Saniyya Sidney

Saniyya Sidney (; born October 30, 2006) is an American actress. Her accolades include nominations for three Black Reel Awards, two Critics' Choice Awards, an NAACP Image Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Following independent and short film roles, Sidney earned recognition with the horror seriesAmerican Horror Story: Roanoke (2016). Her breakthrough came with the perioddrama filmFences (2016), for which she received a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. She appeared in the biographical filmHidden Figures (2016) and the superhero filmFast Color (2018), before earning praise for leading FOX's vampire drama The Passage (2019) and playing young Venus Williams in King Richard (2021). For the latter, she was nominated for the Black Reel Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer.