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Sarah Polley (born January 8, 1979 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actor and producer. She has starred in a number of films including
Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter.
She first became well-known at age fourteen as the star of the popular CBC television series Road to Avonlea. Long outspoken, she quit the show when it was picked up by Disney's family channel for fear of Americanization.
She turned more of her energies to left-wing politics, becoming a prominent member of the New Democratic Party, where maverick Ontario legislator Peter Kormos was said to be her political mentor. In 1995 when protesting against the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario government of Mike Harris, riot police knocked out some of her back teeth. Not wanting to be seen to be stealing the spotlight, by virtue of her profile, from other activists, she later scaled back on her political activism, but remains one of the most engaged young actors in North America.
After this incident she returned to acting and her role in The Sweet Hereafter (1997) first brought her considerable attention in the United States. She became a fan favourite at the Sundance Film Festival. She was offered and was set to take the role of Penny Lane in Almost Famous, but she dropped out of the project.
In 2003, she was part of newly-elected Toronto mayor David Miller's transition advisory team.
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