Biography

Sarah Snook

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Born
December 1, 1987 · Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Height
5′ 5″ (1.65 m)

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Sarah Snook was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. Showing promise in performing arts at a young age, Sarah was awarded a scholarship to study drama at Scotch College, Adelaide. After high school, she was accepted in to the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) and graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting).

Having started out in theatre in Sydney, Sarah was the runner-up in the 2011 Australians in Film Heath Ledger Scholarship. She has since gone on to work extensively in film and television in Australia, receiving awards from the Australian Academy for Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) for Best Actress in a Film, Predestination (2014), and Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama, Sisters of War (2010), the Film Critic's Circle of Australia (FCCA) for Best Actress - Lead Role, Predestination (2014) and Not Suitable for Children (2012), and the Australian Film Critics Association (AFCA) for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, These Final Hours (2013).

Internationally, Sarah has acted in numerous films, most notably Steve Jobs (2015) and The Glass Castle (2017). She also appeared in the Netflix series Black Mirror (2011). On stage, Sarah made her West End debut in 2016 alongside Ralph Fiennes in The Old Vic's production of Henrik Ibsen's "The Master Builder".

In 2017 Sarah wrapped on two Australian productions, Winchester (2018) and Brothers' Nest (2018), and was in New York later in 2017 to shoot the first season of HBO series, Succession (2018).
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

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Trademark

Red hair
Blue eyes
Pale skin

Trivia

Graduated from NIDA, Sydney, in 2008.
Her maternal grandmother was a West End performer . She later emigrated to Christchurch, New Zealand, where Snook's mother was born. Her great-aunt was an English actress. In 1993, after seeing her sister Rebecca was "flying" on the stage in a production of Peter Pan and falling in love with the "magic of the theater", Snook decided to become an actress too.
Mother, with husband Dave Lawson, of one daughter (b. May 2023).
Her last name is pronounced "Snewk".
Took acting lessons, appeared in school plays, and briefly worked as a children's entertainer named "The Lavender Fairy".

Quotes

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.
The thing I really love about film is there's a really big sense of teamwork, and everyone has to do their job to the best of their ability to make the film work in the first place.
I went back to Australia to do a show called The Beautiful Lie (2015), which is a retelling of 'Anna Karenina' in a six-part mini-series - a modern, contemporary version.
I was the understudy to the understudy in a year-two production of 'Big Chief Red Feather.' The boy who had the lead broke his arm, and then the understudy got chicken pox. And I loved it. I got to wear the most feathers in my headdress.
I love playing characters with different accents. It's a lot of fun.