Sarah Polley
Sarah Polley (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian actress, singer, film director, and screenwriter. Polley first attained notice in her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea. She has also starred in such films as The Sweet Hereafter, Guinevere, Go, The Weight of Water, My Life Without Me, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Dawn of the Dead, Splice, and Mr. Nobody. Polley made her feature film directorial debut with Away from Her, for which she won a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction and was nominated for an 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.
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- Born:
- Jan 8, 1979 In Toronto - Ontario - Canada
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 53
- First Appeared:
- In the movie One Magic Christmas 1985-11-22
- Latest Project:
- Movie Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power 2019-11-07
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power | Self - Filmmaker | 2019-11-07 |
| Movie | Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women | Self | 2014-08-10 |
| Movie | Stories We Tell | Self (uncredited) | 2012-10-12 |
| Movie | Splice | Elsa | 2010-06-03 |
| Movie | Trigger | Hillary | 2010-09-12 |
| Movie | Mr. Nobody | Adult Elise | 2009-11-06 |
| Series | John Adams | Abigail Adams Smith | 2008-03-16 |
| Movie | The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen | Self - 'Sally Salt' | 2008-04-08 |
| Movie | Wrath of Gods | Self | 2007-05-06 |
| Movie | Don't Come Knocking | Sky | 2005-08-25 |
| Movie | Beowulf & Grendel | Selma | 2005-09-14 |
| Movie | The Secret Life of Words | Hanna | 2005-12-15 |
| Movie | Dawn of the Dead | Ana | 2004-03-19 |
| Movie | The I Inside | Clair | 2004-03-21 |
| Movie | Sugar | Pregnant Girl | 2004-05-22 |
| Movie | Luck | Margaret | 2004-04-30 |
| Movie | Siblings | Tabby | 2004-09-14 |
| Movie | The Event | Dana Shapiro | 2003-01-01 |
| Series | Slings & Arrows | Sophie | 2003-11-03 |
| Movie | My Life Without Me | Ann | 2003-03-07 |
| Movie | No Such Thing | Beatrice | 2002-03-29 |
| Movie | The Weight of Water | Maren Hontvedt | 2001-03-30 |
| Movie | Love Come Down | Sister Sarah | 2000-08-02 |
| Movie | The Claim | Hope Burn | 2000-12-29 |
| Movie | The Law of Enclosures | Beatty 'Beatrice' | 2000-09-15 |
| Movie | Preludes | 2000-11-15 | |
| Movie | Go | Ronna Martin | 1999-04-09 |
| Movie | eXistenZ | Merle | 1999-04-14 |
| Movie | The Life Before This | Connie | 1999-09-15 |
| Movie | Guinevere | Harper Sloane | 1999-09-12 |
| Movie | White Lies | Catherine | 1998-03-29 |
| Movie | Last Night | Jennifer Wheeler | 1998-10-23 |
| Movie | Jerry and Tom | Deb | 1998-12-04 |
| Movie | Joe's So Mean to Josephine | Josephine | 1997-01-18 |
| Movie | The Hanging Garden | Teen Rosemary | 1997-09-05 |
| Movie | The Sweet Hereafter | Nicole Burnell | 1997-09-25 |
| Movie | The Planet of Junior Brown | Butter | 1997-09-06 |
| Movie | Exotica | Tracey Brown | 1994-11-30 |
| Movie | Johann's Gift to Christmas | The Angel | 1992-09-25 |
| Movie | Road to Avonlea: The Movie | 1990-01-01 | |
| Series | Road to Avonlea | Sara Stanley | 1990-01-07 |
| Movie | Babar: The Movie | Young Celeste | 1989-07-28 |
| Movie | Lantern Hill | Jody Turner | 1989-08-29 |
| Series | Ramona | Ramona | 1988-09-10 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Sally Salt | 1988-12-07 |
| Movie | Pretty Kill | Karla | 1987-03-27 |
| Movie | Hands of a Stranger | Suzie Hearn | 1987-05-10 |
| Movie | Heaven On Earth | Becky Hawthorne | 1987-03-01 |
| Movie | The Big Town | Christy Donaldson | 1987-09-25 |
| Movie | Blue Monkey | Ellen | 1987-09-25 |
| Series | Friday the 13th: The Series | Unknown | 1987-10-03 |
| Movie | Confidential | Emma (child) | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | One Magic Christmas | Molly Monaghan | 1985-11-22 |