Saniyya Sidney

Saniyya Sidney is an American actress, beginning her professional on screen career in 2016 as a child actress when she was featured in four high profile projects. In the small screen she appeared in "Roots" (History, 2016) and "American Horror Story: Roanoke" (FX, 2011-). On the big screen she appeared in two Academy Award® nominated films, "Fences" (2016), starring and directed by Denzel Washington and "Hidden Figures" (2016), the hit film about the African-American women who helped make early NASA successful. In 2019 she appeared in a lead role on the sci-fi thriller "The Passage" (Fox, 2019-), based on the novel by the same name.