Age: 47
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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 Cleary's books. This subsequently led to her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series Road to Avonlea (1990–1996). 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. Polley's 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 CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
David Axelrod, an intelligent and intensely passionate teenager from an affluent New York family, becomes consumed by his relationship with Jade Butterfield, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy, unconventional family whose bohemian home feels to him like a world he was destined to enter. What begins as an exhilarating first love gradually becomes an all-encompassing obsession as David grows increasingly dependent on Jade and fascinated by her entire family, unable to distinguish intimacy from possession. When Jade's parents separate the young couple and David's desperate attempt to remain part of their lives culminates in a devastating act of arson, a fire destroys the Butterfield home and leaves David institutionalized. Years later, released and struggling to construct an ordinary life beyond the tragedy, David remains haunted by Jade and the version of their romance he has preserved in his mind. As he confronts the difference between loving someone and needing them to complete your identity, David must finally accept that the love he considered eternal may belong to the past—and that moving forward means allowing Jade to exist beyond the story he created around her.
