Biography

An actor with 30 years experience in stage and screen, Sara's screen credits include playing Will McInnis' daughter in the multi-award winning mini-series My Brother Jack (Channel 10), as well as roles in AACTA winning The Tailings (SBS), Ground Up (ABC), Dog Park (ABC), Son of a Donkey (Netflix/Superwog), Five Bedrooms (Channel 10), Deadloch (Amazon Prime), Harrow (ABC), Rosehaven (ABC), The Gloaming (STAN), My Place Series 2 (ABC), The Kettering Incident (BBC/Foxtel), the Canadian/Australian feature film Arctic Blast, Noirhouse (ABC iview), and over 40 short films and TV commercials.

She has voiced multiple characters for several international animation series including; Dumbotz, Megabites (ABC), Pixel Pinkie (Channel 9), Buzz Bumble (Channel GO!) and Fanshaw and Crudnut - the telemovie.

Her 50 professional stage credits include the 2019 international premiere of The Mares by Kate Mulvany, touring to Shanghai with Terrapin's Explosion Therapy (winner "Most Outstanding Production" - 2008 International Children's Theatre Festival, Shanghai), and the premiere season of the AWGIE winning Beyond the Neck by Tom Holloway. 2022/3 saw her play the role of Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by the multi award winning Roger Hodgman.

Sara was a Clown Doctor for The Humour Foundation, performing in hospitals around Australia for six years.

In 2015 she won Best Supporting Actress and Best Dramedy Supporting Actress at the Rome WebAwards for Noirhouse (ABC iview) and was nominated for Best Actress at The inaugural 2015 Errols for her performance in The Berry Man. In 2020 she was awarded Most Outstanding Ensemble Performance for Kate Mulvany's The Mares in the Tasmanian Theatre Awards. In 2023 Sara was nominated for Best Performance Professional Theatre for her portrayal of Livia in Mudlark Theatre's premiere season of Stephanie Briarwood's Garden on the Moon.

Training includes improvisation, clowning, screen acting and more, under; Ivana Chubbuck (L.A.), Aleksi Vellis, Di Drew, Improbable Theatre (U.K), Phillipe Gaulier (France), Justus Neumann (Austria), Tom Greder and Clare Bartholomew, Laura Sheedy; Rowena Balos (L.A.).

Sara ran the award winning Cooper Screen Academy from 2010 to 2021 and her students are now appearing in lead and support roles in streaming platforms including STAN, BINGE, Amazon Prime, ABC and SBS.

Sara has worked as an onset coach for Amazon Prime's Deadloch and for the latest Blundstone global "Find your Fit" campaign. She is a graduate of The John Bolton Theatre School (1997, Melbourne) and has been a proud member of M.E.A.A. since 1999.
- IMDb mini biography by: Sara Ellis Holland