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name: "Sydney Tamiia Poitier"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sydney-tamiia-poitier"
fi1m_id: "sydney-tamiia-poitier"
imdb_id: "nm0688624"
tmdb_id: 20493
wikidata_id: "Q261244"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 November 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-01T00:36:10.097947+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."
---

# Sydney Tamiia Poitier

## Identity

Sydney Tamiia Poitier

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sydney-tamiia-poitier
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sydney-tamiia-poitier
- **IMDb ID:** nm0688624
- **TMDB ID:** 20493
- **Wikidata ID:** Q261244
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Tamiia_Poitier, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q261244, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688624/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20493

Actor. Born 15 November 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 November 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Active:** 2007–present
- **Also known as:** Sydney Poitier, Sydney Poitier Heartsong
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 64 (1), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Tamiia_Poitier, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q261244, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688624/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20493

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Death Proof*](https://film.one/film/death-proof.md) (64)

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## Biography

Sydney Tamiia Poitier is an American-Canadian actress. She was born on 15 November 1973 in Los Angeles, California, and is the daughter of actor Sidney Poitier and actress Joanna Shimkus. She studied acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.

Poitier began her career in the late 1990s. She is known for her role as Jungle Julia in Quentin Tarantino's *Death Proof* (2007), part of the film *Grindhouse*, and for television appearances including *Veronica Mars* (2004), *Knight Rider* (2008), and *Carter* (2018–2019).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Common Side Effects* (2025), Fi1m 80, as Cecily (voice) — [page](https://film.one/tv/common-side-effects.md)
- *Death Proof* (2007), Fi1m 64, as Jungle Julia — [page](https://film.one/film/death-proof.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

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

- *Common Side Effects* (2025), series, as Cecily (voice) — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/common-side-effects.md)
- *Homecoming* (2018), series, as Lydia Belfast
- *Carter* (2018), series, as Sam Shaw
- *Clinical* (2017), as Clara
- *Too Late* (2016), as Veronica
- *Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn* (2015), as Tami
- *Chicago P.D.* (2014), series, as Detective Sumners
- *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), series, as Grace Tilwell — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md)
- *Page 36* (2010), as Miss Gray
- *Knight Rider* (2008), series, as Carrie Rivai
- *Knight Rider* (2008), as Carrie Rivai
- *Blues* (2008), Actor
- *Private Practice* (2007), series, as Michelle
- *Death Proof* (2007), as Jungle Julia — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/death-proof.md)
- *The List* (2007), as Cecile
- *Grindhouse* (2007), as Jungle Julia (segment "Death Proof")
- *Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror* (2006), as Wanda
- *Nine Lives* (2005), as Vanessa
- *Grey's Anatomy* (2005), series, as Deborah Fleiss — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/greys-anatomy.md)
- *Veronica Mars* (2004), series, as Mallory Dent — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/veronica-mars.md)
- *Joan of Arcadia* (2003), series, as Rebecca Askew
- *Abby* (2003), series, as Abby Walker
- *The Twilight Zone* (2002), series, as Leslie Coburn
- *On the Edge* (2001), as Hannah (segment "Happy Birthday")
- *First Years* (2001), series, as Riley Kessler
- *MacArthur Park* (2001), as Linda
- *Noah's Ark* (1999), series, as Ruth
- *True Crime* (1999), as Jane March
- *Free of Eden* (1999), as Nicole Turner
- *Park Day* (1998), as Sophia Johnson

## Gallery

- ![Sydney Tamiia Poitier](https://film.one/media/person/9066/gallery-36e80327b41d.jpg) Sydney Tamiia Poitier — pinguino k from North Hollywood, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Sydney_Poitier_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![American actresses Monica Staggs (left) and Sydney Tamiia Poitier (right). Taken at the 2007 Scream Awards.](https://film.one/media/person/9066/gallery-32f0ad8c2a81.jpg) American actresses Monica Staggs (left) and Sydney Tamiia Poitier (right). Taken at the 2007 Scream Awards. — pinguino k from North Hollywood, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Staggs_and_Poitier.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier at the premiere of Grindhouse, Austin, Texas. (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/9066/gallery-13317afd91e3.jpg) Actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier at the premiere of Grindhouse, Austin, Texas. (2007) — Jeff Balke. (Flickr profile)., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Sydney_Tamiia_Poitier.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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