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Known as much for her intelligence as for her talent, Canadian actress Sarah Polley has been wowing television and film audiences since she was barely out of diapers. Born January 8, 1979, in the Toronto area, Polley got her first screen role at the age of six, in Disney's One Magic Christmas. From 1987 to 1988, Polley made her name in the title role of the Canadian television series Ramona. Her work on the show led to more screen work, first in the Matt Dillon flop The Big Town (1987) and then in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989). In 1990, Polley got a lead role on the acclaimed TV series The Road to Avonlea, a part that she played for five seasons. In 1994, she had a small but significant role in Atom Egoyan's Exotica and again collaborated with the director in 1997, for his critically lauded The Sweet Hereafter.
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Sarah Polley, the beautiful, socially conscious and intelligent actress from Canada, has been acting since she was four. The youngest of five children, she was born into an entertainment family. Her father, Michael, was an actor and her mother, Diane, worked as a casting agent. She has a highly successful career as a child actor, appearin in Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and on the television series "Road to Avonlea." The show was an enormous hit in Canada.
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S[A]rah Polley had the odds stacked against her if she wanted to grow up to be anything else other than an actor, or filmmaker. Her dad is an actor and her mom is a casting agent. So it should come as no surprise that she began her career at the tender age of just 4 in One Magic Christmas. She liked the process enough to keep pushing her parents into letting her do more. She has gone on to accomplish so much that in January of 2006 it was announced that Polley would receive ACTRA Toronto’s 2006 Award of Excellence. The announcement said, in part, "Sarah Polley is one of Canada’s treasures.
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Sarah Polley recently had a conversation with a "really successful" young actor about how much money you need to live comfortably. "This person said to me, 'Oh it's good you¹re in independent films but you ... have to do big budget films too because you have to pay your bills,' and I was like, 'What kind of bills do you have?'" The 24-year-old actress has a point. Aside from the forthcoming Dawn Of The Dead remake (which she's doing purely because she likes zombies) Polley has tended to avoid alternating Hollywood films with independents. "We got into an argument because he was claiming you needed $2 million to live but as an actor it doesn¹t matter if you only do independent films; you make a really good living from small films like this."
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Sarah Polley began acting at age four, but her performance in Atom Egoyan’s “The Sweet Hereafter” marked her breakthrough into adult roles. The film brought Polley her first Best Actress Genie nomination from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, and the Best Supporting Actress award from the Boston and Chicago Societies of Film Critics. Her other films include Zack Snyder’s remake of George A. Romero’s “Dawn of The Dead,” Doug Liman’s “Go,” Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Weight of Water,” David Cronenberg’s “Existenz,” Hal Hartley’s “No Such Thing,” Thom Fitzgerald’s “The Event,” and Isabel Coixet’s “My Life Without Me” (Genie Award, Best Actress) and “The Secret Life of Words,” Audrey Wells’ “Guinevere,” Wim Wenders’ “Don’t Come Knocking,” Michael Winterbottom’s “The Claim,” Atom Egoyan’s “Exotica,” and Terry Gilliam’s “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.” Her upcoming films include Jaco van Dormael’s “Mr. Nobody” and Vincenzo Natali’s “Splice” opposite Adrien Brody. Polley made her feature film directorial debut with “Away From Her,” which she ... wrote the screenplay based on Alice Munro’s short story “The Bear Came Over The Mountain.” “Away From Her” has been critically acclaimed around the globe and was an official gala selection at both the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals. The Directors Guild of Canada honored Polley and “Away From Her” with awards for Best Direction and Best Feature Film.
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Sarah Polley (pictured inside; Dawn of the Dead 2004) will join the previously announced Adrien Brody in Splice, a science fiction thriller being directed by Vincenzo Natali (Cube), according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film is being produced by Steven Hoban of Copperheart Entertainment and executive produced by Franck Chorot of Gaumont. Guillermo del Toro, Don Murphy and Susan Montford ... are executive producing via their Angry Bulls shingle. The story explores a dark vision of the world of genetic engineering in which two young scientists become superstars by splicing different animal DNA to create fantastical new creatures. They ignore the legal and ethical boundaries and introduce human DNA into their experiment. The screenplay was written by Natali, Antoinette Terry Bryant and Doug Taylor.
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