Sarah Ellen Polley OC (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, political activist and actress. [1 ] She first garnered attention as a child actress for her role as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona, based on…
In “Stories We Tell,” the actress and director Sarah Polley sat down with relatives and friends to talk about her mother, who died when Ms. Polley was 11.
Polley received some of the best reviews of her career as a low-income mother dying of cancer in the heartrending "My Life Without Me" (2003) for director Isabel Coixet, with whom she reunited in 2005 to play a deaf woman who cares for a…