• Name: Sarah Polley
  
• Height: 5' 2"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: Canadian
  
• Birth Date: January 8, 1979
  
• Birth Place: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  
• Profession: actress
  
• Education: Left school during her senior year of high school to devote herself to political activism.
  
• Father: Michael Polley (British; actor, born in 1933)
  
• Mother: Diane Polley (casting director; born in 1935; died of cancer on January 10, 1990)
  
• Brother: Mark Polley (actor)
  

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• “The films I learned to act in always involved something ambiguous. In the AtomEgoyen films the unspoken is what’s important – the words are mechanisms to talk around what you’re really talking about. And now I feel a struggle sometimes when a piece of dialogue is exactly what it is.
• “I like to play people who have secrets, who have isolated themselves in some way. I do think of loneliness as the thing that I’m constantly running away from – but I don’t think I’m the only person who feels that way.”
• "When people ask me what I do, acting is usually the furthest thing from my mind. It's a lack of confidence, in a way. I've hidden my insecurities for so long...Still, for the first time, I'm really enjoying acting. It seems not such a bogus thing to do with your life."

• Genie Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, MY LIFE WITHOUT ME (2004)
• Vancouver Film Critics Circle: Best Actress - Canadian Film, MY LIFE WITHOUT ME (2004)
• Genie Awards: Best Live Action Short Drama, I SHOUT LOVE (2003)
• Canadian Comedy Awards: Film - Performance Female, GO (2000)
• Gemini Awards: Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series, Straight Up (1998)
• National Board of Review: Best Ensemble Performance, THE SWEET HEREAFTER (1997)
• Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Supporting Actress, THE SWEET HEREAFTER (1997)
• Gemini Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, LANTERN HILL (1992)

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