Shian Denovan Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Shian Denovan
Acting
Biography
Shian is a Scottish actress with substantial credits in both film and theatre. She recently won Best Female Performance at A Night Of Horror International Film Festival in Sydney for her role in feature film Cat Sick Blues. She plays a strong supporting role in the feature Sawney which was nominated for the BAFTA Cineworld audience award and gained worldwide distribution. She also plays the lead in feature films Birthday and Tomoko. Short film work includes playing a leading role in BAFTA winning short film He Said, She Walks and multi award winning Split. Theatre work includes being nominated for Best Actress by The Stage at the Acting Excellence Awards for her role in Snap. Catch. Slam. which performed at The Pleasance during the Edinburgh Fringe, followed by a national UK tour. Playing Helen in Dennis Kelly’s Orphans for a well established Australian theatre company and a year working with repertoire company Chamber Shakespeare playing Lady Macbeth, Desdemona and Ophelia.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Sawney: Flesh of Man
Religious psychopath Sawney stalks Scotland abducting unholy souls for his communion of sacrifices. With his insane family of inbred killers, Sawney tortures and eats their victims saving the best morsels for a chained-up figure in their cavernous Highlands lair. As the Missing Persons list rises investigative crime journalist Hamish MacDonald writes sensational and damming headlines against the police, due to their incompetence in handling the case. After his fiancée is kidnapped by the cannibal clan Hamish investigates the heinous crimes on his own with disastrous results. For there’s something he doesn’t know about the case that’s crucial to solving it…
In a State
After her sister Julia’s mysterious disappearance, pragmatic twenty-something Mia (Ali Ryrie-Golding) checks in on her sister’s forlorn husband, Joel (Sam Young). As Joel’s despair becomes apparent, Mia is alarmed to learn that Joel believes Julia (Shian Denovan) has gone to live with aliens. As Mia tries to talk him around, Joel makes the fantastical claim he can contact his wife using a strange black object. At first unbelieving, Mia’s firm grip on reality starts to dissolve, dredging up the ghosts of her relationship with her absent sister.
The Whip
A full-time carer plots a daring heist from the Houses of Parliament, in a bid to thwart devastating welfare reforms known as Independence Credit.
Split
An analysis of the dynamic in a relationship and one man's extreme physical reaction to loss.
Cat Sick Blues
When Ted’s beloved cat dies, the trauma triggers a terrible mental breakdown. His broken brain prompts him to bring his feline friend back – all he needs is nine human lives. Ted dons vicious deadly cat claw gloves and a creepy cat mask, and goes on a murderous rampage. As the butchery escalates, a twisted romance blossoms between Ted and Claire, a young woman who has also recently lost her cat in a horrifying incident.
Bite
Pursued by a dangerous criminal after a failed theft, con artists Nina and Yaz get way more than they bargained for when they target a seemingly innocent elderly widow called Beryl. Incarcerated in a nightmare version of suburbia and consumed with fear, Nina and Yaz find themselves fighting desperately for their lives against Beryl’s family of deranged and hungry psychopaths.
Frankenstein
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Siren
A young woman’s mundane life is turned upside down when she meets a sensuous older Spanish woman, who is passing through the sleepy English coastal town she lives in.
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