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| Portrayed by | Kelly Harmon | |
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Sarah Fowler is a human female born on one of the Lunar Colonies.
Along with Michael and his only child, Fowler and her three children manage to escape the Eastern Alliance-dominated Lunar colony via the Lunar Shuttle Avion. Their destination is Paradeen, where her father, John Russel Fowler, and his two androids, Hector and Vector, built a house for them to reside in. Their plan is to get there, destroy the ship, and live out the rest of their lives without worrying about the Eastern Alliance. This plan might have worked without a hitch were they not encountered by the patrol of Apollo and Starbuck.
Sarah harbors negatively dismissive views on technology, due to the fact that she and her children were hindered by their inability to breathe in heavier atmospheres (thanks to Terran enhancements of those who wished to settle the Lunar colonies.) Due to this, she despises and feared all those who favor technology; though she doesn't seem to be able to back up her viewpoints due to an ignorant bias.
When they are intercepted by Apollo and Starbuck, she is the first to be revived from suspended animation by Michael, who knows that they are not where they are supposed to be. After Michael's glorified asthmatic episode, he and Sarah are placed in chambers set to their atmosphere pressure. With the help of Galactica's sympathetic crew, they are sent on to their destination, programmed automatically into the Avion's onboard computer.
After landing on Paradeen, and meandering about the surroundings, she discovers that her father died of natural causes. Later on, it is revealed to the Colonials (Cassiopeia, Starbuck and Apollo) that they were not related to one another at all. She proves to be over-protective of her children, doing her best to curtail all knowledge of Terra, for she didn't want her children knowing much about a planet they can never go back to.
She attempts a few advances on Apollo, expressing a wish to be his lover. She expresses to him her fear of Michael, due to his views about technology. Later on she admits that she was the one who damaged all the equipment onboard the two Vipers, though they can be salvaged to assemble enough working controls for one Viper. By doing thus, she presumes that she would maroon Apollo on Paradeen, so that he could spend the rest his life with her and her children. Michael chastises her while his mind is on the disappearance of Starbuck, who is lost in the catacombs of Paradeen City.
During the night, she and baby Walker are captured by the Leiter's Eastern Alliance's officers. She manages to reveal little, and is responsible for delaying the Eastern Alliance and effecting the escape of Baby Walker.
After the situation is resolved and the Easter Alliance enforcers are captured, she decides that she likes Michael and wants to stay with him (TOS: "Greetings From Earth").
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- The last name of Sarah is assumed, given by the evidence provided by John Fowler's tombstone.
- Actress Kelly Harmon is the sister of actor Mark Harmon and sister-in-law to Mork and Mindy star Pam Dawber.
- Ms. Harmon might be remembered more to some for her series of 1990's-era commercials for the "Tic Tac" candies.
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Sarah Rush (born September 20, 1955) portrayed Flight Corporal Rigel in the original Battlestar Galactica.
Biography
Rush is a 1973 graduate of Wayneburg Central High School in Wayneburg, Pennsylvania, USA, and acted in school plays. She has, in her words, wanted to be an actor her whole life. An influence on that was the fact that her father's cousin was the legendary James Dean (1931-1955). Since then, she has acted in commercials, film, theater, and television.
Rush has a BFA in theater from Penn State University, and is a member of the Actor's Studio. Upon graudation from Penn State, she moved to New York on a scholarship from Samuel Gallu for "Most Promising Actor". In two weeks time, she signed a contract with Universal as a contract player for Universal Studios for 3 1/2 years.
She understudied for Kathleen Turner in the Broadway play "Toyer," which played at Kennedy Center.
While working as a contract player for Universal, she recalls her audition for Battlestar Galactica:
- When I think about the audition, I have to laugh! I was a contract player at Universal, and I think that certainly helped me to get the role. However, I remember walking in to a huge office in the Black Tower at Universal, and along with Glen Larson, there were about seven other people. It was pretty amazing to see all these folks in one room, looking at me! Anyway, I had one line, something like "100 microns and closing, 99 microns and closing. . . Red alert!" I said these lines into my fist, as if it were a microphone. I have always been very serious about acting, and so I took it very seriously.
- "When I finished, I looked up at everyone, and after a moment of total silence, we all started laughing!!!!! Glen Larson was so kind to me, and I am so grateful that he gave me the job."
Sarah followed her role on Galactica with her biggest part for Universal as Amanda Kent in The Seekers, the third and last of John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles books that were adapted for television in 1978-79 and featured a number of Galactica cast members in previous segments including Lorne Greene, John Colicos and Herb Jefferson Jr.
After her Universal contract expired, she left for New York where she studied acting with Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof.
In the late 1980s to early 1990s, she was married and divorced, lost her mother and helped family members who were ill, which placed a pause in her acting career.
In 1999, she re-married to guitarist Fred Bova, after friends have attempted to get them together for two years.
Trivia
- Sarah Rush designed the braided hair style, which she initially believed to be apt for the role of Rigel. However, an unknown someone didn't like it, and it was removed. However, during filming, the hairdresser took out the braids and the cameras started filming before Rush had a chance to brush her hair.
- Rush fondly recalls a compliment she received from a fan of the show:
- "One of the best compliments I received was from a fellow who had become a member of the club. He said that he remembered an episode I was in from his childhood days, and he remembered me very specifically, including my lines. He wanted to watch it again to see if he remembered it correctly, and he had. He said that he had remembered me because I had been truthful and honest and brought real humanity to the moment in the scene.
- "I was so touched by that, because even though Battlestar Galactica's time frame is set in extraordinary circumstances with amazing technological effects, people are human and real and experience true feelings. That's actually one of the reasons I would love to do a science fiction show again, to bring that humanity in the midst of the vastness of Space."—from BattlestarPegasus.com
- SarahRush.com became Rush's official site in June 2001. She communicates to her fans via the guestbook and the message boards of the website.
