sarah polley - ProfilesArchive

About Me

INTERVIEWER: Have your feelings about Hollywood changed as you've gotten older?
sarah polley: Well, I used to think it was a very organized place run by very evil people. And now I think it's a really disorganized place run by a lot of evil people and a few really great ones...
sarah polley is the youngest of five children, and has two older brothers and two sisters. there's an eight-year age gap between Polley and the next youngest sibling.
sarah polley -born january 8 1979, toronto, ontario, canada
brother is mark polley, actor. sarah's mother, diane polley, died of cancer january 10 1990, 2 days after sarah's 11th birthday.
NOTE: THIS IS A FAN APPRECIATION SITE, WITH NO CONNECTION TO SARAH POLLEY. alot of fans are interested in her work as a actress and political activist (she actually had several teeth knocked by police at a demonstration in canada), but outside of a few published interviews, there's not much detail on her.
perhaps this is why: sarah polley: "there's something so creepy and intimidating about somebody knowing your name and things about you, and you knowing nothing about them. I have no idea why people want to be famous. All I can see is that it brings a kind of captivity."
in an interview about her film My Life Without Me: the thing I love most (about My Life Without Me), is it goes against this trend in American films of making fun of people who are seen as "trailer trash." I find that really offensive. It's the last taboo. We can't laugh at people because of their race--that's outrageous--but we can still laugh at them because of their class? My character lives in a trailer and has two kids and is a completely normal, unpathetic person."

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born january 8 1979 in toronto, sarah polley won her 1st acting part at six, in disney's One Magic Christmas. then, after a starring role in the canadian tv series Ramona, polley began her career in feature films.

her first film was Big Town, with matt dillon in 1987. in 1989, she was cast in terry gilliam's lavish production, TheAdventures of Baron Munchausen. audiences may be most familiar with her in 1997's The Sweet Hereafter, in which she won critical raves in an emotionally complex part.

1985 made film debut in One Magic Christmas (in a small part) 1988 starred in canadian television show Ramona 1988 played sally salt in Adventure of Munchausen 1990 played sara stanley in canadian series The Road to Avonlea (shown in the US on the disney channel) 1994 sarah's 1st onstage performance, as alice in Alice Through the Looking Glass, based on lew carrol stories 1994 has small part in atom egoyan's Erotica 1994 just 15 years old, sarah becomes an emancipated minor, and moves out on her own 1994 has surgery for scoliosis, a painful recurrent back problem 1996 drops out of 12th grade. 1997 re-teams with egoyan for masterful film The Sweet Hereafter 1998 supporting part in dark canadian comedy Last Night 1999 stars in Go and Guinevere (both exceptional films; both premiered at the sundance festival 2000 stars in The Weight of Water, playing a woman from the 19th century, against the backdrop of a murder trial 2000 sarah polley writes, co-produces and directs the short feature Don't Think Twice (which open at sundance) 2000 in what some see as an offbeat decision compared to her other acting choices, sarah co-stars with ving rhimes in Dawn of the Dead, the 1978 horror movie remake. (in interviews, polley makes reference to the films' characters being "victims of their consumerism."

in addition to acting, sarah polley is a gifted singer. her eerie, atmospheric cover of tragically hip's song courage, is featured in the soundtrack for the Sweet Hereafter.