Sarah Lynn Dawson

Sarah is a English actress screenwriter and filmmaker who trained as an actress at the New Yorks Lee Strasberg Institute of Film and Television She voiced the role of the Mother in the Oscar Nominated Feature Film I Lost My Body 2019 Other films she has appeared in include Duality 2014 which she wrote and starred in and which was narrated by Deepak Chopra She also played the lead role of Alice Clark the LAPDs first female detective in the 1940s film noir Unsolved 2015 which she also produced She was born in the Lake District in England and she spent a large part of her childhood growing up in Qatar in the Middle East where she started acting at the age of seven when she was cast in a community theatre show She starred in theatre productions throughout her school years at boarding school playing lead roles in several Greek Tragedies After pursuing academia and graduating from the University of Leeds with a BA Hons Degree in Sociology Sarah realized her future career lay in the performing arts and after acting in several independent films she was cast in a play Reality TV directed by Jim Tommaney At this time she started writing and completed her first feature script She then moved to New York and studied acting at The Lee Strasberg Institute of Film and Television in New York on their two year conservatory program She made her OffBroadway debut in the Manhattan Repertory Theaters production of Men directed by Ken Wolfe quickly followed by another OffBroadway appearance in the showcase Conflict at The Producers Club before moving to Los Angeles In LA she was accepted on the prestigious BAFTALA Newcomers program and also became an Observer at The Actors Studio where she learned from Martin Landau and the teachers there She continues to act and write