Career Highlights: Still of the Night, Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge, The Fixer
First Major Screen Credit: By Design (1981)
Biography
Actress Sara Botsford had to make do early in her career with such Canadian horror films as Murder By Phone (1980) and Deadly Eyes (1982). A more prestigious assignment came her way in the A-budgeted mystery Still of the Night (1982), in which, as Gail Philips, Botsford was billed fifth, after Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy, and Joe Grifasi. She was later seen as Barbara in the Robert Redford-Debra Winger starrer Legal Eagles (1986), and as Lady Sarah Phillips in the benighted Whoopi Goldberg vehicle Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986). On television, Sara Botsford starred as predatory producer Ann Hildebrandt in E.N.G., a Lifetime Network soap opera, set in a network newsroom. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Sara Botsford (born April 8, 1951) is a Gemini Award-winning Canadian actress. 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. In 2002 Sara portrayed Kathleen Sinclair in the TV movie Trudeau about the life of the late Prime MinisterPierre Elliott Trudeau. In 2003 she appeared in Burn: The Robert Wraight Story.
She was previously married to Alan Scarfe with whom she had one child. Her son Jonathan is also an actor.