Sarah Bolger is an Irish-born actress who has become famous for her roles as Lady Mary Tudor in the historical series The Tudors and Princess Aurora in the science fiction series Once Upon a Time. The young 28-year-old actress has already accounted for more than 40 films and series.
Biography and family
Sarah Lee Bolger (from the English. Sarah Lee Bolger, sometimes the pronunciation is "Bolger") was born on February 28, 1991 in Dublin, the capital of Ireland. Sarah and her younger sister Emma were raised in a Christian family. The girls' father, Derek Bolger, worked as a butcher and owned his own butcher's shop in one of the prestigious areas of the city, and her mother, Monica, devoted herself to raising her daughters and maintaining the house. Both daughters of the Bolger family since childhood worked in the film industry and starred together in the movie "In America." Emma, however, gave up a film career after three works. But the older sister continues to act so far.
From early childhood, Sarah dreamed of becoming an actress. In her youth, she attended the Theater Youth School, which she graduated at 17. She is also known to have graduated from Loreto High School Beaufort. Higher education was not part of her plans, because she devoted all her free time to shooting films and TV shows.
Career and Awards
Sarah Bolger first hit the set in 1999 when she was only 8 years old. Her debut film was the biographical melodrama "Love Shared" about the Catholic family, where the young actress played one of the key roles. In the same year, she got a secondary role in the melodrama "Secret Date", which tells the story of the love of an Italian artist and a military journalist. After the second work, Sarah was waiting for a three-year break.
In 2002, Sarah and her younger sister Emma played together in the dramatic film "In America, " three times nominated for an Oscar and twice for a Golden Globe. Sarah herself was also nominated for several prestigious awards: Independent Spirit, Sputnik, US Screen Actors Guild Award and the Chicago Film Critics Association. It was a real breakthrough for the little 11-year-old actress - she immediately began to receive advantageous offers about shooting in other films and series. It is noteworthy that the 5-year-old Emma was the first to try on the film - it was she who convinced the director of the film "In America" to take her own sister, Sarah, who was just waiting in the car during the casting, to play the role of the screen sister. The director conducted a casting with both girls, and although initially he needed a 14-year-old actress, after some deliberation he hired a talented 11-year-old Sarah. The box office of the film totals more than $ 25, 000, 000, and it can be assumed that the Bolger sisters received good fees.
In 2003, Bolger was invited to the Clinic series (Irish adaptation), where she played a cameo role of Jenny Queen. Later, she starred in the films “Exchange Love” (2005), “Stormbreaker” (2006). In 2008, she got one of the main roles in the adventure family film The Spiderwick Chronicles, where she met her first love, Freddy Highmore. Later, she had serious, dramatic roles, mainly in thrillers and horror films - she starred in the thriller Iron Cross (2009), the teenage horror film The Moth Diaries (2011), the horror film Obsessed (2013), the thriller "The Effect of Lazarus" (2013), the drama "Kiss Me" (2014), the thriller "The Illusion of Comfort" (2015), the biographical film "All My Americans" (2015), the thriller "Outlaw" (2016), the crime thriller " It's hard to find a good woman "(2019) and some others. But comedic work did not pass her by either: for example, in 2013, she played one of the main roles in the American comedy "Cool Like Me."
In 2008, there was a turning point in the career of the young actress - she passed the casting in the second season of the popular historical series "The Tudors", in which Mary Tudor began to play a secondary role. Her episodic appearances continued in the third season, and in the fourth her character became one of the key in the storyline of the series, she was one of the main actresses, along with Jonathan Rhys-Myers and Natalie Dormer. Another series that brought Sarah a lot of money and popularity is "Once Upon a Time" with Jennifer Morrison in the title role. Although Boger did not have a major role, she often appeared in this project - there were as many as 16 episodes with her participation in the image of Princess Aurora. She also appeared in several episodes of the famous series from the studio Marvel - "Agent Carter".
