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Sarah Polley
🎂 Jan 8, 1979 (47)
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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.
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Oscars
36
Movies
6
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Dawn of the Dead
2004
Mr. Nobody
2009
eXistenZ
1999
Splice
2010
Go
1999
Exotica
1994
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988
Beowulf & Grendel
2005
The Sweet Hereafter
1997
My Life Without Me
2003
The Claim
2000
The Weight of Water
2001
Guinevere
1999
Last Night
1998
The Big Town
1987
One Magic Christmas
1985
The Secret Life of Words
2005
The I Inside
2004
Don't Come Knocking
2005
Sugar
2004
No Such Thing
2002
Trigger
2010
Blue Monkey
1987
The Event
2003
Jerry and Tom
1998
The Life Before This
1999
Luck
2004
The Planet of Junior Brown
1997
Love Come Down
2000
Pretty Kill
1987
The Law of Enclosures
2000
Babar: The Movie
1989
Joe's So Mean to Josephine
1997
The Hanging Garden
1997
Confidential
1986
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Sarah Polley
1979-01-08 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.Sarah Polley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.