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Sarah Harris (actress)

British actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ7422371 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sarah Jayne-Harris, originally Sarah Harris, (born 9 March 1983) is a British actress.

In January 2010 she starred in Ryan J-W Smith's award-winning film For Rachel, a tribute to Rachel Corrie. This film was winner of Best Short 8th Cinewest Flex International Film Festival.

She also played the title role in independent short film Ellie Goes to the Movies 2005 which was screened at the 'Dorset Arts Festival' and the 'Tromafling' in Edinburgh.

She recently appeared in Henry McGeogh's film Pub Crawl 2009 with 555 Films and played in David Mamet's Reunion and Dark Pony 2009.

In 2010 she returned to the Sturdy Beggars Theatre to play Miss Julie in Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie.

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“Sarah Harris (actress)” enters the record as british actress. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sarah, Harris and actress can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 2010, 2005, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983-03-09. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sarah, Harris and actress.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7422371. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983, 2010, 2005 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sarah Harris (actress)” 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.