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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.
Shirley Jackson is known as the queen of literary horror, but her own life was as complex and darkly fascinating as her fiction. "The Haunting of Shirley Jackson" dives deep into the psyche of a woman whose own fears, desires, and eccentricities inspired a genre and left an indelible mark on American literature. Throughout four riveting episodes, this miniseries unveils the mysterious, often misunderstood, world of Shirley Jackson, played by an actress with the depth to bring her to life. Each episode centers around a significant period in Jackson’s life, weaving between her isolated New England mansion and the haunted worlds she created on paper. Through both the terrifying and mundane details of her domestic life, audiences experience her inner battles: a challenging marriage with literary critic Stanley Hyman, societal pressures to conform to the idealized 1950s suburban life, and her fraught mental health—all while she conjures ghostly, often grotesque stories that seem to mirror her own reality.
