Sarah Douglas is a British actress. A native of the English city of Stratford-upon-Avon. British creative luggage includes 78 cinematic works. Gained worldwide fame for her role in the commercially successful Superman project. She showed her acting skills in such cinematic bestsellers of the serial format as “Stargate: 3B-1”, “Babylon 5”, “Batman of the Future”. Films with Sarah Douglas belong to the genres: action, adventure, melodrama. She began her career in cinema in 1969 by participating in the project “Saturday Night Theater on ITV”. She worked in the frame together with film actors: Carolina Seymour, Dorian Herwood, Clyde Kusatsu, David Warner, Roy Dotris and others. The successful year for the British was 1986, when she was noted in the film "Sledgehammer".
According to the zodiac sign - Sagittarius. The growth of the actress is 175 cm. At the time of publication of the article, the actress is 65 years old. In 1981, she became the wife of actor Richard LeParmentiere, with whom she lived in marriage for several years. Photos of Sarah Douglas and information about her life and work are presented below.
Biography
Born December 12, 1952 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. The actress's mother worked in medicine, her father served in the British Air Force as a pilot. The school program was held at Alster Grammar School and Rose Bruford College. As a teenager, she became a member of the National Youth Theater, having passed a casting in which a dozen actors from several thousand applicants were selected. At that time, Elton John supported this theater, and his troupe consisted of today's world-class movie stars such as Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina.
First roles
In the 1972 series, she was featured as a consultant in the series Farm Emmerdale. A year later, she played a cameo role in the television project "Black and Blue." Then she replenished her then very small track record with the role of Katrina in the film “The Ultimate Program”. In the 1974 television film Dracula, she was honored to play the wife of the legendary vampire. In 1975, she took part in the creation of the series “Cosmos: 1999” about a fantastic journey through the universe of employees of the lunar base, which began after the natural satellite of the Earth after a nuclear explosion left it forever.
In the 1977 film Kaprona Park, Sarah Douglas portrayed the main character, Charlie. In this story of the fantasy genre, a group of people during their Antarctic voyage somehow incredibly gets into the prehistoric world, where they encounter adherents of an ancient cult.
Big roles
A great success for the actress was an invitation to the role of Ursa in the 1978 Superman project, one of the screenwriters of which was Mario Puzo. This movie, which earned $ 300,000 million at the box office, was viewed by 57 million viewers in the United States alone. Two years later, the continuation of this fantastic story “Superman-2” was published, where the British portrayed the same heroine.
In 1984, Sarah Douglas contributed to the tremendous success of the film "Conan the Destroyer", where she tried on the image of Queen Taramis. In this film, the legendary character the barbarian Conan, in whom Arnold Schwarzenegger breathed life, is called by the queen to guard the young princess while traveling to the castle, where a magic stone is stored that can give power to the one who will take possession of it.
Sarah Douglas admits that, despite the fact that in her long career there were many roles in large projects, she is nevertheless closer to appear and develop the image of her heroines in smaller films. And although in these cases you have to work under more difficult conditions, but, according to her, this experience only benefits her. She says that in the frame, she was most comfortable working with actor Gene Hackman, who seems to her a generous and wonderful person.