Sarah Polley

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.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	13.101
Birthday	1979-01-08
Place of Birth	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Also Known As	사라 폴리, 세라 폴리, 莎拉·波利,

My Life Without Me

The Secret Life of Words

Dawn of the Dead

Go

No Such Thing

Guinevere

The Law of Enclosures

This Might Be Good

White Lies

The Sweet Hereafter

Mr. Nobody

The I Inside

Splice

Joe's So Mean to Josephine

Luck

Road to Avonlea: The Movie

Johann's Gift to Christmas

Children First!

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Wrath of Gods

The Life Before This

Heaven On Earth

The Weight of Water

Don't Come Knocking

Exotica

The Event

The Claim

Last Night

Trigger

Lantern Hill

The Planet of Junior Brown

The Hanging Garden

Sugar

eXistenZ

Babar: The Movie

Jerry and Tom

Pretty Kill

Preludes

Love Come Down

Siblings

Confidential

One Magic Christmas

Hands of a Stranger

The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen

Beowulf & Grendel

Blue Monkey

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

The Big Town

Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

Stories We Tell