Sarah Polley

Sarah Ellen Polley OC born January 8 1979 is a Canadian filmmaker political activist and retired actress She first garnered attention as a child actress for her role as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona based on Beverly Clearys books This subsequently led to her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series Road to Avonlea 19901996 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 Polleys second film Take This Waltz 2011 premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival followed by her first documentary film Stories We Tell 2012 She also wrote the miniseries Alias Grace based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Sarah Polley licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia