Sarah Polley
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Born | Sarah Ellen Polley January 8, 1979 , Canada |
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Sarah Ellen Polley OC (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, political activist and retired actress.[1] 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.[2] Polley's second film, Take This Waltz (2011), premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival,[3] followed by her first documentary film, Stories We Tell (2012). She also wrote the miniseries Alias Grace,[4] based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood.[5] 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.[6]
Early life and education
Sarah Ellen Polley was born on January 8, 1979 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,[7][8] the youngest of five children born to Diane Elizabeth Polley (née MacMillan). Her siblings are Susy and John Buchan from Diane's first marriage to George Deans-Buchan, and Mark and Joanna Polley from her second marriage to Michael Polley (1933–2018), a British-born actor who became an insurance agent after starting a family with Diane.[9][10]
Her mother was an actress (best known for playing Gloria Beechham in 44 episodes of the Canadian TV series Street Legal) and a casting director. She died of cancer the week of Polley's 11th birthday in 1990.[11]
Polley suffered from severe scoliosis as a child and underwent a spinal operation at 15 that required her to spend the next year in bed recovering.[12]
Polley was raised by Diane and Michael.
Polley attended Subway Academy II, then Earl Haig Secondary School, but dropped out at age 15.[14] By the age of 15 she was living on her own and credits the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty for housing her and developing her work with activism.[21]
Career
Early career
Her first appearance on screen was at the age of four,[22] as Molly in the film One Magic Christmas. She was in the pilot episode for Friday the 13th – The Series and appeared in a small role in William Fruet's sci-fi horror film Blue Monkey, both in 1987. At age of eight, she was cast as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona, based on Beverly Cleary's books.
That same year, she played one of the lead characters in
In 1994 Polley made her theatre debut at the Stratford Festival playing Alice in Alice Through the Looking Glass, an adaptation of Lewis Carroll's book of the same name.[25] Polley ended her run early, claiming complications from scoliosis. In 2022 she revealed she had in fact been suffering from intense stage fright, something that continued to plague her into adulthood.[26]
Transition into more adult roles
Polley appeared as Lily on the CBC television series
In 1998, Polley appeared in the critically acclaimed film
In 2005, she starred in The Secret Life of Words, opposite Tim Robbins and Julie Christie. She was nominated as Best European Actress by the European Film Academy for her role as Hanna.[28]
In 2006, Polley took a role on the acclaimed series
In 2008, Polley appeared as
Though Polley never officially announced her retirement from acting, she has not taken an acting role since 2010, transitioning into a writing and directing career.
Directing career
In 1999, Polley made her first short film, The Best Day of My Life,
Away from Her was acquired by
Polley wrote and directed her second feature, Take This Waltz starring Michelle Williams, Luke Kirby, Seth Rogen, and Sarah Silverman, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011.
Her documentary film Stories We Tell premiered at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in competition in the Venice Days category, and its North American premiere followed at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.[32] The critically acclaimed documentary examined family secrets in Polley's own childhood.[19] She was awarded the CAN$100,000 prize for best Canadian film of the year by the Toronto Film Critics Association.[19] In 2017, Polley executive produced the film A Better Man (2017),[33]
In late 2012, Polley announced that she would be adapting Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace.[5] Polley first wrote to Atwood asking to adapt the novel when she was 17. They held off for 20 years until she was ready to make the show.[34] In August 2014, during a profile of her work as a director, Polley announced that Alias Grace was being adapted into a six-part miniseries.[35] In June 2016, the series was confirmed with Polley writing and producing. The series premiered in 2017 on CBC Television in Canada; it streams on Netflix globally, outside of Canada.[36] It received positive reviews from critics.[4]
In June 2014, it was announced that she would be writing and directing an adaptation of John Green's Looking for Alaska.[37] In March 2015, Polley was hired to write the script for a new adaptation of Little Women, as well as potentially direct;[38] however, Polley's involvement in the project never went beyond initial discussions, despite reports.[39] In her 2022 essay collection Run Towards the Danger, Polley revealed she had been working on a second draft of the Little Women screenplay when she had a traumatic head injury resulting in post-concussion syndrome that left her with symptoms for four years so she was temporarily unable to work. It was subsequently announced in June that, due to scheduling conflicts, Polley would no longer be directing Looking for Alaska.[40][41]
In an interview, Polley stated that she takes pride in her work and enjoys both acting and directing, but is not keen on combining the two:
I like the feeling of keeping them separate. I find that really gratifying. I can't imagine combining those. For me, I love the feeling of using different parts of my brain separately.[42]
In a 2015 retrospective of the movie Go, Mike D'Angelo of The A.V. Club commented that Polley's decision to go into directing had "deprived the world of many potentially great performances", calling her a "superb actor".[43] In December 2020, it was announced Polley would direct Women Talking based upon the novel of the same name by Miriam Toews for Orion Pictures.[44] It premiered at the 49th Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2022, and went into wide release on December 23, 2022.[45][46] It was released to widespread acclaim, with 90% of critics giving it a positive review on Rotten Tomatoes.[47] Shirley Li of The Atlantic called it "vibrant cinema," while Anna Bogutskaya of Time Out said that it "imagines female emancipation as an honest, raging, caring experience."[48][49] Polley won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 95th Academy Awards, and the film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
In 2023, Polley was revealed to be in talks to direct Disney's live action adaptation of Bambi.[50]
Writing career
Polley has written numerous essays over the years about her experiences as a child star. In 2022, she released her first book of essays, the autobiographical,
Political and social activism
Following the row with Disney as a twelve-year-old for wearing a peace sign to protest against the Gulf War, Polley dedicated more of her efforts to politics, becoming a prominent member of the Ontario New Democratic Party (ONDP), where Ontario legislator Peter Kormos was her political mentor. In 1996, she gave a nomination speech for Kormos at the ONDP leadership convention which she later referred to as the "proudest moment in [her] life".[52]
In 1995, she lost two back teeth after being struck by a riot police officer during a protest against the provincial Progressive Conservative government of Mike Harris in Queen's Park.[10][53] She was subsequently involved with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. She subsequently scaled back her political activism.[53] She was part of a group in 2001 which opposed the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas. The 3rd Summit of the Americas was held in Quebec City in April 2001.[54] In 2003, she was part of former Toronto mayor David Miller's transition advisory team.
