Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley OC ( born January 8, 1979 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a Canadian actress, director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Sarah Polley has four older siblings. Her parents, Diane and Michael, were actors, what her first roles as a child earned. At the age of four, she appeared in the Disney film When dreams were true (1985 ) on. At age nine, she starred in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988 ), a film by Terry Gilliam. At ten, she had a role in the TV movie The Power of a Child (1990 ). Shortly after her eleventh birthday her mother died of cancer.

Polley devoted himself preferred independent films. Multiple they turned with Atom Egoyan, whose Oscar -nominated film The Sweet Hereafter (1997) earned her breakthrough. Afterwards, she starred in the films of David Cronenberg, Michael Winterbottom, Isabel Coixet and Wim Wenders. Dawn of the Dead (2004), the remake of the classic zombie from George A. Romero, was her first big Hollywood movie.

In 2006, Polley their well- acclaimed directorial debut with the feature film Away From Her, to which she also wrote the screenplay. The film experienced at the 2007 Berlinale in the Panorama section its premiere in Germany and ran on 6 December 2007 in German cinemas on. In the same year she was appointed to the jury of the 60th Cannes Film Festival.

Polley was married his first wife, from 2003 to 2008 with the film editor David Wharnsby. In August 2011 she married the lawyer David Sandomierz, 2012 was their daughter to the world.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

Chlotrudis Awards

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