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Sarah Grey

Canadian actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ16238734
Source-derived summary

Sarah Grey (born May 19, 1996) is a Canadian actress. She may be best known for her portrayal of Alyssa, the female lead on the two season run (2019–2020) of the Netflix horror-drama series The Order.

Life and career

Grey was born in British Columbia, Canada.

Grey has appeared on shows such as Almost Human, and Bates Motel playing young Norma Bates. Her first film role came in 2013, when she landed the part of Jennifer Beals' daughter Julia in the film Cinemanovels, which was a 2013 Official Selection for the Toronto International Film Festival. Grey has appeared in several television films, the first of which was The Wrong Girl, in 2015. In August 2016, Grey was announced as portraying Courtney Whitmore/Stargirl in the second season of The CW television series Legends of Tomorrow. In April 2018, Grey was cast in the Netflix horror-drama series The Order, playing the female lead Alyssa Drake.

Editorial summary

“Sarah Grey” enters the record as canadian actress. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sarah, Grey and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2019, 2020, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-05-19. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sarah, Grey and Canadian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Sarah Grey” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sarah, Grey and Canadian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16238734. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2019, 2020 and 2013.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from Sarah Grey” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.