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Canadian actress (born 1951)
Sara Botsford
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Born
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1951-08-04
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August 4, 1951
(age 72)
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Nationality
| Canadian
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Occupation
| Actress
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Years active
| 1977?present
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Spouse
| Alan Scarfe
(divorced)
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Children
| 3, including
Jonathan Scarfe
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Sara Botsford
(born August 4, 1951) is a Canadian television and film actress. She starred in the CTV drama series
E.N.G.
(1989?1994) for which received
Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role
.
Career
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She is probably best known for her role of Ann Hildebrand in the television series
E.N.G.
for which she won a
Gemini Award
for
Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role
.
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Before this role, her most remembered role is the wickedly evil character of Lillith McKechnie, AKA Isabella, on the daytime drama
As the World Turns
from 1988 to 1990.
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In
Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story
(1996), she portrayed Marlene Moore's (Brooke Johnson) lawyer. In 2002, she portrayed Kathleen Sinclair in the TV movie
Trudeau
about the life of the late
Prime Minister
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
. In 2003 she appeared in
Burn: The Robert Wraight Story
.
Her film roles have included appearances in
Crossbar
(1979),
By Design
,
Murder by Phone
,
Deadly Eyes
, the
Hitchcockian
thriller
Still of the Night
(all 1982),
Legal Eagles
(1986),
Jumpin' Jack Flash
(1986), and
The Gunrunner
(1989), opposite
Kevin Costner
. More recently she played a hotel owner in the
American Old West
in
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
(2004), and Kathy Williams in the remake of
The Fog
(2005). She played Marilla Cuthbert in the 2016
Anne of Green Gables
TV movie, opposite
Martin Sheen
,
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and its two sequels.
Personal life
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Botsford and
Alan Scarfe
had one child. Her son
Jonathan
is also an actor. Her only marriage was to James Hurdle with whom she had two sons, Gideon and Quinn. She currently lives with Christopher "CB" Brown, with whom she has a theatre company, 49th Parallel Theatre. Their mandate is to produce Canadian plays and adaptations for an American audience. They are based in Los Angeles. They also are the creators of the award-winning web series
Those Damn Canadians
, starring Christopher Shyer and Lynda Boyd.
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Filmography
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Film
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Television
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