Sarah Douglas
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| Sarah Douglas | |
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 At the 2006 Dallas Comic Con. Photo by Corey Bond. |
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| Born | December 12, 1952  Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Spouse(s) | Richard LeParmentier (1981 - 1984) |
Sarah Douglas (born December 12, 1952) is an English actress. She has made a career of playing strong villainesses in fantasy and science fiction movies.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Douglas was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, the second daughter of Beryl (née Smith), a physiotherapist who often worked upon RSC actors, and also of Edward Douglas, a career member of the Royal Air Force.[1][2] Having been educated locally, she then trained with the National Youth Theatre, then turning professional by working on several productions alongside well-known British actors such as Roy Dotrice and Jon Pertwee. Eventually, Sarah's career took her in front of the cameras.
[edit] Career
Sarah Douglas became known to UK television audiences in the 1970s, having appeared in prominent shows such as The Inheritors, before appearing in noteworthy film projects with titles such as The People That Time Forgot in a role where she was nominated for a Saturn Award, the highly controversial and rarely seen film The Brute and a small appearance in The Last Days of Man on Earth, alternatively known as The Final Programme.
In 1978, Sarah's career skyrocketed after she played "Ursa" in Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980) having beaten a staggering 600 actresses to the part. Sarah also appeared in Conan the Destroyer (1984) (as Queen Taramis). On television, Douglas played Pamela Lynch in the soap opera Falcon Crest for two seasons. Sarah was also another "Pamela" in V: The Final Battle and more recently in the Babylon 5 first season episode "Deathwalker" as Deathwalker/Jha'Dur, and Stargate SG-1's second season two-part episode "The Tok'ra" as Garshaw. Not one to take herself too seriously, and keen to rebel against the standard typecasting that inevitably happens in Hollywood, often styling herself as "I play evil, wicked Queens...with different hats on", Sarah has diversified her range by appearing in various horror, comedy and action films, ranging from Solarbabies, The Return of Swamp Thing, The Stepford Husbands, and Return of the Living Dead 3 through to Spitfire, where she played a tough CIA agent in pursuit of Lance Henriksen.
Trivia information that has rarely been commented on is as such - she was the first woman to fly on screen, for her role as Ursa. Previous movies attempted to show people flying, such as Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins, but Poppins was relying on her trusty umbrella in order to do this, but as stated by Richard Donner on the subject of Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980), nobody had "flown" or been capable of flight before this momentous pair of movies. Thus, as one of the survivors of Krypton, she was therefore the first woman to fly, taking into account that Margot Kidder as Lois Lane was not a flying character per se in Superman, on their Can You Read My Mind sequence.
Sarah also holds the rare distinction of working with three of James Cameron's iconic characters. She worked with The Terminator, (Arnold Schwarzenegger), in Conan The Destroyer, The T1000 from T2, (Robert Patrick) in thriller Asylum, and Aliens android Bishop, (Lance Henriksen) in action comedy Spitfire.
[edit] Recent appearances
In 2006, she guest-starred in the audio drama Sapphire and Steel: The Mystery of the Missing Hour. She appeared in the 2007 Sci-Fi Pictures original film Gryphon, playing the mother of Jonathan LaPaglia's character.
In 2008, Douglas's vocal talents have been lent to various audio projects, returning to work alongside David Warner, for a new BBC Audio CD entitled The Brightonomicon, and most recently participating in the new audio recordings for Stargate Atlantis.
She was married to American actor, in 1981 to her longtime boyfriend, Richard LeParmentier, best known for playing Motti in Star Wars, having met on the set of the original Rollerball film, but they divorced in 1984.
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