Sarah Catharine Paulson is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2017, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Paulson was born in Tampa, Florida, and moved to New York City after her parents’ divorce.
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Sarah Catharine Paulson is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2017, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Paulson was born in Tampa, Florida, and moved to New York City after her parents’ divorce. She has appeared in a number of independent films, and had a leading role on the ABC comedy series Cupid in 2009. In 2016, she portrayed real life prosecutor Marcia Clark in first season of the anthology series American Crime Story, subtitled The People v. O.J. Simpson. 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, New Year’s Eve, Mud, Blue Jay, Ocean’s 8, Bird Box, and Glass. She appeared in the Horton Foote play Talking Pictures at the Signature Theatre, and in an episode of Law & Order in 1994. She also starred in the Hallmark television film Friends at Last opposite Kathleen Turner, playing the adult version of Turner’s character’s daughter. In 2008, Paulson starred as Ellen Dolan in the superhero noir film The Spirit. She played the sister of Elisa Cronkite in the WB-drama series Jack & Jill. She subsequently played the lesbian sister of Joe Killer in the development of Sister Sister, a lesbian drama about a lesbian couple’s lesbian relationship.
In 2010, she played the ghost of a murdered woman in the short-lived television series American Gothic. In 2011, she began starring in the FX anthology seriesAmerican Horror Story, playing different characters in many of the show’s nine seasons. She later starred in the independent drama film Martha Marcy May Marlene, and received Primetime Emmys Award and Golden Globes Award nominations for her portrayal of Nicolle Wallace in the HBO film Game Change. In 2013, she was featured in the historical drama movie 12 Years A Slave, which was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2014, she starred in The Other Sister, opposite Diane Keaton, and The Other Juliet, playing a lesbian sister in the drama Sister Sister. In 2015, she had a lead role in the romantic drama Carol, which also won her an Emmy Award. She starred in a fall production of The Glass Menagerie on Broadway in 2005 and Collected Stories in 2010. In the fall of 2012, she also appeared in Off-Broadway in a production of Joe killer Joe Killer, a play about a woman who discovers she is pregnant after an anonymous sexual encounter with a serial killer. She had a starring role in The Big C, which won her another Emmy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie.
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