Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1979-01-08 (Age: 47)
Place of Birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sarah Polley
Biography
Sarah Ellen Polley OC (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker, political activist and retired actress. She first garnered attention as a child actress for her role as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona, based on Beverly Cleary's books. This subsequently led to her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series Road to Avonlea (1990–1996). She has starred in many feature films, including The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Guinevere (1999), Go (1999), The Weight of Water (2000), No Such Thing (2001), My Life Without Me (2003), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Splice (2009), and Mr. Nobody (2009). Polley made her feature film directorial debut with Away from Her (2006), for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Director and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Polley's second film, Take This Waltz (2011), premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, followed by her first documentary film, Stories We Tell (2012). She also wrote the miniseries Alias Grace, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood. In 2022, Polley wrote and directed the film Women Talking, based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sarah Polley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (52)
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
2019
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
Stories We Tell
2012
Trigger
2010
Splice
2010
Mr. Nobody
2009
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
2008
Wrath of Gods
2007
The Secret Life of Words
2005
Beowulf & Grendel
2005
Don't Come Knocking
2005Siblings
2004
Sugar
2004
Luck
2004
