2023
United Kingdom
After graduating from the University of Manchester, Sarah began her career at the Royal National Theatre in London and, in 1992, was asked to join Casting Director Mary Selway, forming a company with her for 12 years until 2004. She has cast films and television for US Studios and UK & European broadcasters.
Directors she has worked for include Danny Boyle, Roger Michell, Stephen Hopkins, Hugo Blick and Jerry Zucker. In recent years she has worked on the feature film PHANTOM THREAD for Paul Thomas Anderson/Annapurna and MARY POPPINS RETURNS for Rob Marshall/Disney, receiving a CSA Artios Award as part of the team for Best Casting in a Studio Film in 2019.
She is a member of the Casting Directors Guild (CDG), and was Vice President of the European Chapter of the Casting Society of America (CSA) from 2018-2022. She is a Life Member of BAFTA and sat on the jury awarding the first BAFTA award for Casting in 2020.
Currently working on a television series for NBC/Peacock about five families in four continents from 1910-1933, the first season in a trilogy of novels that covers the 20th Century.