Sarah-Jane Potts
Birthday: Born in 1976-08-30 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Sarah-Jane Potts (born 30 August 1976) is an English actress, who is best known for her roles as Saint (Sarah) in Sugar Rush, as Ellie an on/off girlfriend on Casualty, as Staff Nurse Eddie McKee in Holby City, and as Jo Lipsett in Waterloo Road. Sarah-Jane Potts is also the sister of actor Andrew-Lee Potts best known for his Connor Temple in Primeval. Early in her career she noted that "In the three years I have been acting I have spent most of the time looking dirty, scruffy, ill or tarty". Description above from the Wikipedia article Sarah-Jane Potts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Sugar Rush
Character: Saint
Sugar Rush is an Emmy Award–winning British television comedy drama series developed by Shine Limited and broadcast by Channel 4, based on the Julie Burchill novel of the same name. It follows the trials and tribulations of teenager Kim Daniels, who is dealing with all the usual adolescent issues, plus one - she thinks she might be gay. Her family has recently moved to Brighton from London, and she finds herself with a huge crush on her new best friend, Maria `Sugar' Sweet. Sugar has a bit of a...
Keen Eddie
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Keen Eddie is an American action, comedy-drama television series that aired in 2003 on the Fox Network. The series follows a brash NYPD detective who goes to London when one of his cases goes sour and remains to work with New Scotland Yard. The basic premise of the show bears a close resemblance to the popular 1980s British series Dempsey & Makepeace, the only notable difference being that the female partner has been replaced by a female housemate. Stylistically, the series derived inspiration f...
Dalziel & Pascoe
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British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour....
Off Centre
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Off Centre is an American sitcom that aired on The WB network from October 14, 2001 to October 31, 2002. Created by Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, and Danny Zuker, the series was heavily promoted as "from the guys who brought you American Pie"....
Zero Chill
Character: Jenny MacBentley
Talented teen figure skater Kayla is forced to leave everything behind when her family follows her twin brother, Mac, to a prestigious hockey academy....
The Broker's Man
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Drama series about an ex-policeman, who now uses his detective skills while working for insurance companies....
Felicity
Character: Molly
Felicity Porter, a sensitive and intelligent girl from the San Francisco Bay Area, decides to give up a slot at Stanford University's pre-med program to follow her long time crush to college in New York City. Things get even more complicated when she meets her dorm's resident advisor and they fall in love....
Gracepoint
Character: Gemma Fisher
When a young boy is found dead on an idyllic beach, a major police investigation gets underway in the small California seaside town where the tragedy occurred. Soon deemed a homicide, the case sparks a media frenzy, which throws the boy's family into further turmoil and upends the lives of all of the town's residents....
Bramwell
Character: Rose Tully
The story of Eleanor Bramwell , a pioneering female doctor in the late nineteenth century, and the struggles she has with her friends, her colleagues and society. Determined to take the medical profession out of the dark ages, her strongly held opinions often draw her into conflict with the chief surgeon, a man keener on tradition than he is on progress....
Out of the Blue
Character: Kirsty
Out of the Blue follows a team of detectives at Brazen Gate CID through grisly murder cases, clashes with an already-divided community and through the dramas of their personal lives....
Peak Practice
Character: Maddie Taylor
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based...
The Good Karma Hospital
Character: Vicky
The story of British-Asian junior doctor Ruby Walker who arrives at the run-down Good Karma Hospital to join a dedicated team of over-worked medics. Run by a gloriously eccentric Englishwoman, Lydia Fonseca, this under-funded but creatively resourceful cottage hospital is the beating heart of the local community. It’s much more than just a medical outpost - it’s a home....
The Teacher
Character: Mary
A psychological thriller tells the story of Jenna, a popular teacher with a chaotic private life. After a night out celebrating a promotion, Jenna is accused of sleeping with Kyle Hope, a 15-year-old pupil....
Casualty
Character: Ellie Bridges
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
Casualty
Character: Ellie
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
Casualty
Character: Ellie Merrick
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
Waterloo Road
Character: Jo Lipsett
Waterloo Road is a UK television drama series the first broadcast was in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Originally set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, England, the location of the show was moved to the former Greenock Academy in Greenock, Scotland in 2012. The series focuses on the lives of the school's teachers and students, and confronts social issues such as extramarital affairs, abortion, divorce, child abuse, and suicide. Waterloo Road is produced by Shed Pr...
American Dreams
Character: Kara
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Wonderland
Character: Melanie
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him....
Breaking Dawn
Character: Anna
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life on the outside tread the line between fantasy and reality as a stalker becomes known to her. She could be in danger; it could all be in her head....
Barely Legal
Character: Ashley
Teenager Deacon works at a video shop, and his buddies, Fred and Matt, sell the bootleg porno films he acquires. Deacon gets fired, but the pals have the bright idea of filming their own Internet porn flick in order to make money and become more popular at school. Hijinks ensue as they cast and create their movie, but porn industry player Vic Ramalot grows jealous of their burgeoning success and tries to put a stop to the project....
Kinky Boots
Character: Lauren
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes....