In 2009, Polley directed a two-minute short film in support of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. In advance of the film's airing in Canada during the 82nd Academy Awards, and following news reports that characterized the film as a marketing exercise for the margarine company Becel,[55][56][57] Polley withdrew her association with the film. "In December 2009, I made a film to be aired during the Academy Awards that I believed was to promote the Heart and Stroke Foundation. When I agreed to make this film ["The Heart"], I was thrilled, as I was proud to be associated with the work of this incredible organization. However, I have since learned that my film is also being used to promote a product. Regretfully, I am forced to remove my name from the film and disassociate myself from it. I have never actively promoted any corporate brand, and cannot do so now."[58][59][60] In response, Becel said it was a "founding sponsor" of the Heart Truth campaign and had commissioned the film "to put heart health on the radar of Canadian women".[61]
In January 2012, Polley endorsed Toronto MP Peggy Nash in the 2012 New Democratic Party leadership race to succeed Jack Layton.[62]
On October 15, 2017, Polley wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times detailing her experience with Harvey Weinstein and with Hollywood's treatment of women generally, and making a connection between Hollywood's gendered power relations and Polley's not having acted in years.[63]
Personal life
Paternity revelations
In 2007, Polley discovered that her father, Michael Polley, who had raised her, was not her biological father. The story of her mother's affair and her biological father Harry Gulkin, producer of the film Lies My Father Told Me (1975), was chronicled in Polley's film Stories We Tell (2012).[14]
Marriages and children
On September 10, 2003, Polley married Canadian film editor David Wharnsby, her boyfriend of seven years. They divorced five years later, in 2008.[64]
On August 23, 2011, Polley married David Sandomierski.They have three children together.[65][66]
Alleged sexual assault by Jian Ghomeshi
In 2022, Polley said that she had been sexually assaulted by then Moxy Früvous singer Jian Ghomeshi while on a date when she was 16 and he was 28. She was dissuaded by family and friends from coming forward with her experiences, but ultimately chose to do so in her autobiographical essay collection Run Towards the Danger.[67][68]
Religious views
Polley is an
Filmography
Short film
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer |
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1999 | Don't Think Twice | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The Best Day of My Life | Yes | Yes | No | |
2001 | I Shout Love | Yes | Yes | No |
2002 | All I Want for Christmas | Yes | No | No |
2013 | Making a Scene | No | Yes | No |
Feature film
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Executive Producer |
Notes |
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2006 | Away from Her | Yes | Yes | No | Feature directorial debut Nominated — Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay |
2011 | Take This Waltz | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2012 | Stories We Tell | Yes | Yes | No | Documentary feature |
2022 | Women Talking | Yes | Yes | No | Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay |
Acting roles
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1985 | One Magic Christmas | Molly Monaghan | |
1986 | Confidential | Emma | |
1987 | Tomorrow's a Killer | Karla | |
The Big Town | Christy Donaldson | ||
Blue Monkey | Ellen | ||
1988 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Sally Salt | |
1989 | Babar: The Movie | Young Celeste (voice) | |
1994 | Exotica | Tracey Brown | |
1996 | Joe's So Mean to Josephine | Josephine | |
Children First! | |||
1997 | The Sweet Hereafter | Nicole Burnell | |
The Hanging Garden | Rosemary (teen) | ||
The Planet of Junior Brown | Butter | ||
1998 | Jerry and Tom | Deb | |
Last Night | Jennifer 'Jenny' Wheeler | ||
Guinevere | Harper Sloane | ||
1999 | Go | Ronna Martin | |
Existenz | Merle | ||
The Life Before This | Connie | ||
2000 | The Weight of Water | Maren Hontvedt | |
Love Come Down | Sister Sarah | ||
The Law of Enclosures | Beatrice | ||
The Claim | Hope Dillon | ||
This Might Be Good | Short film | ||
2001 | No Such Thing | Beatrice | |
2003 | The Event | Dana Shapiro | |
My Life Without Me | Ann | ||
Dermott's Quest | Gwen | Short film | |
Luck | Margaret | ||
2004 | Dawn of the Dead | Ana Clark | |
The I Inside | Clair | ||
Sugar | Pregnant Girl | ||
Siblings | Tabby | ||
2005 | Don't Come Knocking | Sky | |
The Secret Life of Words | Hanna | ||
Beowulf & Grendel | Selma | ||
2009 | Mr. Nobody | Elise (adult) | |
Splice | Elsa Kast | ||
2010 | Trigger | Hillary |
