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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.162 |
| Birthday | 1979-01-08 |
| Place of Birth | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Also Known As | 세라 폴리, 莎拉·波利, Sara Polley, |
2003
My Life Without Me
6/460
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.
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My Life Without Me
2005
The Secret Life of Words
6.9/201
A touching story of a deaf girl who is sent to an oil rig to take care of a man who has been blinded in a terrible accident. The girl has a special ab...
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The Secret Life of Words
2004
Dawn of the Dead
7.1/3981
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
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Dawn of the Dead
1997
The Sweet Hereafter
6.9/384
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives...
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The Sweet Hereafter
2005
Don't Come Knocking
6.2/110
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and y...
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Don't Come Knocking
1999
eXistenZ
6.8/1906
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been dam...
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eXistenZ
1994
Exotica
6.6/328
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, th...
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Exotica
2009
Mr. Nobody
7.817/5803
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
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Mr. Nobody
2004
The I Inside
5.946/258
When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his br...
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The I Inside
1999
Go
6.9/692
Grocery store clerk Simon occasionally sells drugs from his cash register at work, so when soap opera actors Adam and Zack come looking for Ecstasy on...
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Go
1985
One Magic Christmas
5.8/98
Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gid...
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One Magic Christmas
2001
The Weight of Water
5.5/165
A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.
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The Weight of Water
2003
The Event
5.9/15
Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a musician who had AIDS. As she questions Matt's loya...
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The Event
2002
No Such Thing
5.931/58
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.
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No Such Thing
1989
Babar: The Movie
5.8/42
Children's book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's most beloved elephant comes to the big screen in this animated family tale. Elephant monarch Ki...
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Babar: The Movie
1988
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
6.954/876
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1999
Guinevere
5.9/34
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
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Guinevere
2010
Splice
5.879/2230
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together huma...
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Splice
2000
The Claim
6/89
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who...
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The Claim
1998
Last Night
6.587/144
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
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Last Night
1987
Heaven On Earth
0/0
An armful of destitute orphans transported to the New World at the turn of the century. This is the turbulent and moving story of four British 'bricks...
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Heaven On Earth
2010
Trigger
5.1/17
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
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Trigger
1998
White Lies
5.4/4
How can a smart middle class girl suddenly turn into a devoted right wing debater? That's what happens with Catherine when she meets the charismatic l...
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White Lies
1997
Joe's So Mean to Josephine
4.2/4
Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it...
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Joe's So Mean to Josephine
1998
Jerry and Tom
6.1/33
Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business,...
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Jerry and Tom
2007
Wrath of Gods
5/4
When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgard in 2004, they expecte...
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Wrath of Gods
1987
Blue Monkey
5.1/30
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency ro...
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Blue Monkey
2004
Siblings
5.4/14
Joe and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this...
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Siblings
2012
Stories We Tell
7.1/211
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends who...
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Stories We Tell
1987
Pretty Kill
1.8/6
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes while at the same time having to deal with his girlfriend's mental proble...
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Pretty Kill
2000
This Might Be Good
0/0
A festival is a concentration of hope. Audiences hungering for something startingly new, famously familiar or just plain "good". Actors hoping their w...
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This Might Be Good
1989
Lantern Hill
8/1
In 1935 Toronto, Jane Stuart's mother has taken ill, and the two of them have temporarily moved in with her rich, snobbish grandmother, where Jane is...
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Lantern Hill
2000
Preludes
0/0
Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of te...
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Preludes
2005
Beowulf & Grendel
5.6/219
The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll. Out of allegiance to the King Hroth...
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Beowulf & Grendel
1999
The Life Before This
4.5/2
Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
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The Life Before This
1997
The Planet of Junior Brown
4.5/6
Powerful story about love, struggle and passion of an over protective mother and her piano prodigy.
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The Planet of Junior Brown
1996
Children First!
0/0
A collection of 7 animation short films inspired by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Each NFB award-winning film, in their pe...
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Children First!
2004
Luck
4.8/4
Shane Bradley, who is fixated on ideas of luck and destiny, tries to win the girl of his dreams. After their relationship falters, Shane begins to thi...
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Luck
1987
Hands of a Stranger
5.6/5
A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.
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Hands of a Stranger
1990
Road to Avonlea: The Movie
9/6
After her father is accused of embezzlement, wealthy Sara Stanley is sent to live with her deceased mother's relatives on Prince Edward Island. While...
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Road to Avonlea: The Movie
1986
Confidential
2.8/4
The year is 1949 and reporter Hugh Jameson is looking for a story. He focuses on Emma Porter, a woman who was accused of the axe murder of her father...
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Confidential
2000
The Law of Enclosures
5.143/7
Story of the same couple, first in their teenage years and then in their twilight years, paradoxically set in the same time during the backdrop of the...
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The Law of Enclosures
1992
Johann's Gift to Christmas
5/1
A mouse from the streets and a church mouse try to help a priest and an organist save Christmas by composing a Christmas carol.
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Johann's Gift to Christmas
2000
Love Come Down
6.4/7
Two brothers in their early 20s, one black, one white, each the other's keeper since their family was torn apart by a decade old tragedy. Neville is a...
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Love Come Down
2019
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
7/10
The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. Readers turn to her work for answers as they confr...
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Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
1997
The Hanging Garden
6.4/29
William, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it (and his family) ha...
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The Hanging Garden
2008
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
10/1
This is an all new feature length documentary, with interviews from almost everyone involved with the production of the film. Gilliam never shies away...
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The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
2004
Sugar
4.944/27
Cliff receives an unusual 18th birthday gift from his younger sister — marijuana, alcohol, a subway token and the mission to lose his virginity. This...
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Sugar
1987
The Big Town
5.4/49
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional ga...
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The Big Town
2014
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
6/3
Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind th...
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Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2003
Dermott's Quest
6/1
A man stuck in a rut takes his girlfriend to a medieval festival.
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