Sarah Paulson
Also Known As: שרה פולסון, Сара Полсон, 사라 폴슨, 세라 폴슨, サラ・ポールソン, Sarah Catharine Paulson, 莎拉·保罗森, سارا پلسون
Biography: Sarah Catharine Paulson (born December 17, 1974) is an American actress. She began her acting career in New York City stage productions before starring in the short-lived television series American Gothic (1995–1996) and Jack & Jill (1999–2001). She later appeared in comedy films such as What Women Want (2000) and Down with Love (2003), and drama films such as Path to War (2002) and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005). From 2006 to 2007, she starred as Harriet Hayes in the NBC comedy-drama series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, for which she received her first Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2008, she starred as Ellen Dolan in the superhero noir film The Spirit. Paulson has appeared on Broadway in the plays The Glass Menagerie in 2005 and Collected Stories in 2010. She also starred in a number of independent films and had a leading role in the ABC comedy series Cupid (2009). She later starred in the independent drama film Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) and received Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for her portrayal of Nicolle Wallace in the HBO film Game Change (2012). She was featured as Mary Epps in the 2013 historical drama film 12 Years a Slave, as Abby Gerhard in the 2015 romantic drama film Carol, and as Toni Bradlee in the 2017 political drama film The Post, all of which were nominated for multiple Academy Awards. Her other films include Serenity (2005), New Year's Eve (2011), Mud (2012), Blue Jay (2016), Ocean's 8 (2018), Bird Box (2018), Glass (2019), and Run (2020). In 2011, Paulson began starring in the FX anthology series American Horror Story, playing different characters in many of the show's 10 seasons. For her performances in the series, she received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won two Critics' Choice Television Awards. In 2016, she portrayed real-life prosecutor Marcia Clark in the first season of the anthology series American Crime Story, subtitled The People v. O. J. Simpson, for which she garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including the Primetime Emmy Award and the Golden Globe Award. In 2020, Paulson appeared in the FX limited series Mrs. America, and began starring as Nurse Mildred Ratched in the Netflix psychological thriller series Ratched. In 2021, she returned to American Crime Story to portray Linda Tripp in the third season of the show, subtitled Impeachment.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tampa, Florida, USA
Birthday: December 17, 1974
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Gender: Female
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Down with Love
Overview: In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-08
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What Women Want
Overview: Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-15
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The Spirit
Overview: A Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of Central City. The Octopus, who kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face, has other plans; he is going to wipe out the entire city.
Genres: Crime Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Bug
Overview: A small boy squashing an insect sets in motion a series of events, large and small, that include a lost restaurant reservation, a drunken fender-bender, disruption of basic cable television service, and more than one relationship falling apart. One person's disaster becomes another's boon, and vice versa--because a man loses his job, a young girl becomes the lead ballerina in the school play, which in turn causes the death of a pet pig. These characters weave around Los Angeles and each other as seemingly mundane events fall into place, putting them on a collision course with a common fate and one heroic act of competence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-28
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Adele One Night Only
Overview: A primetime special with performances from the superstar including Adele’s first new material in six years plus her chart-topping hits. The special will also feature an exclusive interview with Adele by Oprah Winfrey from her rose garden, in Adele’s first televised wide-ranging conversation.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-14
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A Christmas Wedding
Overview: Emily (Sarah Paulson) and Ben (Eric Mabius) find their plans to marry on Christmas day coming apart at the seams when Ben is left to plan the wedding details after Emily is forced to go on a business trip. Though Emily, a perfectionist, is determined to have a fairytale wedding, she realizes that love is all that really matters when a freak storm threatens to keep her from making it home in time for the big day.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-11
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The Notorious Bettie Page
Overview: Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into an erotic icon who continues to enthrall fans to this day.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-14
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Madame X Presents: Madame Xtra Q&A
Overview: A follow-up special to Madonna's recently released concert documentary film MADAME X. This special features questions from very special guests Ariana Grande, Amy Schumer, Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Jimmy Fallon, Kim Kardashian, Snoop Dog, and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-18
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Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
Overview: Irish immigrant Tommy Shaughnessy leaves 19th-century New York City for Kansas and becomes a small-town sheriff.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-20
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Serenity
Overview: When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything – or anyone – to get the girl back and the bloodthirsty creatures who roam the uncharted areas of space. But... the greatest danger of all may be on their ship.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-25
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Diggers
Overview: Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as their grandfathers before them. They must cope with and learn to face the changing times in both their personal lives and their neighborhood.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-09
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The Other Sister
Overview: A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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Martha Marcy May Marlene
Overview: After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-21
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Held Up
Overview: What should have been a romantic getaway turns into one hilarious debacle after another when Michael's woman dumps him in the desert where he gets carjacked by a teenager and he is taken hostage in a stickup at the local Sip and Zip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-08
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November Christmas
Overview: A young father asks for pumpkins at the local farm stand. "In August? No." the farmer replies. The farmer ruminates on the odd request and gets involved with strangers for the first time since his son's death long ago.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-21
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I Am Sybil
Overview: Explores the gripping true story behind the best-selling book and cultural-sensation case of Sybil, one of the first mainstream cases of dissociative identity disorder (or multiple personality disorder, as it was then known), which spurred questions in the public consciousness around identity and mental health.
