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Sarah E. Polley (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian actress and film director. Polley first attained notice in her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series ''Road to Avonlea''. She has also starred in such films as ''Exotica'', ''The Sweet Hereafter'', ''Guinevere'', ''Go'', ''The Weight of Water'', ''My Life Without Me'', ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'', ''Dawn of the Dead'', ''Splice'', and ''Mr. Nobody''. Polley made her feature film directorial debut with ''Away from Her'', for which she won a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Polley's second film, ''Take This Waltz'', premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011. Her latest film, ''Stories We Tell'', is her first feature-length documentary. It had its world premiere at the 2012 Venice Film Festival, and its North American premiere followed at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Toronto Film Critics Association awarded it the $100,000 prize for best Canadian film of the year. ==Early life== Polley was born in Toronto, Ontario. She was the youngest of five children born to Diane Elizabeth (née MacMillan), an actress (''Street Legal'') and casting director who died of cancer the week of Polley's 11th birthday. Polley was born to Diane and her second husband, Michael Polley, a British-born actor who became an insurance agent after he and Diane started a family. Her mother Diane had Scottish ancestry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=:644404&id=I421 )〕 It was believed that Michael was the biological father of Polley as well as his and Diane's older children, Mark and Joanna, though all four of Polley's siblings (including Susy Buchan and John Buchan from Diane's first marriage) often teased Polley because she bore no physical resemblance to Michael. Polley discovered as an adult that her biological father was actually Harry Gulkin, with whom her mother had had an affair (as chronicled in Polley's film, ''Stories We Tell''). Gulkin, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, is a Quebec-born film producer who produced the 1975 Canadian film ''Lies My Father Told Me'', and had met Diane after attending a play she acted in in Montreal in 1978.〔http://www.thescreeningroom.ca/2012/08/sarah-polley-reveals-personal-secret-in-new-documentary.html〕 When Polley turned 18, she decided to follow up on suggestions from her mother's friends that her biological father might be Geoff Bowes—one of three cast mates from her mother's play in Montreal.〔 Meeting with Gulkin as just someone who could provide information about Diane in Montreal, he informed Polley of his affair with Diane.〔 Bowes and Michael Polley also confirmed, in ''Stories We Tell'', that they had sexual relations with Diane during the run of the Montreal play.〔 Gulkin's paternity was later confirmed by a DNA test.〔 Polley attended Subway Academy II, then Earl Haig Secondary School, but dropped out at age 15.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sarah Polley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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