Sarah Deakins

Sarah Deakins
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Portrays:	Cheryl Roslin
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Nationality:	USA
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Sarah Deakins is an American-Canadian actress, writer, and director from the United States who portrayed Cheryl Roslin in the Re-imagined Series.

Career

Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin to British parents, Deakins spent the first year of her life in Chicago before her family relocated to Canada. A graduate of the University of Victoria theater program, she has extensive stage and screen credits spanning over two decades in the entertainment industry.

Deakins's television appearances include roles in numerous Canadian-filmed genre productions. In the Battlestar Galactica Re-imagined Series, she portrayed Cheryl Roslin, the younger sister of President Laura Roslin, appearing in the series finale Daybreak, Part I. Her other genre television work includes Stargate Atlantis (with Tyler McClendon), Stargate SG-1 (with Bruce Dawson), Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda (with Michael Hogan), First Wave (with Sebastian Spence and Roger Cross), Seven Days (with Malcolm Stewart), and the second incarnation of The Outer Limits (with Roger Cross, Jeremy Guilbaut, and Ty Olsson).

Film and Writing Career

Beyond acting, Deakins has established herself as an accomplished writer and director. She was heavily influenced by her artist stepmother's struggle with mental illness, which has informed her creative work focusing on disenfranchised and marginalized characters. In an interview, she noted her passion for creating more meaningful and complex roles for women, stating a desire to "write the stories that I was dying to play and that I wasn't getting the opportunity to play."

Her directorial debut, the short film Late, was selected for the Cannes Film Festival as part of Telefilm Canada's Not Short On Talent Program. The film earned her a nomination for Best Actress in a Short Film at the Leo Awards and won the Brian Linehan Actors Award.

Her subsequent short film Greece, produced by Brightlight Pictures, has collected over 25 awards on the international festival circuit. The film, which explores the fleeting nature of love, earned multiple accolades including the Award of Excellence for Short Film and Women Filmmakers at The Accolade Competition, and Best Shorts Competition Winner recognition.

Deakins created, wrote, and directed the half-hour pilot Yellow for an anthology series called In Person, which is currently in development with Brightlight Pictures. She described the series' mission as "telling the stories of women who might not otherwise be heard," focusing on "ordinary people having extraordinary moments." The pilot Yellow was inspired by a real-life experience her mother had.

Her feature film script Violet achieved significant recognition, placing in the top 40 of the 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowship competition and winning top prizes in both the Outstanding Screenplay Competition and the Golden Script Competition. When asked about her proudest career moment, Deakins identified her ability to provide opportunities for her collaborators, particularly women.

Personal Life

In March 2020, Deakins was selected for the Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) Career Advancement Module in Vancouver and subsequently received WIDC's Telefilm Talent to Watch Program nomination and mentorship award for her web series Happenstance. Her advice to aspiring filmmakers is to persevere through rejection: "If you get a 'no', just find another way. Don't listen to the 'no's... you have to just keep finding ways to tell your stories."

Deakins maintains residences in three cities, splitting her time between Los Angeles, Toronto, and Vancouver as she continues developing film and television projects.

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