Sarah Polley

Known for ActingBorn 1979-01-08 (age 47)Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Children First!

Teen Choice Awards

Road to Avonlea: The Movie

Road to Avonlea

The Studio

Lantern Hill

Mr. Nobody

The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen

Heaven On Earth

John Adams

Alias Grace

Slings & Arrows

Stories We Tell

Friday the 13th: The Series

Dawn of the Dead

Away from Her

The Secret Life of Words

Women Talking

Screen Two

Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power

Go

Johann's Gift to Christmas

The Sweet Hereafter

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

eXistenZ

Last Night

Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

Golden Globe Awards

Exotica

Dermott's Quest

The Oscars

Take This Waltz

This Might Be Good

Don't Come Knocking

Beethoven's Nine: Ode to Humanity

Jerry and Tom

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Hanging Garden

My Life Without Me

No Such Thing

& Sons

The Claim

The I Inside

Splice

The Hidden Room

Luck

Ramona

Seven Veils