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Ayvianna Snow

actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ114754403 ↗
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Ayvianna Snow is a British-Irish actress known predominantly for her work in the horror genre. She was born in Derry, Northern Ireland. She trained at the Arden School of Theatre.

Film

Her first film appearance was in White Colour Black, directed by Joseph A. Adesunloye. White Colour Black was selected for the 2017 BFI London Film Festival and was nominated for two British Independent Film Awards.

She played Naomi in Retribution in 2017, a gangster movie starring Rishi Nair, Funda Önal, Calum Best and Alex Reid.

She followed this with an appearance as the nun Sister Lilith in 2018 British film The Convent, directed by Paul Hyett.

In 2019, she appeared in British horror film The Seven, starring American actor Dean Cain.

Snow also appeared as the antagonist of 2020 feature film Black Lake, which screened at the Renegade Film Festival where it won the Best Cinematography award.

In 2021, she appeared as the lead antagonist, in British-Indian horror film Barun Rai and the House on the Cliff opposite Priyanshu Chatterjee and Nyra Banerjee.

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Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2018, 2019, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ayvianna, Snow and actress can be independently traced.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q114754403. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ayvianna Snow” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.