Sarah Paulson was born on December 17, 1974 in Tampa, Florida, to
Catharine Gordon (Dolcater) and Douglas Lyle Paulson II. She spent most
of her early years in New York and Maine, before settling in Manhattan
to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the High School for
Performing Arts. Although she made her Broadway debut in "The Sisters
Rosensweig" and performed in the off-Broadway "Talking Pictures", she
debuted on the small screen in late 1994 in a guest shot on NBC's
Law & Order (1990), then, in the
following spring, landed her first TV-movie role in CBS'
Liebe bis in den Tod (1995)
and finally became a TV series regular by fall 1995.
Best known for her amazing performance in CBS' supernatural drama
American Gothic: Prinz der Finsternis (1995) as the
benevolent spiritual guide to her young brother, she was also a regular
on the WB series
Jack und Jill (1999) as "Elisa
Cronkite", the former girlfriend of David "Jill" Jillefsky
(Ivan Sergei) as well as the main
character in the TV series
Leap of Faith (2002), "Faith
Wardwell", and as "Audrey" in the TV movie
Metropolis (2000). She was
also part of the cast of
Kansas - Weites Land (1996),
Der lange Weg zurück (1998)
(as "Leanne Bossert") and
Path to War - Entscheidung im Weißen Haus (2002) as
Luci Baines Johnson, as well as
making notable appearances in
Ein Hauch von Himmel (1994)
playing "Zoe" in
Manhunt (2001),
20 October 2001, and Immer wieder Fitz (1997)
playing "Nina" in
True Romance: Part 1 (1997),
18 September 1997.
Sarah has now played in movies with such stars as
Mel Gibson in the romantic comedy
Was Frauen wollen (2000) (as
"Annie", Gibson's secretary), Diane Keaton
in the romantic drama
Ganz normal verliebt (1999) (as
"Heather Tate", Keaton's lesbian eldest daughter),
Jamie Foxx in
Held Up - Achtung Geiselnahme! (1999) (as "Mary", a
developmentally disabled young woman with an unfaithful boyfriend) and
David Hyde Pierce in the romantic
comedy Down with Love - Zum Teufel mit der Liebe! (2003) (as
"Vicky Hiller", Pierce's crush). She also had two major roles in the
comedy Bug (2002) and the drama,
Levitation (1997), where she starred
as a pregnant teenager who searches for her biological mother, with the
help of a guardian angel.
