Amber Sealey

Amber Sealey is a British-American actor and filmmaker whose work spans acting, writing, producing and directing. She was born in Brighton, England, and grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She studied theater and modern dance at the University of California, Santa Cruz and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She worked with the theater collective Shunt in London before moving to Los Angeles in 2008 to write, direct and produce her own features. As an actor she is known for the films The Good Night (2007) and Big Nothing (2006) and the television series Attachments. She directed A Plus D, which premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival. Her second film, How to Cheat, and her third, No Light and No Land Anywhere, both premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, in 2011 and 2016. In 2024 she directed the Disney+ film Out of My Mind, which won a Peabody Award.