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Original Language: en
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12 Years a Slave
Overview: In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-18
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Mud
Overview: Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-26
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Fairhaven
Overview: Long-time friends reconnect when one returns to their small Massachusetts town for a funeral.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-11
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The Long Way Home
Overview: A retired widower wanders away from his daughter's home, hooks up with a free-spirited young woman, and goes on a cross-country odyssey to look up an old flame he's recently heard from after 55 years.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-01
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Stars In Shorts
Overview: Seven short films, all of which feature name actors, including Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Colin Firth, Lily Tomlin, Keira Knightley, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and more.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-28
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Clybourne Park
Overview: Follows events in 1959 and then 50 years later in 2009. The subject of the play is Clybourne Park, a sleepy, “status quo” suburb of Chicago, which is sparked to life when a group of “well-meaning” neighbors convene a meeting to voice their concerns – dripping with politeness, apparent tolerance and searching innuendo. A blistering debate over property lines and community devolves into all-out war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Levitation
Overview: Sarah Paulson stars as a pregnant teenager who searches for her biological mother, with the help of a guardian angel.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-01
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Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration
Overview: A group of LGBTQ+ comedians get together to celebrate a brand of queer comedy. Legends, headliners, and emerging talent all perform at The Greek Theatre for an unforgettable queer stand-up event.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-09
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After-School Special
Overview: A man and a woman have an awkward encounter at an indoor playground.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-23
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Carol
Overview: In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-20
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The Runner
Overview: In the aftermath of the BP oil spill, an idealistic but imperfect New Orleans politician (Nicolas Cage) finds his plans of restoration unraveling as his own life becomes contaminated with corruption, scandal and deceit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-07
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Hold Your Breath
Overview: In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region's horrific dust storms, a woman is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.
Genres: Horror Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-12
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Talley's Folly
Overview: The interior worlds and sufferings of both Matt Friedman and Sally Talley are revealed as they find themselves drawn together in an intense romance.
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Original Language: en
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Reimagining The Met Gala
Overview: Director Ross, various cast and crew and members of the Met staff discuss how the film took over the famous museum for its version of the gala. The production received unprecedented cooperation from the historically cautious institution, no doubt due in part to the participation of Vogue and its legendary editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-11
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Ocean's Team 3.0
Overview: Director Gary Ross and participants from the previous extras discuss the challenge of casting a film where group chemistry is even more important than the individual performances.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-11
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Griffin & Phoenix
Overview: A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-12
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Ethel
Overview: Based on the untold true story of Ethel Stark and her Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra, who together demolished class and racial barriers and shattered the glass ceiling for women in orchestra music under an international spotlight.
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Original Language: en
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#twitterkills
Overview: A dark comedy about how a life can be ruined in 140 characters.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-22
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Game Change
Overview: During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-28
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Rebel in the Rye
Overview: The life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel The Catcher in the Rye.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-15
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Blue Jay
Overview: Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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Path to War
Overview: A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from inside the LBJ White House leading up to and during the Vietnam War.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-28
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Whose Dog Is It Anyway?
Overview: A charming and comic New York tale about Emma, single, successful, and not a dog person, who gets stuck with a dog because her younger married sister is pregnant with twins and moving into a dog-free apartment. Her sister insists the dog is a good luck charm - he will help you find a man. And this turns out to be true... for Emma's assistant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-31
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Ocean's Eight
Overview: Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York's annual Met Gala.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-07
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Swimmers
Overview: After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-22
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New Year's Eve
Overview: The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-08
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Friends at Last
Overview: Some time after her messy divorce, Fanny Connelyn realises her ex-husband is becoming her best friend.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-02
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The Post
Overview: A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-22
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Glass
Overview: In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.
Genres: Thriller Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-16
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Bird Box
Overview: Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
Genres: Horror Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-13
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The Goldfinch
Overview: A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he steals 'The Goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-12
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Abominable
Overview: A group of misfits encounter a young Yeti named Everest, and they set off to reunite the magical creature with his family on the mountain of his namesake.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-19
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Run
Overview: Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-20
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Coastal Elites
Overview: A socially distanced comedic satire that spotlights five characters breaking down and breaking through as they grapple with politics, culture, and the pandemic.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-12
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The Time Being
Overview: A struggling young artist accepts a series of bizarre commissions from an eccentric, dying millionaire who may be trying to either help further his career or destroy his life.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-11
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