Paula Sage is a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 actress, Special Olympics

Special Olympics

Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to more than 3.1 million athletes in 175 countries....

 netball

Netball

Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...

 player, and advocate for people with Down's syndrome from Cumbernauld

Cumbernauld

Cumbernauld is a Scottish new town in North Lanarkshire. It was created in 1956 as a population overspill for Glasgow City. It is the eighth most populous settlement in Scotland and the largest in North Lanarkshire...

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Biography

She is an ambassador for Down's Syndrome Scotland

Down's Syndrome Scotland

Down's Syndrome Scotland works to improve the quality of life for everyone with Down's syndrome. Members include people with Down's syndrome, families and professionals. The charity provides information, support and advice. Down's Syndrome Scotland is a registered charity: Charity No...

 and Mencap

Mencap

The Royal Mencap Society is a charity based in the UK that works with people with a learning disability.-Profile:Mencap is the UK's leading learning disability charity working with people with a learning disability and their families and carers...

, and a patron of the Ann Craft Trust.

Her performance in the 2003 British film AfterLife

AfterLife

AfterLife is a 2003 film drama set in Scotland directed by Alison Peebles and original screen play by Andrea Gibb. An ambitious Scottish journalist forced to choose between his high-flying career or caring for his younger sister who has Down's Syndrome....

, brought her a BAFTA Scotland

BAFTA Scotland

BAFTA in Scotland is the Scottish branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Formed in 1997, the branch holds an annual awards ceremony, the British Academy Scotland Awards , to recognise achievement by performers and production staff in Scottish film, television and video games...

 award for best first time performance and Best Actress in the Bratislava International Film Festival, 2004. A Channel 4 review said:
Afterlife also won the Audience Award at the 2005 Edinburgh Film Festival. It also won Sage a role as Donna McCabe in BBC Scotland's River City

River City

River City is a Scottish television soap opera, first broadcast in Scotland on BBC Scotland on 24 September 2002. River City storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional district of Shieldinch in Glasgow...

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Appearances as herself

• The Heaven and Earth Show (aka Heaven and Earth with Gloria Hunniford) - Episode dated 12 September

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