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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1962-10-13

Place of Birth

Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales, UK

Sara Sugarman

Biography

Sara Sugarman is a Welsh film actress, director and writer. She's known for directing films like Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Very Annie Mary, Vinyl and Save the Cinema. As an actress she's known for playing Toni in Those Glory Glory Days, a film about girls growing up in London who develop a passion for the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club during the 1960-61 season, and Abby National in Sid and Nancy, Alex Cox's biopic about Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.

Known for

Casualty

Casualty

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Grange Hill

Grange Hill

Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.

Minder

Minder

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

A Very Peculiar Practice

A Very Peculiar Practice

A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of colleagues.

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.

Sid and Nancy

Sid and Nancy

January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.

Streetwise

Streetwise

Drama about the lives of a team of bicycle couriers in London.

Dealers

Dealers

The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide by putting a slug through his head while seated at his place in the board room. Despite the high stakes, many of the firm's staff are eager to step into Tony's now-vacated shoes and get credit for saving the company. Daniel Pascoe, the leading trader at the firm, is convinced that he's first in line for the assignment, but the firm imports a new trader from America, Anna Schuman. Daniel is enraged and makes a point of trying to dig up as much dirt on Anna as he can, but things are going to take another turn.

Happy Families

Happy Families

Happy Families was a rural comedy drama written by Ben Elton which appeared on the BBC in 1985 and told the story of the dysfunctional Fuddle family. It starred Jennifer Saunders as Granny Fuddle, Dawn French as the Cook and Adrian Edmondson as her imbecilic grandson Guy. The plot centred around Guy's attempts to find his four sisters - also played by Saunders, for a family reunion.

Escape from Sobibor

Escape from Sobibor

The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.

A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey

A girl's undying passion towards her first love. A young man makes an enemy of society in order to accept her feelings. The sorrow and redemption of a woman who, despite abiding strictly to her principles, is derailed by her husband's change of heart. The story of three people whose lives are placed at the mercy of the monster known as love.

The Fainthearted Feminist

The Fainthearted Feminist

A sitcom about a mother who decides to embrace the principles of feminism.

He-Play She-Play

He-Play She-Play

Short plays by writers new to television drama.

A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey

Feature-length 1984 BBC adaptation of Shelagh Delaney's classic play.

Mr. Nice

Mr. Nice

Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.