---
name: "Shila Ommi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shila-ommi"
fi1m_id: "shila-ommi"
imdb_id: "nm1937116"
tmdb_id: 2073564
wikidata_id: "Q119959499"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "22 April 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-07T18:51:35.012126+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."
---

# Shila Ommi

## Identity

Shila Ommi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shila-ommi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** shila-ommi
- **IMDb ID:** nm1937116
- **TMDB ID:** 2073564
- **Wikidata ID:** Q119959499
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119959499, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1937116/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2073564

Actor. Born 22 April 1968 in Tehran, Iran.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 22 April 1968, Tehran, Iran
- **Active:** 2020–present
- **Also known as:** Sheila Vosough Ommi, Sheila Ommi, Shila Vosough Ommi, Shila Vossugh Ommi, Sheila Vosough, 希拉·歐米
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 70 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Drama 2, Animation 1, Family 1, Romance 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 2 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $496m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119959499, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1937116/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2073564

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Elemental*](https://film.one/film/elemental.md) (64)

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

## Biography

Shila Ommi is an Iranian-American actress. She voiced the character Cinder in the Pixar animated film *Elemental* (2023). Her other screen credits include the role of Nahid Kamali in the Apple TV+ series *Tehran* (2020–), Pas in the Netflix series *KAOS* (2024), and a part in the film *Charlie Wilson's War* (2007).

Born in Tehran, Iran, Ommi grew up in Los Angeles. She has a background in theatre, having directed and produced plays in Los Angeles and toured internationally for over a decade with an Iranian-American production company performing in Persian.

*Sources: imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *KAOS* (2024), Fi1m 67, as Pas — [page](https://film.one/tv/kaos.md)
- *Elemental* (2023), Fi1m 64, as Cinder (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/elemental.md)
- *Little America* (2020), Fi1m 82, as Yasmin — [page](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

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

- *The Last King* (2024), as Sima
- *KAOS* (2024), series, as Pas — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/tv/kaos.md)
- *Sisters* (2024), as Nazanin
- *Elemental* (2023), as Cinder (voice) — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/elemental.md)
- *The Illegal* (2021), as Sara
- *Tehran* (2020), series, as Nahid Kamali
- *Little America* (2020), series, as Yasmin — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md)
- *Forgive Me* (2019), as Marjan
- *Roya* (2018), as Roya
- *The Bold Type* (2017), series, as Shamsi
- *Starwatch* (2017), as Dr. Dorothy Reynolds
- *Lili & Lola* (2015), series, as Mother (Voice)
- *The First Family* (2012), series, as Mrs. Olson
- *Little Shrink* (2012), series, as Jacqueline Hill
- *Mixed Nutz* (2009), series, as Layla
- *Liberation* (2009), as Farah Diba Pahlavi
- *Charlie Wilson's War* (2007), as Refugee Mother

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