Sarah Lynn Dawson
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Credits
1983
Born
(42 years old)
Biography
Sarah is a English actress, screenwriter and filmmaker who trained as an actress at the New York's 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 LAPD's first female detective in the 1940's 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 Off-Broadway debut in the Manhattan Repertory Theater's production of 'Men' directed by Ken Wolfe, quickly followed by another Off-Broadway appearance in the showcase 'Conflict', at The Producers Club, before moving to Los Angeles. In LA she was accepted on the prestigious BAFTA/LA 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.
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1983-01-22
