Celebrity Biographies
Sarah Polley
Sarah Polley sings, writes, performs and directs. Everything does well. This young and beautiful actress has a varied and interesting film career. Her name is linked to the most intimate original cinema. She has worked with directors of a high level such as Wim Wenders or Isabel Coixet.
His Canadian roots can already be seen on his face, as well as his artistic abilities that allow us to recognize the blood that runs through his veins. Polley was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1979, the daughter of British actor Michael Polley and actress and casting director Diane Polley. However, as an adult, she discovered that her real biological father was actually film producer Harry Gulkin. She began to be part of the world of television from a very young age but she did not know success until she starred in the popular CBC series Road to Avonlea (1990). Thanks to her role, the actress became famous and earned the affection of the press.
After seven years on the show, Polley left the project furious at the ‘Americanization’ the series had suffered after it was bought by the Disney channel for distribution in the United States. It was then that she focused on left-wing politics and working on the new democratic party. During this stage of her life, she carried out little activity in the cinema, such as her appearance in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), by the eccentric Terry Gilliam . After several years characterized by clashes with Disney, the police and the conservative party, the actress returned to acting with El dulce porvernir (1997), which garnered good reviews at the Sundance Film Festival.
Two years after his return, he was part of the cast of EXistenZ , by the always controversial David Cronenberg . In 1999 she also starred with Katie Holmes in the comedy Living Without Limits . It was a year later that Kathryn Bigelow , before speaking about defusing bombs in Iraq in the film The Hostile Land (2009), shot a maritime thriller, The Weight of Water , (2000), in which Polley had a supporting role.
My life without me (2003) marked his first collaboration with the Spanish director Isabel Coixet . Very interesting film in which the actress plays the leading role of Ann, a woman with a gray existence whose life changes radically after a medical examination. With Dawn of the Dead (2004), a remake with the same title as the horror classic and Zack Snyder ‘s film debut , Polley changed her usual dramatic and personal register. She did not allow herself to rest and a year later she did one of her best acting jobs. The role of her protagonist in the intimate and excellent The Secret Life of Wordsit received very good reviews and had a great impact on his career. Coixet relied on the actress once again to embody one of her typical lonely female characters who carry a past that does not let them move forward. That same year, she participated in Knocking on Heaven’s Gate , a film by veteran and multi-award-winning Wim Wenders .
In 2006 Polley decided that acting was too small for him, so he decided to make the leap into directing. He shot, he also wrote the script, the drama Away from her . Her debut was very well received and she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2011 she directed Take This Waltz , which did not have the same success as its predecessor; a year later she got down to work, again as scriptwriter and director, of the documentary Stories We Tell, an autobiography of the actress herself.
One of his most popular roles came in 2009 with his work in the bizarre but original The Possible Lives of Mr. Nobody , a mix drama/fantasy film starring Jared Leto .