---
name: "Sheila Atim"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sheila-atim"
fi1m_id: "sheila-atim"
imdb_id: "nm5956547"
tmdb_id: 1851642
wikidata_id: "Q61989847"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1991"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 63
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-30T21:58:05.231435+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."
---

# Sheila Atim

## Identity

Sheila Atim

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sheila-atim
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sheila-atim
- **IMDb ID:** nm5956547
- **TMDB ID:** 1851642
- **Wikidata ID:** Q61989847
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Atim, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61989847, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5956547/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1851642

Actor. Born 1 January 1991 in Uganda.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1991, Uganda
- **Active:** 2022–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 3 acting, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 63, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 63 to 66 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 2, Adventure 2, Animation 1, Drama 1, Family 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,776m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Atim, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61989847, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5956547/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1851642

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Woman King*](https://film.one/film/the-woman-king.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Sheila Atim is a Ugandan-British actress, singer, composer and playwright. She was born in Uganda in January 1991 and moved to the United Kingdom as an infant.

Atim made her professional stage debut in 2013 or 2014 at Shakespeare's Globe in the musical *The Lightning Child*, which she co-wrote with her teacher Ché Walker. She has won two Laurence Olivier Awards for stage work, including Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical for *Girl from the North Country*. She was appointed MBE in 2019 for services to drama.

Her screen credits include *Bruised* (2021) as Bobbi Buddhakan Berroa, *Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness* (2022) as Sara, *Pinocchio* (2022) as Signora Vitelli, *The Woman King* (2022) as Amenza, *The Underground Railroad* (2021) as Mabel, and voice roles in *Mufasa: The Lion King* (2024) as Ajarry and *Marvel Zombies* (2025) as Sara.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

### Performed in (3) — the average rests on these

- *Mufasa: The Lion King* (2024), Fi1m 57, as Ajarry (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/mufasa-the-lion-king.md)
- *Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness* (2022), Fi1m 60, as Sara — [page](https://film.one/film/doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness.md)
- *The Woman King* (2022), Fi1m 72, as Amenza — [page](https://film.one/film/the-woman-king.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *The Underground Railroad* (2021), Fi1m 86, as Mabel (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-underground-railroad.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

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

- *The Vampire Lestat* (2026), series, as The Queen of the Damned
- *Dust Bunny* (2025), as Brenda
- *Marvel Zombies* (2025), series, as Sara (voice)
- *Mufasa: The Lion King* (2024), as Ajarry (voice) — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/mufasa-the-lion-king.md)
- *Leaving Ikorodu In 1999* (2024), Actor
- *All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt* (2023), as Evelyn
- *The Woman King* (2022), as Amenza — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-woman-king.md)
- *Pinocchio* (2022), as Signora Vitelli
- *Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness* (2022), as Sara — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness.md)
- *Bruised* (2021), as Bobbi Buddhakan Berroa
- *National Theatre Live: Constellations* (2021), as Marianne
- *The Show* (2021), as John Conqueror
- *The Underground Railroad* (2021), series, as Mabel (uncredited), Mabel — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-underground-railroad.md)
- *Drunk history: Black Stories* (2021), series, as Yaa Asantewaa
- *Accused: A Mother on Trial* (2020), series, as Narrator
- *Meow or Never* (2020), as Pucha the Catstronaut (voice)
- *Sulphur & White* (2020), as Samira
- *The Pale Horse* (2020), series, as Thyrza Grey
- *Everything Is Connected: George Eliot's Life* (2019), as Narrator
- *The Feed* (2019), series, as Amanda Javad
- *National Theatre Live: Les Blancs* (2019), as The Woman
- *Twelfth Night* (2018), as Viola / Sebastian
- *Julius Caesar* (2018), as Lucius
- *The Tempest* (2018), as Ferdinand
- *Henry IV* (2018), as Gadshill/Lady Percy
- *Harlots* (2017), series, as Limehouse Nell
- *Queen of the Damned*, series, as Queen of the Damned

## Gallery

- ![Sheila Atim](https://film.one/media/person/333848/gallery-e1fd3fa31a73.jpg) Sheila Atim — Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Sheila_Atim_at_San_Diego_Comic_Con_2026-2.jpg/1280px-Sheila_Atim_at_San_Diego_Comic_Con_2026-2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Sheila Atim at San Diego Comic Con 2026](https://film.one/media/person/333848/gallery-5f6750d9a441.jpg) Sheila Atim at San Diego Comic Con 2026 — Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Sheila_Atim_at_San_Diego_Comic_Con_2026-1.jpg/1280px-Sheila_Atim_at_San_Diego_Comic_Con_2026-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Sheila Atim, with Damson Idris, in Ghost Town, 2014](https://film.one/media/person/333848/gallery-f90f179d3a36.jpg) Sheila Atim, with Damson Idris, in Ghost Town, 2014 — Pilot Theatre, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Damson_Idris_%28Joe%29%2C_Sheila_Atim_%28Keira%29_%2812497877163%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Sheila Atim](https://film.one/media/person/333848/gallery-a7cef3cb434c.jpg) Sheila Atim — Image via TMDB
- ![Sheila Atim](https://film.one/media/person/333848/gallery-d370e016be4e.jpg) Sheila Atim — Image via TMDB
- ![Sheila Atim](https://film.one/media/person/333848/gallery-039fd728bbd5.jpg) Sheila Atim — Image via TMDB

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