Sarah Gadon

Sarah Gadon (born April 4, 1987) is a Canadian actress. She first gained recognition for her performances in David Cronenberg\'s films A Dangerous Method (2011) and Cosmopolis (2012). She has guest starred in a number of television series, including Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1999), In a Heartbeat (2000), Mutant X (2002), and Dark Oracle (2004). She has also worked as a voice actress on various productions.\n', ' In 2015, Gadon co-starred in Miramax\'s supernatural thriller The 9th Life of Louis Drax and portrayed a young Elizabeth II in the comedy A Royal Night Out. The following year, she starred as Sadie in the Hulu adaptation of Stephen King\'s miniseries 11.22.63. In 2017, Gadon played the lead role in the CBC miniseries Alias Grace, based on the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name.\n', ' Gadon was born in Toronto, Ontario, to a psychologist father and teacher mother. She has an older brother named James. Gadon has English and Italian ancestry. She spent much of her childhood and adolescence training and performing as a dancer, with time spent as a Junior Associate at The National Ballet School of Canada and as a student at the Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts. She graduated high school as an Ontario Scholar from Vaughan Road Academy in 2005. By 2014, she had completed her studies in the University of Toronto\'s Cinema Studies Institute at Innis College.\n', '