
Sarah Deakins
Biography
Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin to British parents, multi award winning actor, writer, director, Sarah Deakins spent the first year of her life in Chicago, until her parents decided to move to Canada. She was heavily inspired by her artist stepmother growing up, deeply affected by her descent into Schizophrenia, and having lost this childhood idol to the streets, her work often illustrates the fragility and unexpected integrity of the disenfranchised and the downtrodden.
A graduate of the University of Victoria theatre program, Ms. Deakins has extensive stage and screen credits. An award winning short film writer/director, the first short she penned and starred in, "Late", went to Cannes as part of Telefilm Canada's "Not Short On Talent" Program, and more recently Deakins has collected over 25 awards on the festival circuit as the writer and director of "Greece", produced by Brightlight Pictures. She is the writer/director of a multi award winning 1/2 hour pilot, “Yellow", again with Brightlight Pictures, for a limited anthology series called IN PERSON, currently in development. Ms. Deakins is also developing a digital series inspired by her stepmother, about the people who fall through the cracks and those who try to help them, called HAPPENSTANCE.
Her feature film script VIOLET recently won the top prize in the 2021 Golden Script Competition, with an earlier draft placing in the top 40 of the 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowship competition. The most recent draft of VIOLET garnered an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Screencraft Feature Screenplay Competition. Ms. Deakins makes her home in three main cities, splitting the year between LA, Toronto, and Vancouver.
Acting (27 movies)

The Sandlot: Heading Home
2007

Hollow Man II
2006

Criminal Intent
2005

Triple Dog
2010

Deadly Visions
2004

Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts
2009

Engaged to Kill
2006

A Dangerous Man
2009

A Royal Seaside Romance
2022

Danger in the House
2022

Mom, Dad and Her
2008

The Mark
2012

Lease on Love
2022

Yellow
2018

Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century
1999

Alone in the Dark
2005

Criminal Intent
2005

Stolen Daughter
2015

The Arcadian
2011

Easy Land
2019

The Final Cut
2004

A Very Country Wedding
2019

The Unsaid
2001

Sons of Liberty
2008

Greece
2014

Blackwoods
2001

Christmas Rush
2002