SarahPolley (born on January 8, 1979, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress and director of short films.
Her disenchantment with Disney was rooted in an incident during the Gulf War, when she was invited by Disney to appear at a Children's Awards Show in Washington, DC.
Following the row with Disney, Polley dedicated more of her energy to left-wing politics, becoming a prominent member of the New Democratic Party, where maverick Ontario legislator Peter Kormos was said to be her political mentor.
SarahPolley is an actress and director renowned in her native Canada for her political activism.
Polley, who picked up a second Gemini Award for her performance in the TV series "Straight Up" (1996), subsequently quit acting and high school to turn her attention to politics, positioning herself on the extreme left of Canada's left-of-center New Democratic Party.
Polley is as renowned for her intelligence as for her remarkable talent.
Sarah's role after Babar was one many actresses her age only dream of.
This isn't Sarah's only brush with health problems, she had two of her teeth knocked out as a result of the riot squads dispersion of a peaceful protest outside of Torontos Queen's Park.
Sarah saw two films released in 1999 - Go, a movie fusing hot music with a solid plot was a sleeper hit with the rave generation with Sarahs portrayal of a grocery cashier by day, and a risk-taking raver by night was refreshing and long overdue.
Polley, who has appeared in such features as Dawn of the Dead and The Sweet Hereafter, appeared before the Commons heritage committee when it made a stop in Toronto on Wednesday.
Among Polley's recommendations to the government is a proposal to force theatres to devote more screens to Canadian-made pictures, and to screen trailers for those films.
Polley is no stranger to politics, having used her star power in the past to campaign for the NDP.
And while Polley's experienced quite a bit, the film has the Canadian actress thinking about what she can achieve next as an entertainer and activist although you may not want to call her that.
In her short life Polley has certainly made the most of every moment, taking time out of her busy schedule to support the causes she believes in.
Polley told Canada AM that she prefers not to call herself an activist.
Known as much for her intelligence as for her talent, Canadian actressSarahPolley has been wowing television and film audiences since she was barely out of diapers.
Polley drew her share of praise for her performance as the paralyzed survivor of a catastrophic bus accident and soon Hollywood was courting the waifishly unconventional actress, whom one critic remarked looked like Uma Thurman's wiser younger sister.
In 2000, Polley returned to Canada to star in Kathryn Bigelow's The Weight of Water, a drama about the efforts of a photojournalist and her husband (Catherine McCormack and Sean Penn) to investigate a 19th century murder.
SarahPolley was born on January 8, 1979 to Michael and Diane Polley, the youngest of five children by eight years.
She comes from a family experienced in acting, Michael Polley is an actor himself, and Diane was an actress and casting agent until she died from cancer when Sarah was eleven.
Sarah's first acting experience was at age four when she appeared as Molly Monaghan in Disney's 'One Magic Christmas'....
SarahPolley stars as one of a group of survivors that barricades itself in a shopping mall to keep out marauding killer zombies bent on getting inside.
The movie starts out as a nurse named Ana played by Sarah Polley("Go") is trying to leave the hospital she works at to get home to her husband because it is their 'special' night.
Though this is a purposely grade 'B' movie there are some nice performances by SarahPolley, especially of note are her character's interactions with not so nice Steve.
Her body is shown lying behind the counter afterwards.
The movie fades to white on a close-up of her face before her death, followed by a sequence of the other characters going about their lives while a tape-recording by Sarah plays as a voiceover.
The movie ends with video-camera footage of the zombies closing in, interspersed with the closing credits, so her fate is only strongly implied rather than actually confirmed.
But Polley herself tries to separate herself from all that and says she has no interest whatsoever in becoming a movie star.
Polley now appears in Audrey Wells directorial debut Guinevere that takes an unusual look at a mentor/love relationship which is both rewarding yet opportunistic.
Harper (Polley) is an insecure young woman who meets a charming, Irish photographer, Connie (Stephen Rea), thirty years her senior, who sweeps her off her feet and saves her from a life of ordinariness.
Paul Giamatti, SarahPolley and Michael Pitt will head the cast of "The Hawk Is Dying," which Julian Goldberg is directing for Antidote Films and This Is That.
SarahPolley still remembers the meeting she took with Zack Snyder and Eric Newman -- the director and producer of the zombie film Dawn Of The Dead -- as "the greatest pitch I've heard...
Four years ago, the Cannes Film Festival was the coming-of-age experience that celebrated Toronto actressSarahPolley needed in order to come to terms with the dark side of movie stardom.
SARAHPOLLEY plays MERLE, game project manager for TranscendenZ, an eXistenZ competitor.
From Doug Liman, the director of Swingers, a story of what happens after a drug deal, told from three different perspectives.
Organized a meeting concerning possible private health care, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with actressSarahPolley, and band members from Tragically Hip.
Even secondary characters like Debbie Harry were right-on, as the cynical mom still living in the past, and the new neighbor, played by Leonor Watling, who delivered a passionate speech about one memorable event at the hospital that broke my heart.
As the centerpiece, the most crucial part of this story, Polley came across as a strong, yet sensitive, woman-child, who never really had the chance to do all the things most "regular girls" her age were doing.
In various scenes, she managed to portray the vast gamut of emotions that you would expect from someone in her position and had me "gulping up" on more than one occasion.
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Born the youngest of five to actor Michael Polley and actor-casting agent Diane Polley, Sarah was initially discouraged from joining the family profession, but she knew what she wanted by the ripe old age of four.
Thus Polley made her screen debut soon thereafter in "One Magic Christmas" (1985)....
She has also appeared in "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" by Terry Gilliam, and Atom Egoyan's "The Sweet Hereafter" Her American breakthrough came when Sarah appeared in the 1999 American action comedy hit "Go".
Sarah was also fllisted by Disney for refusing to remove a "Peace" sign she was wearing during a children's award show dinner that took place during the Gulf War.
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