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.

Known For

Sara Santorelli

The Sandlot: Heading Home

Det. Lisa Martinez

Hollow Man II

Marge

Criminal Intent

Mrs. Spalding

Triple Dog

Cara Tapper

Deadly Visions

Veterinarian

Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts

Real Estate Agent

Engaged to Kill

Defense Lawyer

A Dangerous Man

Martha

A Royal Seaside Romance

Mary

Danger in the House

Lynn

Mom, Dad and Her

Jodie Scott

The Mark

Wanda

Lease on Love

Writer Woman

Yellow

She

Late

Gym Teacher

Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century

Linda

Alone in the Dark

Marg Anderson

Criminal Intent

Dr. Joy Collier

Stolen Daughter

Teacher

The Arcadian

Linda

Easy Land

Eliza Monroe

The Final Cut

Mayor

A Very Country Wedding

Diana Caffey

The Unsaid

Denise

Sons of Liberty

Greece

Sarah / Matt's Date

Blackwoods

Wanda

Slow Traffic Keep Right

Aurora's Mom

Christmas Rush

Bank Teller

Sleeping with Strangers