Television
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
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2004 | The Shields Stories | Yes | Yes | No | Episode: "The Harp" |
2017 | Alias Grace | No | Yes | Yes | Miniseries |
2020 | Hey Lady! | Yes | No | No | 8 episodes |
Executive producer
- Secret Path (2016) (TV movie)
- A Better Man (2017) (Documentary)
Acting roles
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1985 | Night Heat | Cindy Keating | Episode: "The Game" |
1986 | The Incredible Time Travels of Henry Osgood | ||
1987 | Heaven on Earth | Becky Hawthorne | TV film |
1987 | Hands of a Stranger | Suzie Hearn | TV film |
1987 | Friday the 13th: The Series | Mary | Episode: "The Inheritance" |
1988–89 | Ramona | Ramona Quimby | Lead role |
1989 | Lantern Hill | Jody Turner | TV film |
1990–96 | Road to Avonlea | Sara Stanley | Main role (seasons 1–5), guest (seasons 6–7) |
1991 | Johann's Gift to Christmas | Angel | TV short |
1993 | The Hidden Room
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Alice | Episode: "Dangerous Dreams" |
1994 | Take Another Look | Amy | TV film |
1996 | Straight Up | Lily | TV series |
1998 | White Lies | Catherine Chapman | TV film |
1999 | Made in Canada | Rhonda | Episode: "It's a Science" |
2006 | Slings & Arrows | Sophie | Regular role (season 3) |
2008 | John Adams | Abigail Adams Smith | TV miniseries |
Awards and nominations
On October 16, 2010, it was announced that she would receive a star on
Year | Association | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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2008 | Academy Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Away from Her | Nominated | [73] |
2023 | Women Talking | Won | [74] | ||
2006 | ACTRA | ACTRA Toronto Award of Excellence | Won | ||
2020 | ACTRA Woman of the Year | Won | [75] | ||
2007 | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Director | Away from Her | Nominated | |
Best Woman Director | Won | ||||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Nominated | ||||
Women's Image Award | Herself | Won | |||
Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in 2007 | Nominated | ||||
Best Leap from Actress to Director Award | Won | ||||
2012 | Best Woman Director | Take This Waltz | Nominated | ||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Nominated | ||||
2013 | Best Documentary | Stories We Tell | Won | ||
Best Woman Director | Nominated | ||||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Nominated | ||||
2023 | Critics' Choice Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Women Talking | Won | [76] |
1988 | Gemini Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role | Ramona | Nominated | |
1990 | Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role | Road to Avonlea | Nominated | ||
1992 | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role | Lantern Hill | Won | ||
1993 | Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role | Road to Avonlea | Nominated | ||
1994 | Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role | Nominated | |||
1998 | Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series | Straight Up | Won | ||
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series | The Planet of Junior Brown | Nominated | |||
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series | White Lies | Nominated | |||
2007 | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series | Slings and Arrows
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Nominated | ||
1997 | Genie Awards | Best Original Song | The Sweet Hereafter | Nominated | |
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated | ||||
2002 | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role | The Law of Enclosures | Nominated | ||
2003 | Best Live Action Short Drama | I Shout Love | Won | ||
2004 | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role | My Life Without Me | Won | ||
2008 | Claude Jutra Award (Special Prize) | Away from Her | Won | ||
2008 | Best Director | Won | |||
2008 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Won | |||
2023 | Golden Globe Awards | Best Screenplay - Motion Picture | Women Talking | Nominated | |
2000 | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Supporting Female | Go | Nominated | |
2023 | Robert Altman Award | Women Talking | Won | [77] | |
2012 | Toronto Film Critics Association Awards | Rogers Canadian Film Award | Stories We Tell | Won | [19] |
Best Documentary Film Award | Won | [19] | |||
2014 | Writers Guild of America Awards | Best Documentary Screenplay | Won | [78] | |
2023 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Women Talking | Won | [79] |
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External links
Media related to Sarah Polley at Wikimedia Commons
- Sarah Polley at IMDb