Handling of Roses
0/0
A fondness for old movies brings together two fortysomethings, each happily married to other people.
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The Care and Handling of Roses

1988

Much Ado About Nothing
0/0
Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.
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Much Ado About Nothing


Back to the Beanstalk
0/0
In this delightful twist on the traditional Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale, Jack Jr., son of Jack the Giant Killer grows his own beanstalk in a que...
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