---
name: "Ellen Sandweiss"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ellen-sandweiss"
fi1m_id: "ellen-sandweiss"
imdb_id: "nm0762445"
tmdb_id: 11462
wikidata_id: "Q2275533"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 December 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:52:27.772712+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ellen Sandweiss

## Identity

Ellen Sandweiss

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ellen-sandweiss
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ellen-sandweiss
- **IMDb ID:** nm0762445
- **TMDB ID:** 11462
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2275533
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Sandweiss, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2275533, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0762445/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11462

Actor. Born 30 December 1958 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 December 1958, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- **Also known as:** Ellen Hodges, Ellen Sandweiss-Hodges
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Sandweiss, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2275533, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0762445/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11462

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Evil Dead*](https://film.one/film/the-evil-dead.md) (77)

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## Biography

Ellen Sandweiss is an American actress. She was born in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from the University of Michigan with degrees in theatre and drama and theatre management. She first worked with director Sam Raimi and actor Bruce Campbell while at high school in the Detroit area, appearing in their early Super 8 short films.

Sandweiss is best known for playing Cheryl Williams in *The Evil Dead* (1981). She later appeared in *Satan's Playground* (2006), *My Name Is Bruce* (2007) as Cheryl, *Oz the Great and Powerful* (2013) and *Ash vs Evil Dead* (2016), reprising the role of Cheryl. She has also worked in musical theatre as a dancer and singer, and in a one-woman show of Jewish music.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Evil Dead* (1983), Fi1m 77, as Cheryl — [page](https://film.one/film/the-evil-dead.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sundowners* (2019), Actor
- *Ash vs Evil Dead* (2015), series, as Cheryl Williams
- *Evil Dead* (2013), as Cheryl (voice)
- *Oz the Great and Powerful* (2013), as Quadling Woman
- *The Other Way* (2010), as Guest #1
- *Dark Fields* (2009), as Mandy Applebe
- *Dangerous Women* (2009), series, as Cheryl
- *Brutal Massacre: A Comedy* (2008), as Natalie
- *Life After Dead: The Ladies of the Evil Dead* (2007), Producer
- *The Ladies of the Evil Dead Meet Bruce Campbell* (2007), Actor
- *My Name Is Bruce* (2007), as Cheryl
- *The Dread* (2007), as Diane
- *Satan's Playground* (2006), as Paula
- *Speedbag* (2006), as Eleanor Chauncey
- *The Evil Dead* (1983), as Cheryl — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-evil-dead.md)
- *Within the Woods* (1979), as Ellen
- *The Case of the Topanga Pearl* (1976), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Ellen Sandweiss](https://film.one/media/person/1265498/gallery-90c485926043.jpg) Ellen Sandweiss — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Ellen_Sandweiss_2009.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ellen Sandweiss](https://film.one/media/person/1265498/gallery-5291ab2ac629.jpg) Ellen Sandweiss — Image via TMDB

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