Saycon Sengbloh
Actor · Born October 23, 1977 (49) · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Saycon Sengbloh was born in Atlanta, GA. to an American mother and Liberian father. She has been a featured actress and vocalist in the newest generation of contemporary shows on Broadway and off-Broadway, embracing a new sound of pop, rock, & soul music and production including Rent, Oprah Winfrey's the Color Purple the musical, Disney's Aida, the new revival of Hair, Wicked, Hurt Village, & also the first Afro-beat musical, Fela! where she starred as the delicious Sandra Iszadore. She was photographed and named one of the hottest up and coming acts in the annual juice issue of VIBE magazine. "Fela!" the musical won several Tony awards! Saycon sings on the Grammy nominated soundtracks for "Fela!", "Hair", "Motown the Musical" and also provided backing vocals on the soundtrack for the Julie Taymore film "Across the Universe". The ever versatile actress brings hip-hop to Broadway in Tupac Shakur production "Holler If Ya Hear Me" including Saycon Sengbloh as a muse and rapper to a new generation of theater fans. She began performing as a kid in plays and musicals at Tri-Cities School for Visual and Performing Arts and attended Agnes Scott College and has been seen in commercials, print ads, and on the cover of the New York Times Best seller: "Big Girls Don't Cry" by Connie Brisco. After numerous productions with the Freddie Hendrick's Youth Ensemble of Atlanta. She has worked with directors Kenny Leon, Michael Greif, Charles Randolph-Wright, & Tyler Perry among others. She is very proud to have appeared in the films of female directors Julie Dash and Julie Taymore. Saycon Sengbloh has a cult following among New York theatre fans as the first woman of African descent to perform the role of Elphaba the Wicked witch of the West in Universal's hugely popular musical "Wicked" and as an indie music artist and songwriter she has released several songs available online and music videos including, "Be Here", "Warrior" and "Possible".
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Biography from IMDb.
- October 23, 1977 (49)
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Actor
- 17 on MovieCove · 21 credits in all
What are Saycon Sengbloh's films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
A split, not a type: Light 1 · Serious 1 · Dark 2
Grounded 4 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 2 · Intense 1
Steady 2 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0
A split, not a type: Easy watch 1 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 2
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet4
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Saycon Sengbloh's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 12 of their 17 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Hulu (4).
Subscription and free streaming for Saycon Sengbloh's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
21 credits, 17 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Love, Brooklyn(2025)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
Vera’s Holiday Flop (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
A Shot Through the Wall(2020)
Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all films
The Wonder Years(2021)
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all shows
Respect(2021)
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
Delilah(2021)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all shows
Ask for Jane(2018)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
In the Dark(2019)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all shows
Ten Days in the Valley (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Double Play (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
The Night Of(2016)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all shows
Finding Fela(2014)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
Scandal(2012)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all shows
The Good Wife(2009)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all shows
The Prince of Motor City(2008)
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
American Gangster(2007)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
Across the Universe(2007)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Funny Valentines (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
Dawson's Creek(1998)
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Law & Order(1990)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all shows
Career shape
Star power in the 75th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 20 titles from 1990 to 2025.
Biggest box office
Respect (2021)
Highest rated
Finding Fela (2014)
Most popular right now
The Wonder Years (2021)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Saycon Sengbloh's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 69th percentile, the median of all 9; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 72nd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up9
- 50th to 74th4
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
6 of their 17 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved4
- Divisive5
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser6
- Mixed1
Reviewers score the acting 67/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 85, detractors 55. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.