Lissa Carandang-Sweeney
Lissa Carandang-Sweeney is a mixed Filipino-American actor, producer, and costume designer based in New York City and raised in the greater Philadelphia region. Her debut as both lead actor and producer on the feature film Alice-Heart deepened her commitment to both disciplines, earning her Slamdance Film Festival’s 2025 Outstanding Acting Award, while the film received the festival’s Narrative Feature Grand Jury Honorable Mention.
- Known for
- Acting
Known for
- Super Hot (2021) — Monica
- We Are Living Things (2021) — Karaoke Girl
- Alice-Heart (2025) — Alice-Heart
- Please, Smile (2025) — Luna
- Long Beach Island (2022) — Alice
- Fiber Optics (2022) — Marlene
- Scratch-Off (2023) — Nurse
- Practice Space (2024) — Neighbor
- We Are the Vessels of Each Other’s Melancholies (2024)
- Crescendo In (2024) — Claire
- Total Immersion (2021) — Emily
- I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn (2025) — TJ
- Buckets of Fun — Susan
- Between Rivers — Sam
- Untitled Dan Perlman Project
- Hazy, Hot & Stupid (2025) — Producer