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

Born: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1979-01-08

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1985	One Magic Christmas	Molly Monaghan	58
2	1986	Confidential	Emma (child)	24
3	1987	Heaven On Earth	Becky Hawthorne	0
4	1987	Pretty Kill	Karla	17
5	1987	Hands of a Stranger	Suzie Hearn	48
6	1987	Blue Monkey	Ellen	49
7	1987	The Big Town	Christy Donaldson	55
8	1988	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Sally Salt	70
9	1989	Babar: The Movie	Young Celeste	58
10	1989	Lantern Hill	Jody Turner	80
11	1990	Road to Avonlea: The Movie		90
12	1992	Johann's Gift to Christmas	The Angel	50
13	1994	Exotica	Tracey	66
14	1996	Children First!	Host	0
15	1997	Joe's So Mean to Josephine	Josephine	44
16	1997	The Hanging Garden	Teen Rosemary	64
17	1997	The Planet of Junior Brown	Butter	40
18	1997	The Sweet Hereafter	Nicole Burnell	69
19	1998	White Lies	Catherine	53
20	1998	Last Night	Jennifer Wheeler	66
21	1998	Jerry and Tom	Deb	61
22	1999	Go	Ronna Martin	70
23	1999	eXistenZ	Merle	68
24	1999	Guinevere	Harper Sloane	59
25	1999	The Life Before This	Connie	45
26	2000	Love Come Down	Sister Sarah	52
27	2000	This Might Be Good		0
28	2000	The Weight of Water	Maren Hontvedt	55
29	2000	The Law of Enclosures	Beatty 'Beatrice'	51
30	2000	Preludes		0
31	2000	The Claim	Hope Burn	60
32	2002	No Such Thing	Beatrice	59
33	2003	The Event	Dana Shapiro	59
34	2003	Dermott's Quest	Gwen	60
35	2003	My Life Without Me	Ann	61
36	2004	Dawn of the Dead	Ana	71
37	2004	The I Inside	Clair	59
38	2004	Luck	Margaret	52
39	2004	Sugar	Pregnant Girl	49
40	2004	Siblings	Tabby	51
41	2005	Don't Come Knocking	Sky	62
42	2005	Beowulf & Grendel	Selma	56
43	2005	The Secret Life of Words	Hanna	70
44	2007	Wrath of Gods	Self	50
45	2008	The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen	Self - 'Sally Salt'	78
46	2009	Mr. Nobody	Adult Elise	78
47	2010	Splice	Elsa	59
48	2010	Trigger	Hillary	48
49	2012	Stories We Tell	Self (uncredited)	71
50	2014	Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women	Self	65
51	2019	Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power	Self - Filmmaker	68

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
2	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
3	1987	Friday the 13th: The Series	Mary	73
4	1988	Ramona	Ramona	57
5	1990	Road to Avonlea	Sara Stanley	82
6	1999	Teen Choice Awards	Self - Nominee	100
7	2003	Slings & Arrows	Sophie	74
8	2008	John Adams	Abigail Adams Smith	77
9	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
10	2021	Variety Studio: Directors on Directors	Self	0
11	2025	The Studio	Sarah Polley	76

Sarah Polley

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Television