Shanessa Sweeney
Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles
Drama Series - 2018, 16 episodes • as Janaya Purcell
A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Angry Woman #1
An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • as Linda
Years after a brutal attack left her in a constantly shifting reality, Kirby Mazrachi learns that a recent murder is linked to her assault. She teams with veteran reporter Dan Velazquez to understand her ever-changing present—and confront her past.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Janet
A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Ro Ro
An aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home to embark on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman's hair for her funeral, rediscovering his sparkle along the way.
Movie - 2001, 2h 15m • as Cassandra Jones
A small town drama about a man who is forced to confront some uncomfortable issues when his past comes back to haunt him. Billy Stagen is a former professional football player and present-day sheriff in his hometown, the picturesque Rustin, Alabama.
Movie - 2015, 2h 15m • as Carrie Dailey (voice)
In 1952 Ruby McCollum, a black woman, killed her white doctor in Live Oak, Fla after years of sexual abuse. The remarkable secrets and terrible truths revealed during her trial and incarceration haunted jurors and prosecutors for decades.