Sarah Wynter | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15 February 1973 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Spouse(s) | Dan Peres (m. 2005; div. 2014) |
| Children | 3 |
Sarah Wynter (born 15 February 1973)[1] is an Australian actress, most widely known for her roles on American television – such as Kate Warner on the television drama 24, as Beth on Windfall, and as Keitha on Flight of the Conchords.[2]
Early life
Wynter was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, the daughter of Helen Cummings, a worker in the Newcastle registry of the Family Court of Australia and lately authoress, and Stuart Wynter, a physician.[1][3][4]
Her grandmother, Joy Cummings, was the Lord Mayor of Newcastle – Australia's first female Lord Mayor.[4] In 1984, her father killed his second wife and Sarah's half-sister before killing himself.[5]
Personal life
On 20 August 2005, Wynter married Details magazine editor-in-chief Dan Peres in Sydney.[6] The couple have three children.[7] The couple divorced in 2014.[8]
Career
Wynter's interest in acting led her to move to New York City when she was 17 to study drama.[1]
Television
Wynter earned her SAG card by landing a role on the Sex and the City pilot,[9] playing what she later summarized as the first woman to have sex on that show.[9]
A few years later, she was recognized by SAG again, as part of the second-season cast of 24 when it earned a SAG Award nomination as Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.[2] Wynter played Kate Warner and appeared in all 24 episodes, plus the third-season premiere and she provided her voice for 24: The Game. She had a recurring role in The Dead Zone and starred in the series Windfall in 2006.[2]
In 2009, Sarah appeared in "Unnatural Love", an episode of the second season of Flight of the Conchords as "Keitha", the Australian girlfriend of Jemaine.[2] In 2013 she played the role of Whitney Robshaw in "Protest Too Much"[10] the 17th episode of the 3rd season of the CBS police procedural drama Blue Bloods. She signed on to Damages in a recurring role.[11] She guest starred in the episode "Identity Crisis" in the first season of Person of Interest, and appeared in Californication.[2] She also appears on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 18 episode "Motherly Love".
Film
Wynter's first movie was Species II as the fiancée of the infected astronaut Patrick Ross. Wynter appeared in The 6th Day alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lost Souls with Winona Ryder as well as numerous independent movies such as Shooting Livien. Her Australian feature film debut Three Dollars, was released in 2005.[12] She was also cast as Daisy Adair in Dead Like Me: Life After Death, the straight-to-DVD movie version of Showtime TV series Dead Like Me, replacing Laura Harris who had played her sister on 24.[2]
Australian director Bruce Beresford cast Wynter as the lead in Bride of the Wind, his ambitious 2001 biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (and, after Mahler's death, of architect Walter Gropius and subsequently of writer Franz Werfel).[2]
References
- ^ a b c Wynter profile, movies2.nytimes.com; accessed 13 January 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g Sarah Wynter at IMDb
- ^ Sarah Wynter profile, filmreference.com; accessed 13 January 2016.
- ^ a b Horin, Adele (7 April 2011). "She once escaped a killer - under today's laws she would still be trapped". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
- ^ Norris, Megan (August 2003). "Aussie star's murder secret". Woman's Day. Australian Consolidated Press. 55 (21): 12. ISSN 1321-9839.
- ^ Wynter ties knot, from The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ "Double delivery". New York Post. 17 April 2011.
- ^ Rosman, Katherine (12 February 2020). "The Chaos at Condé Nast". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ^ a b Wynter, Sarah (2006), "Interview", The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, CBS, 19 June 2006
- ^ Blue Bloods ("Protest Too Much"), imdb.com; accessed 13 January 2016.
- ^ Joyce Eng. "Damages Recruits Sarah Wynter". TVGuide.com.
- ^ Summary of Three Dollars Archived 26 October 2004 at Archive.today, DendyFilms.com; accessed 13 January 2016.
External links
- Sarah Wynter at IMDb