Sydney Renee

Sydney Renee is an actor, singer, writer, and filmmaker, and an enrolled member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. She grew up in Poulsbo, WA and is located in Kitsap County. She graduated from Central Washington University in 2022 with degrees in English Writing and Liberal Studies with a focus in Communications.

Since then, she has been acting in various film and theatre projects in western WA, most recently playing Mary Warren in Kitsap Forest Theater’s production of The Crucible. She can be seen in Mermaid Motel Media’s short films Wasteland and The Handsome Man. She has always been a storyteller and strives to continue telling meaningful stories in different mediums, focusing on the Native experience.​

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Sydney was also selected for the Olympia Film Collective's Inter Tribal Youth Film Project for 2025 where she will work with mentor and President of Sky Bear Media, Jeff Barehand, to write and direct her first short film.