Amber Sealey is an award-winning filmmaker and actor who was born in England and raised in New Mexico. Her most recent film, NO LIGHT AND NO LAND ANYWHERE, had its world premiere at the LA Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Award and IndieWire said the film could “further cement Sealey’s reputation as one of the most promising directors of female-driven stories working the U.S. today.” NO LIGHT AND NO LAND ANYWHERE, Executive Produced by Miranda July, went on to receive the Indie Vision Breakthrough Feature Film Award at Twin Cities Film Festival, and will be theatrically released in 2017. Her second feature as writer, director, and actor, HOW TO CHEAT, won the Best Performance Award at the LA Film Festival, and won both the Best Narrative Film Award and the Best Acting Award at BendFilm. Critics called it “amazing… laugh-out-loud hilarious” and “one of the most relevant and eloquent portraits of modern marriage to date.” HOW TO CHEAT was distributed by FilmBuff. Her first film, A PLUS D, premiered at Montreal World, where critics said, “Fact and fiction are obliterated… edgy, anguished, funny… The acting is astonishing… I thought of Cassavetes, Winterbottom” and was distributed by IndiePix Films. Amber was selected for Film Independent’s Directing Lab and their Fast Track program with her feature script NEW MEXICAN RAIN. She directed Miranda July (ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW) for her scene in her short film, Somebody, and has worked for director Mike Mills (20TH CENTURY WOMEN) pre-directing his actors for commercials. Amber extensively shadowed director Jamie Babbit on Kay Cannon’s Netflix series “Girlboss,” and shadowed Jill Soloway and Marta Cunningham on Soloway’s Amazon series “Transparent.” Schooling includes: The University of California, Santa Cruz, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and The Central School of Speech and Drama. As a performer and devisor she worked in London for seven years with the award-winning physical theatre company, SHUNT, as well as performing in numerous films and television shows. She is a highly experienced audio book and voice over artist, and teaches a weekly acting class. She lives in LA with her husband and two children.
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Biography from TMDB.
- October 27, 1975 (51)
- Brighton, England, UK
- Actor, director, producer and writer
- 8 on MovieCove · 20 credits in all
What are Amber Sealey's films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 5
Light 2 · Serious 2 · Dark 2
Grounded 3 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 0
Gentle 2 · Charged 3 · Intense 1
A split, not a type: Steady 4 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 1
A split, not a type: Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 2 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 1
A split, not a type: Easy watch 3 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 1
A split, not a type: Resolved 3 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet2
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Amber Sealey's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 6 of their 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).
- BritBox
Subscription and free streaming for Amber Sealey's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
20 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page.
Out of My Mind(2024)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
No Man of God(2021)
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
Kajillionaire(2020)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
How Does It Start (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films
Silver Bullets (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
How to Cheat (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
A Plus D (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
The Good Night(2007)
Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films
Big Nothing(2006)
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all filmsThe Secretary Who Stole £4 Million (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Heatwave (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Blue Murder(2003)
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all shows
Bertie and Elizabeth(2002)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all filmsAlfred Hitchcock's Gun (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Strange Relations (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Sweet Revenge (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Living in Missouri (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Attachments (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Count Backwards from Ten (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 58th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 20 titles, 19 of them dated from 2000 to 2024.
Biggest box office
Kajillionaire (2020)
Highest rated
Out of My Mind (2024)
Most popular right now
No Man of God (2021)
Film career
- 2006Screen debut· Big Nothing
Awards
1 major award from 2 major nominations, 2019–2025.
- Directors Guild Award, won · Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs
- Sundance award, nominated
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Amber Sealey's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 61st percentile, the median of all 7; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 61st percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 50th to 74th4
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
5 of their 8 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Crowd Pleaser5
- Mixed2
Reviewers score the acting 77/100 in their films, across 5 reviewed titles; fans 84, detractors 55. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Amber Sealey's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 4 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Amber Sealey work with?
People who share at least 2 of Amber Sealey's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Luke Kirby shares the most, 2.
Actors
- Luke KirbyShared titles: Out of My Mind (2024), No Man of God (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Luke Kirby
- Simon PeggShared titles: The Good Night (2007), Big Nothing (2006)See all 2 shared titles with Simon Pegg
Editors
- Patrick Nelson BarnesShared titles: No Man of God (2021), No Light and No Land Anywhere (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Patrick Nelson Barnes
Mixed roles
- Miranda JulyShared titles: Kajillionaire (2020), No Light and No Land Anywhere (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Miranda July
