Sidney Flanigan

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Sidney Flanigan at the premiere of the film Never Rarely Sometimes Always in February 2020 at the Berlinale

Sidney Flanigan (* in Buffalo ) is an American musician and film actress .

Life

Sidney Flanigan is from Buffalo, New York and is the oldest of three children. Her father was a singer in the rock band The Tosspots, her paternal grandfather was a poet and her maternal grandmother was a radical leftist in New York. Flanigan is a graduate of the prestigious Buffalo Academy School of Performing Arts, where she studied music. She also took acting classes at Buffalo State University.

Flanigan made a name for himself in the Buffalo indie music scene and also performed in western New York for several years. As a solo artist, Flanigan performed under the names "Sid the Kidd" and "Sidney Jeanne" and is known for her feminist hymns about relationships and teenage fears, which she accompanies on an acoustic guitar. She is also the lead singer and front woman of the punk fusion group Sus.

She made her debut as an actress in the coming-of-age film Never Rarely Sometimes Always (AKA Never Rarely Sometimes Always ) by Eliza Hittman , who in January 2020 at the Sundance Film Festival made its debut in February 2020 competition of the International Film Festival Berlin was shown. She stars as Autumn, a young woman who has to travel from her hometown in Pennsylvania to New York for an abortion . She was discovered by Hittman's colleague Scott Cummings while researching a film in Buffalo about the underground culture in the region.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Sidney Flanigan. In: focusfeatures.com. Retrieved February 29, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Flanigan, Sidney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , United States