Sydney Tamiia Poitier Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: The similar cognomen is not coincidental: actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier is indeed the daughter of legendary stage and screen icon Sidney Poitier. Born to the famous thespian and actress Joanna Shimkus in 1973 (the youngest of Sidney's six daughters), Sydney attended New York University beginning...Read More

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Knight Rider

Actors: Justin Bruening, Deanna Russo, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Bruce Davison, David Hasselhoff

2008
Grindhouse

Actors: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Jeff Fahey, Michael Biehn, Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, Zoe Bell, Vanessa Ferlito, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Synopsis: Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino and Sin City director Robert Rodriguez join forces to offer a cinematic tribute to the blood-soaked exploitation epics of yesteryear with this hyper-violent coupling of two full-length features punctuated by a collection of outrageous trailers. The first Read More

4/6/07
Death Proof

Actors: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Rose McGowan

Synopsis: In Death Proof -- director Tarantino's take on such peddle-to-the-metal shockers as White Line Fever -- Kurt Russell stars as an engine-revving psychopath who prefers to take out his beautiful victims at 200 mph. Originally released into theaters on a double bill with Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror Read More

4/6/07
Grey's Anatomy: 17 Seconds

Synopsis: The day's rounds require that George (T.R. Knight) team up with Derek (Patrick Dempsey)--and, less harmoniously, that Callie (Sara Ramirez, now a series regular) team up with Meredith (Ellen Pompeo). In other developments, Finn (Chris O'Donnell) gets an update on the wellbeing of Meredith's dog Read More

2006
The List

Actors: Wayne Brady, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Margaret Cho, Brad Dourif, Concetta Tomei, Erica Gimpel, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Helaine Cira

Synopsis: Popular comic Wayne Brady stars as a skilled young advertising executive who knows exactly what he wants in a woman, and isn't willing to let his disillusion with the dating scene prevent him from finding true love. Upon assembling a list of attributes that would define his ideal woman, the Read More

2006
Nine Lives

Actors: Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Elpidia Carrillo, Glenn Close, Stephen Dillane

Synopsis: Filmmaker Rodrigo García takes an unusual look into the lives of nine different women in this episodic drama. Each of the film's nine sequences has been staged as a single shot, using the Steadicam system to allow the camera to follow the action fluidly and without cuts. In these short episodes Read More

10/14/05
Veronica Mars: Season 01

Actors: Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni, Percy Daggs III, Teddy Dunn, Jason Dohring

Synopsis: Season one of Veronica Mars finds both the title character (Kristen Bell) and her ex-sheriff father, Keith (Enrico Colantoni), regarded as lepers in the affluent community of Neptune -- and it's all because Keith made public his suspicion that Jake Kane (Kyle Secor), the town's richest man, killed Read More

2004
The Devil Cats

Actors: Gillian Lee Whitlock, Lesley Ann Poling, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Anika Poitier, Mary Klimek

2004
Abby [TV Series]

Actors: Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Kadeem Hardison, Randy J. Goodwin, Sean O'Bryan, Tangie Ambrose

Synopsis: Hastily assembled as a mid-season replacement for the failed series Haunted, the UPN sitcom Abby starred Sydney Tamiia Poitier as Abby Newman, the attractive young producer of the TV weekly "Northwest Sports Report." Splitting up with her self-absorbed boyfriend Will Jefferies (Kadeem Hardison) Read More

2003
MacArthur Park

Actors: Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Brandon Adams, B-Real, Badazz

Synopsis: Playwright Tyrone Atkins lost a promising career in theater and film -- as well as his home, his belongings, and (for a time) his freedom -- when he became addicted to crack cocaine. After conquering his habit, Atkins used his experiences living on the streets as the basis for this story about a Read More

2001
On the Edge

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Paul Rudd, Anthony LaPaglia, John Goodman, David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: First seen over the Showtime cable network on June 29, 2001, On the Edge is a compendium of three short science-fiction films, each with a decidedly feminist slant. The first segment, directed by Helen Mirren, is "Happy Birthday," in which a straight-A student (Sidney Tamilia Poitier) seeks Read More

2001
Park Day

Actors: Hill Harper, Monica Calhoun, Lande Scott, Brock Peters, Sydney Tamiia Poitier

Synopsis: In the small, largely African-American Southern town of New Haven, a young man finds himself caught between two rival factions: one, a bunch of narcissistic frat boys, the other, a group of homeys in the hood. It doesn't take long for tensions to come to a boil. Hill Harper, Lande Scott, and Monica Calhoun Read More

1998