Shila Ommi

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Shila Ommi

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Elemental
1h 42m
Movie 2023

Elemental

In a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy will discover something elemental: how much they have in common.

Forgive Me
0h 12m
Movie 2019

Forgive Me

A forbidden love story in a forbidden place.

The Illegal
1h 26m
Movie 2019

The Illegal

A gritty realistic story about a young film school student from middle-class India who's forced to drop out to support his family while staying in the United States as an undocumented worker.

Roya
0h 12m
Movie 2018

Roya

Roya, a traditional Iranian-American mother, freaks out when her daughter dyes her hair blue right before an engagement party.

Starwatch
1h 33m
Movie 2017

Starwatch

A trial is held in the asteroid belt in the year 2075 to determine the fate of humanity.

Little Shrink
TV Show 2012

Little Shrink

Jasmine Fischer is a child psychologist - clever and witty. Although she's a teenager, she developed an ability to quickly diagnose people and situations and manipulate them both. However wise beyond her years, she must also deal with normal teenage angst such as bullies, rivals, teenage crush, etc...

Liberation
0h 21m
Movie 2009

Liberation

In 1979, the Shah of Iran was overthrown by the country's Islamic Revolution. Forced into exile, he settled in an isolated mansion in Cuernevaca, Mexico and watched as his empire collapsed on television. A powerful examination of dictatorship and its psychological effects on a man, LIBERATION explores a key turning point in Middle-East History and the origins of the Iran we know today.

Biography

Shila Vosough Ommi is an American actress, director, writer and producer who was born in Tehran, Iran, and grew up in Los Angeles. She has directed and produced award winning plays in Los Angeles, and for over a decade she toured internationally under the name Shila Vosough in an Iranian-American theater production company performing plays in Persian. Shila directed the feature film, 'Wake Up Sleeping Beauty', a psychological dramatic film about a young Iranian-American woman waking up from cultural trappings and 'curses,' and coming into her own power. It was produced by the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. A graduate of UCLA, Ommi received a Departmental Honors for a 'Bachelor of Science in Biological Anthropology' minoring in Biology, where she wrote a published thesis on 'Parental Investment Among Vervet Monkeys.' She later attended the Ruskin School of Acting where she studied under the tutelage of John Ruskin and Sir Anthony Hopkins. In addition to emceeing charities, hosting award shows, moderating and occasionally performing stand-up comedy, Ommi is also a prolific voice-over artist narrating documentaries and voicing characters in animated TV and web series.

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