Born in Toronto in 1979, Sarah Polley was a child actor in Road to Avonlea and the film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and later played in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter and Exotica. As a director she made Away from Her (2006), from an Alice Munro story, the family documentary Stories We Tell (2012) and Women Talking (2022), from Miriam Toews's novel, which won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay. She received the Order of Canada in 2013.
Filmography
- Away from Her (2006)
- Take This Waltz (2011)
- Stories We Tell (2012)
- Women Talking (2022)
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