Sarah Bolger is an Irish-born actress who became famous for her roles as Lady Mary Tudor in the historical TV series The Tudors and Princess Aurora in the fantasy series Once Upon a Time. The young 28-year-old actress has more than 40 films and TV series on her account.
Biography and family
Sarah Lee Bolger (from the English Sarah Lee Bolger, sometimes the pronunciation "Bolger") was born on February 28, 1991 in Dublin, the capital of Ireland. Sarah and her younger sister Emma were raised in a Christian home. The girls' father, Derek Bolger, worked as a butcher and owned his own butcher shop in one of the prestigious areas of the city, and their mother, Monica, devoted herself to raising her daughters and keeping the house. Both daughters of the Bolger family have worked in the film industry since childhood and starred together in the film In America. Emma, however, quit acting after three jobs. But the older sister continues to act to this day.
From early childhood, Sarah dreamed of becoming an actress. In her youth, she attended the Theater Youth School, which she graduated at the age of 17. It is also known that she graduated from Loreto High School Beaufort. Higher education was not included in her plans, because she devoted all her free time to filming in films and TV shows.
Career and awards
Sarah Bolger first hit the set in 1999 when she was just 8 years old. Her debut film was the biographical melodrama "Love Divided" about a Catholic family, where the young actress played one of the key roles. In the same year, she got a minor role in the melodrama "Secret Date", which tells the story of the love of an Italian artist and military journalist. After the second job, Sarah had a three-year hiatus.
In 2002, Sarah and her younger sister Emma played together in the drama film In America, which was nominated three times for an Oscar and twice for a Golden Globe. Sara herself has also been nominated for several prestigious awards: Independent Spirit, Sputnik, 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 lucrative offers for filming in other films and TV series. It is noteworthy that 5-year-old Emma was the first to audition for the film - it was she who convinced the director of the film "In America" to take on the role of the on-screen sister her own sister, Sarah, who was just waiting in the car during the casting. The director conducted a casting with both girls, and although he initially needed a 14-year-old actress, after some deliberation, he hired the talented 11-year-old Sarah. The film grossed more than $ 25,000,000 at the box office, and it can be assumed that the Bolger sisters earned some decent royalties.
In 2003, Bolger was cast on the Irish adaptation of The Clinic, where she played the 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 family adventure film The Chronicles of Spiderwick, where she met her first love, Freddie Highmore. Subsequently, she had serious, dramatic roles, mainly in thrillers and horror films - she starred in the thriller Iron Cross (2009), the teen horror film The Moth Diaries (2011), the horror film Obsessed (2013), thriller The Lazarus Effect (2013), the drama Kiss Me (2014), the thriller The Illusion of Comfort (2015), the biopic All My Americans (2015), the thriller Outlaw (2016), the crime thriller It's hard to find a good woman”(2019) and some others. But comedy works did not pass her by either: for example, in 2013 she played one of the main roles in the American comedy Cool Like Me.
2008 marked a turning point in the career of the young actress - she was cast in the second season of the popular historical series The Tudors, in which she began to play a supporting role as Mary Tudor. 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 was Once Upon a Time, starring Jennifer Morrison. Although Boger did not have the main 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 TV series from Marvel Studios - "Agent Carter".
Personal life
For about 3 years, the actress was in a relationship with the famous actor Freddie Highmore, a colleague on the set of The Spiderwick Chronicles, where they played brother and sister. But the couple broke up in 2009. In 2012, Bolger began dating Julian Morris, who also works in the film industry. At the present time, nothing is known for sure about their relationship - there are rumors that the young people broke up.
Sarah Lee Bolger is estimated to be worth $ 1 million. The greatest income to her was brought by the paintings "In America" and "The Lazarus Effect", as well as the series "Once Upon a Time" and "The Tudors". Sarah's best friends are Ana Mulvoy-Ten (English actress, star of the TV series "Abode of Anubius") and Annabelle Wallis (colleague on the TV series "The Tudors"). Bolger has two dogs of the Maltipu and Barbet breeds, which she loves to photograph for her Instagram page. In addition, she loves to travel, which is also clearly visible on her social media pages. One of her favorite films is the thriller The Fugitive.
