- Films
- 28
- Avg rating
- 6.10
- Peak run
- 1987’91
Every film, by IMDb rating
The career
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes
Sheila by the numbers
Average
6.10
17 rated films
Vote weighted
6.15
bigger films count more
Median
6.3
half are better
Consistency
±0.80
rating spread
Career
40y
1987 to 2026
Total votes
637K
across every film
Best
7.2
Die Hard 2
Worst
4.8
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Newest first
Filmography
| 2026 | Surfacing | Dawn McCall | · | 187 |
| 2026 |  The Voices of Our Mother | Harriet | · | 369 |
| 2025 |  The Well | Gabriel | · | 219 |
| 2025 |  Love Is the Monster | Margaret | · | 203 |
| 2025 |  Dancing on the Elephant | Nora | · | 27 |
| 2024 | All the Lost Ones | Dawn | · | 349 |
| 2022 |  Women Talking | Greta | 6.9 | 86,193 |
| 2021 | The Middle Man | Mrs. Stout | 6.0 | 1,202 |
| 2020 |  Anything for Jackson | Audrey | 6.3 | 13,899 |
| 2020 | Like a House on Fire | Katherine | · | 404 |
| 2020 |  The Broken Hearts Gallery | Cheryl Gulliver | 6.4 | 11,339 |
| 2018 | Isabelle | Ann Pelway | 4.2 | 1,609 |
| 2017 |  Still/Born | Sheila | 5.4 | 4,862 |
| 2017 | Cardinals | Valerie Walker | · | 507 |
| 2016 | Milton's Secret | Luz | 5.9 | 1,238 |
| 2014 | A Fighting Man | Rose O'Connor | 5.5 | 1,717 |
| 2012 |  Antiviral | · | 5.7 | 17,104 |
| 2009 | Year of the Carnivore | Mrs. Smalls | · | 726 |
| 2007 | The Stone Angel | Doris | 6.1 | 1,858 |
| 2005 | Bailey's Billion$ | Peggy Delaney | · | 727 |
Better together?
Sheila McCarthy's regulars
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers. Acting pairs here count billed roles (an actor in a director's top six, co-stars both in the top five); each duo page counts every film they made together in those roles.
Films together: Patricia Rozema and Sheila McCarthy movies
Takes
On Sheila McCarthy
Information courtesy of IMDb (https://www.imdb.com). Used with permission. Ratings and votes as of the latest nightly refresh.