1979-01-08 ( 46 years old ) in 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.
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Movies
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014-08-10
Stories We Tell
2012-10-12
Trigger
2010-09-12
Splice
2010-06-03
Mr. Nobody
2009-11-06
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
2008-04-08
Wrath of Gods
2007-05-06
The Secret Life of Words
2005-12-15
Beowulf & Grendel
2005-09-14
Don't Come Knocking
2005-08-25
Siblings
2004-09-14
Sugar
2004-05-22
Luck
2004-04-30
The I Inside
2004-03-21
Dawn of the Dead
2004-03-19
My Life Without Me
2003-03-07
Dermott's Quest
2003-03-01
The Event
2003-01-01
No Such Thing
2002-03-29
The Claim
2000-12-29
Preludes
2000-11-15
The Law of Enclosures
2000-09-15
The Weight of Water
2000-09-09
This Might Be Good
2000-09-07
Love Come Down
2000-08-02
The Life Before This
1999-09-15
Guinevere
1999-09-12
eXistenZ
1999-04-14
Go
1999-04-09
Jerry and Tom
1998-12-04
Last Night
1998-10-23
White Lies
1998-03-29
The Sweet Hereafter
1997-09-25
The Planet of Junior Brown
1997-09-06
The Hanging Garden
1997-09-05
Joe's So Mean to Josephine
1997-01-18
Children First!
1996-01-01
Exotica
1994-09-29
Johann's Gift to Christmas
1992-09-25
Road to Avonlea: The Movie
1990-01-01
Lantern Hill
1989-08-29
Babar: The Movie
1989-07-28
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988-12-07
Blue Monkey
1987-09-25
The Big Town
1987-09-25
Hands of a Stranger
1987-05-10
Pretty Kill
1987-03-27
Heaven On Earth
1987-03-01
Confidential
1986-01-01
One Magic Christmas
1985-11-22
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