- Born
- Birth nameSarah Anne Callies
- Height1.74 m
- Actor, director, and writer Sarah Wayne Callies most recently starred in the ABC series "The Company You Keep". On the comedy front, Sarah appeared as Anita Dyck in the breakout comedy series, "Letterkenny." Prior to that, Sarah starred in the NBC series "Council Of Dads." Sarah is best known for nuanced and complex leading roles in hit television series including the USA series "Colony," as Lori Grimes in the AMC mega-hit "The Walking Dead", and on FOX's "Prison Break" as Sara Tancredi. Sarah also starred in the critically acclaimed NatGeo limited series, "The Long Road Home," based on the Martha Raddatz book of the same name.
Sarah led the Sundance TV/CBC limited series, "Unspeakable," where she also kept into directing. Sarah also directed an episode of the final season of "Colony." Since then, Sarah has directed several episodes of "The Good Doctor," the CBS hit "Fire Country," "Family Law," and most recently Netflix's "Firefly Lane."
As a film actress, Sarah appeared in Giancarlo Esposito's "The Show," opposite Josh Duhamel and Famke Jannsen, 20th Century Fox's "The Other Side of the Door," Voltage Pictures' "Pay the Ghost," opposite Nicolas Cage, Warner Brothers' and Broken Road's geo-thriller, "Into the Storm," and "Black November" opposite Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger.
Expanding her passion for storytelling, Sarah is the creator, writer, director, and voice of the science fiction, post-apocalyptic scripted podcast "Aftershock," the second season of which released in April of last year from iHeart radio. Most recently, Sarah launched her podcast "Prison Breaking" which she co-hosts with Paul Adelstein - a rewatch podcast for FOX's, "Prison Break"." As a writer, Sarah has several screenplays in development with various television and motion picture entities.
Sarah is a dual-citizen of the United States and Canada.- IMDb mini biography by: Erwin More
- SpouseJosh Winterhalt(June 21, 2002 - present) (2 children)
- ChildrenOakes Wayne Winterhalt
- ParentsJerry ManheimValerie WayneDavid E. Callies
- She is close friends with her Prison Break (2005) co-star, Wentworth Miller.
- Her character Sara on Prison Break (2005) was written out of the show's third season because of her pregnancy. Sara was killed off, but was brought back for the fourth season. It was explained that her "death" was staged.
- She is the daughter of two University Professors, her father is a Law Professor and her mother is a English Professor at University of Hawaii.
- After the death of a family member she and her family moved to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1978.
- Has two children with her husband Josh Winterhalt - a daughter Keala Wayne Winterhalt (b. July 20, 2007) and a son Oakes Wayne Winterhalt (b. August 2013, adopted).
- [when asked who would be a better friend: Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson or Paris Hilton] You know what? I'm going to go with Jennifer Garner. She seems like an intelligent and classy woman.
- I love cooking. My signature dish? I make a pasta sauce from scratch that my husband loves. I add jalapeño peppers to give it a kick. You have to watch a man sweat when he eats a meal you make. It's important!
- [on growing up in Hawaii] It kept me out of trouble. On weekends, you'd wake up, go to the beach, go hiking, and by the time people in Iowa were drinking beer out of the back of a pickup truck, you were fast asleep.
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