Sarah Polley

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Sarah Polley at the 66th Venice Film Festival 2009

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

life and career

Sarah Polley has four older siblings. Her parents, Diane and Michael, were actors, which brought her first roles as a child. At the age of four, she appeared in the Disney film If Dreams Were True (1985). At the age of nine she starred in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), a film by Terry Gilliam . When she was ten, she had a role in the television film The Power of a Child (1990). Shortly after her eleventh birthday, her mother died of cancer.

Polley devoted himself preferentially independent films . She shot several times with Atom Egoyan , whose Oscar- nominated film The Sweet Beyond (1997) brought her breakthrough. She then appeared in films by David Cronenberg , Michael Winterbottom , Isabel Coixet and Wim Wenders . Dawn of the Dead (2004), the remake of George A. Romero's classic Zombie , was her first major Hollywood film.

In 2006, Polley made her widely acclaimed directorial debut with the feature film On Her Side , for which she also wrote the screenplay. The film had its German premiere at the Berlinale 2007 in the Panorama section and was shown in German cinemas on December 6, 2007. In the same year she was appointed to the competition jury of the 60th Cannes Film Festival .

In 2017, the series Alias ​​Grace developed by her was published.

Polley was married to the film editor David Wharnsby from 2003 to 2008 . In August 2011 she married the lawyer David Sandomierski; Their daughter was born in 2012.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

Chlotrudis Awards

  • 1998: Nominated for Best Actress for The Sweet Beyond
  • 2000: Nominated for Best Actress for Go and Guinevere
  • 2004: Best Actress for My Life Without Me
  • 2008: Nominated for Best Actress for The Secret Life of Words

Other prices:

  • 1992: Gemini Award as supporting actress in The Power of a Child .
  • 1997: NBR Award with the acting ensemble from The Sweet Beyond .
  • 1998: Gemini Award for the episode Mortifying in the series Straight Up
  • 2003: Genie Award for I Shout Love
  • 2004: Genie Award as leading actress for My Life Without Me
  • At Goya 2004 nominated for Best Actress for My Life Without Me
  • At the European Film Awards 2006 nominated as Best Actress for The Secret Life of Words
  • The Academy Awards 2008 Oscar nomination for the screenplay of Away from Her
  • 2007: DGC Craft Award from Directors Guild of Canada for directing a feature film for By Your Side
  • 2007: WGC Award from the Writers Guild of Canada for the book in a feature film for By Your Side
  • 2008: Claude Jutra Award for At Her Side
  • 2008: Six Genie Awards for At Her Side , including Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Adapted Screenplay
  • 2013: New York Film Critics Circle Award for Stories We Tell (Best Documentary)
  • 2013: National Board of Review Award for Stories We Tell (Best Documentary)

Web links

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Polley, Sarah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Polley, Sarah Ellen (full name); Polley, Sarah E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actress, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario , Canada