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Sarah Patterson (born 1970) is an English film actress. She is best known for her lead role in the 1984 gothic-horror movie The Company of Wolves.




Early life and education


Patterson was raised in Camden Town by her father, David Llewelyn Hood Patterson, a London-based consultant physician, cardiologist and Professor of Medicine with the National Health Service (NHS) of welsh origin and his spouse. She attended South Hampstead High School, an independent school for girls in Swiss Cottage, London.




Career


Discovery and Child Notoriety

Patterson's acting debut at the age of 14 was accidental, not anticipated. Planning to provide moral support to a friend who was auditioning, she was noticed by director Neil Jordan and cast in the lead role as Rosaleen, a Little Red Riding Hood character spin-off, in 1984's gothic-horror film The Company of Wolves. "Sarah accompanied a friend to auditions,” Jordan recalls. “I spotted her waiting, auditioned her and gave her the role. When you write a part for a child, you either end up with a child actress, which is generally bad news, or with someone who has never acted before. That was the first time I gave a role to someone inexperienced, but I’ve done it subsequently in The Butcher Boy and other films like The Miracle. In The Crying Game, Jay Davidson’s character could not have been played by an actor because you would have recognised him and known he was a man. Sarah had this particular kind of beauty and was very anxious to do it. Her parents were enlightened enough to let her play in this quite disturbing film.”After the film's release, she returned to school sitting her O-levels, a secondary school-leaving qualification (and a prerequisite to sixth form), in June 1986. Shortly after, Patterson began filming another fairy tale-inspired movie playing the titular heroine (albeit, a typecast role) in Cannon Film's low-budget Snow White which was shot on location in Israel. Cannon Films had distributed successsfully Jordan's first feature-length movie in the United States and were seeking an actress as part of their Cannon Movie Tales series.
Retirement from the Industry
The musical fantasy was, however, a commercial failure. Released direct-to-video in 1987, it was a personal setback for the budding actress. Regardless, and despite securing further movie offers, none impressed her enough to accept to pursue acting as a full-time career and she decided to retire from the industry at the age of 17. She continued, nevertheless, to be represented by a local London talent agency in Camden until the mid-1990s but with no particular results.
Acting Reprisal
Patterson briefly reprised acting in two LGBTQ pictures since, both produced by Valiant Doll, her friend Lisa Gornick's independent film production company. This return seems to have been more out of opportunity than a marked commitment to the profession. Nonetheless, Do I Love You? witnessed her back on-screen after an absence of fifteen years, and, later, in Tick Tock Lullaby, also in a supporting role.




Personal Life


Patterson is married and lives in London.




Filmography


Film

Television




Notes






References






External links


Sarah Patterson at IMDb
Sarah Patterson at the TCM Movie Database
Sarah Patterson at AllMovie
Sarah Patterson at Rotten Tomatoes

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