Sarah Polley
Acting
Born 1979-01-08
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
79 credits
Academy Awards 1
Writers Guild of America 1
Governor General's Performing Arts Award 1
Officer of the Order of Canada 1
John Dunning Best First Feature Award 1
Canadian Comedy Award for Best Performance by a Female – Film 1
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won · 1 nominated
- 2023 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Won Women Talking
- 2008 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated Away from Her
Golden Globe Awards 1 nominated
- 2023 Best Screenplay Nominated Women Talking
Writers Guild of America 1 won
- 2023 Award Won Women Talking
Governor General's Performing Arts Award 1 won
- — Governor General's Performing Arts Award Won
Officer of the Order of Canada 1 won
- — Officer of the Order of Canada Won
John Dunning Best First Feature Award 1 won
- — John Dunning Best First Feature Award Won
Canadian Comedy Award for Best Performance by a Female – Film 1 won
- — Best Performance by a Female – Film Won
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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. 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.
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Filmography
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Acting
49 credits
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Golden Globe Awards
The Studio
Screen Two
The Oscars
Dawn of the Dead
Friday the 13th: The Series
Road to Avonlea
John Adams
Mr. Nobody
Splice
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Hidden Room
eXistenZ
Go
Directors on Directors
Exotica
Slings & Arrows
Beowulf & Grendel
The Sweet Hereafter
The I Inside
My Life Without Me
The Claim
The Big Town
Don't Come Knocking
Ramona
The Weight of Water
Stories We Tell
One Magic Christmas
Last Night
The Secret Life of Words
Blue Monkey
Wrath of Gods
Jerry and Tom
Babar: The Movie
Guinevere
Children First!
Hands of a Stranger
Trigger
No Such Thing
The Hanging Garden
White Lies
Sugar
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
The Event
Love Come Down
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
The Life Before This
The Planet of Junior Brown
Writing
8 credits
Alias Grace
Women Talking
Away from Her
Take This Waltz
Stories We Tell
& Sons
I Shout Love
The Bell Jar
Directing
7 credits
Other credits
3 credits
Producing
3 credits
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