The Escort
Character: Liz
Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He meets friendly Tom, who offers to help him make ends meet by working as a male escort....
Five Seconds to Spare
Character: Twig
A young musician travels to London in pursuit of his dreams, but winds up the sole witness to a bizarre murder....
The Magician
Character: The Woman
Award winning Short film by Sarah-Jane Potts. A woman is saved by an unexpected encounter. Director/writer Sarah-Jane Potts says; "Tennessee Williams said, 'The world is violent and mercurial, it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love. "There is no love without connection and there is no connection without kindness." This film is my ode to kindness, and kindness is magic."...
Young Blades
Character: Radegonde / Anne
Young Blades follows D'Artagnan (Hugh Dancy), a young arrogant swordsman; Radegonde (Sarah-Jane Potts), a clever girl he meets in the woods; and a trio of Musketeers as they attempt to thwart a plot to send France and Spain into war....
Vengeance Is Mine
Character: Emma
Harry is a broken man, struggling to come to terms with the murder of his wife and daughter 5 years previously. When he discovers the whereabouts of the killers he awakens from his grief and, like an avenging angel, resolves to never stop until they are all dead....
The Silent Canary
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When troubled Joy forms an unlikely bond with rebellious Kat and discovers who her new friend's secret boyfriend is, her own past trauma starts to resurface. She's faced with a difficult choice of either saving her friendship or saving her friend....
Woundings
Character: Louse
A government program is trying to entice women to go to a remote island and become companions to war-scarred soldiers....
You Can Choose Your Friends
Character: Chloe
Comedy drama about a family reunion written by and starring Richard Herring. It's Ken and Margaret Snell's 45th wedding anniversary and their children and grandchildren along gather to celebrate. For Ken and Margaret's children, it's a day to revisit childhood arguments and to paper over present-day fractures in their relationships....
My Son the Fanatic
Character: Madeline Fingerhut
Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town....
Blood on Benefits
Character: Kia
A man named Gabriel wakes up in an unfamiliar white room and finds himself bleeding and chained to the wall. His gaze stops on the dark figure opposite him....
No Vacancies
Character: Ali
James has a good job, a good home, a good wife, but it isn't enough. Ali is single, single-minded, singularly focused on James. They meet in the same room, in the same hotel. Mariella watches them - unknown, unseen, unheard. She's the hotel cleaner who deals with the debris, the aftermath of their passion. She dreams of a similar life. This has been the pattern for some time, but Ali wants more. James can't give it. He wants to keep it as it is. It starts to play with Ali's head. She schemes and...
Signs of Life
Character: Anne
Anne attempts to shift her outlook by taking herself on holiday. But on arrival she is met with danger. A chance encounter with another traveller offers an unexpected solution, which could heal or crumble their lives completely....
The Canterville Ghost
Character: Virginia Otis
'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, and the original short story deserves the popularity. It is a witty spoof about a ghost and the 'haunted' mansion where a rich American family start to live. In this story, the family are not annoyed by the presence of the ghost; no, it is the ghost who is annoyed by the family who just refuse to be terrified. After all, why should we be scared by an old man wearing rusty coat of mail, whose best ...
Prancer: A Christmas Tale
Character: Claire
Ten-year-old Gloria and her recently widowed grandfather Bud befriend a mysterious reindeer when the family gather for Christmas. Bud comes to believe that Prancer may actually be magical, but Gloria fears his theory will send him straight to a retirement home....
Straydogs
Character: Anna
Vildhundarna is a drama far away from the Swedish reality. It's about four young people on the outermost, with norms dispersed, the only survivors in a nameless city, in a nameless country. Vildhundarna could take place in the former Yugoslavia, or why not Warszawa in 1944 or Rwanda...?...
Meat
Character: Myra
Brilliant, brutal and shocking drama starring Jonny Lee Miller and John Simm, following an ex-convict who falls for a prostitute, but makes a dangerous enemy of her pimp....
Reunited
Character: Fran
Six former friends reunite eight years after their houseshare ended in acrimony and recrimination. But is newly-engaged Martin playing with fire by seeing old flame Hannah?...
The Locksmith
Character: Alice Pierce
When his estranged wife is brutally attacked by a burglar, a law-abiding locksmith unconvinced that the junkie charged for the crime is the real attacker starts his own investigation....
The Chameleon
Character: Sara
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Stock
Character: Officer
‘Stock’ is a genre-bending short film set in the Manchester Warehouse district. The story follows a Frenchman, newly living in the UK, who becomes caught up in an unwanted conflict with the authorities. An absurd, Post-Brexit fairy tale that plays with language, miscommunication, and European anxiety....
The Lockdown Hauntings
Character: Nicola's Mum
With the streets now empty, it isn’t just nature that is taking advantage of this unprecedented global disaster. Spirits are freer than ever before and the spirit of a notorious serial killer, AKA ‘The Locksmith’, is back from the dead and he has even more potential victims. Can self-isolating detective George Parker with the guidance of paranormal expert Jordan Myers, prevent more young women from becoming victims of The Lockdown Hauntings?...