Sarah Galbraith Buxton is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 film and television actress.

Personal life

Buxton was born in Brentwood, California

Brentwood, California

Brentwood is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. It is located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The population is 51,481 as of 2010....

. She lives in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 with her husband, actor Shane Brolly

Shane Brolly

Shane R Brolly is an Northern Irish actor, most known for his role as Kraven in Underworld.- Biography :Brolly was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and comes from a family of Irish actors, although he's done most of his film work in the US.He has a brother Clark, and a sister Kathy. He started...

. The couple married on November 27, 2006. On December 20, 2006, Sarah gave birth to the couple's first child, a boy named Finn Michael Brolly.

Career

She was a competitive gymnast in her youth, until being "discovered" at the grocery store when she was about 15. She is primarily known for her work on the television soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

 Sunset Beach

Sunset Beach (TV series)

Sunset Beach was an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on January 6, 1997, and last airing on December 31, 1999. The show followed the loves and lives of the people living in a fictional coastal city named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California...

, which aired on NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 from January 6, 1997 to December 31, 1999. Buxton was an original cast member and remained with the show for its entire run, playing the ever-plotting villain Annie Douglas Richards

Annie Douglas Richards

Annie Douglas is a fictional character from the US NBC soap opera Sunset Beach, played by Sarah Buxton. The character's creation was announced in 1996 prior to the serial going on air. Series creator Aaron Spelling helped create Annie's appearance and style. Annie has been characterised as a "rich...

. After the demise of Sunset Beach, Buxton appeared on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....

from 2000-2001 as the less than sane villainess Morgan DeWitt

Morgan DeWitt

Morgan DeWitt is a fictional character in the American soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful. The character, played by Sarah Buxton, appeared from 2000 to 2001 and made another brief appearance in 2005.-Character:...

, and in 2005, she returned to that role. In addition, she played a minor character, porn star Crystal Chablis, on the soap opera Days of our Lives

Days of our Lives

Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...

in 2004. Buxton has also appeared in several critically acclaimed movies such as The Climb and Little Children

Little Children (film)

Little Children is a 2006 American drama film directed by Todd Field. It is based on the novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta, who along with Field wrote the screenplay. It stars Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman, Phyllis Somerville...

. She has guest starred on prime time shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

, NYPD Blue

NYPD Blue

NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...

and McBride

McBride (TV series)

McBride is a series of two-hour movies for the Hallmark Channel that premiered on January 14, 2005, and stars John Larroquette as a lawyer. Along with the movie series Mystery Woman, Murder 101 and Jane Doe, it is broadcast in rotation under the umbrella title Hallmark Channel Mystery...

.

After returning to B&B in March 2005 and signing a year-long contract, Buxton's run ended abruptly after just one month. In 2005, Buxton was considered for the coveted role of Carly Corinthos

Carly Corinthos

Caroline Leigh "Carly" Corinthos Jacks is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. Originated by Sarah Brown on April 8, 1996, the role of Carly has been portrayed by Laura Wright since 2005...

 on General Hospital

General Hospital

General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....

with Jamie Luner

Jamie Luner

Jamie Michelle Luner is an American television actress, best known for her role as Lexi Sterling on Melrose Place and Rachel Burke on Profiler...

. Soap vet Laura Wright got the role after turing it down and Sarah was almost cast.

Partial filmography

• Simon & Simon
  Simon & Simon
  Simon & Simon is an American detective television series starring Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker.-History:The original 1978 pilot called Pirate's Key was set in Florida...
  
   (1 episode, 1983) (TV)
• Sam's Son
  Sam's Son
  Sam's Son is a film written and directed by Michael Landon and released theatrically in the fall of 1984...
  
  (1984)
• Lovelines
  Lovelines
  Lovelines is a 1989 album released by The Carpenters.In 1989, Richard Carpenter decided to release an album of unreleased Carpenters tracks along with selected solo tracks by his sister, Karen Carpenter ....
  
  (1984)
• The Sure Thing
  The Sure Thing
  The Sure Thing is a 1985 romantic comedy directed by Rob Reiner, written by Steven L. Bloom and Jonathan Roberts and starring John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Viveca Lindfors, and Nicollette Sheridan...
  
  (1985)
• Otherworld
  Otherworld (TV series)
  Otherworld is a short-lived American science fiction series that aired for only eight episodes from January 26 to March 16, 1985 on CBS. It was created by Roderick Taylor as a sort of Lost in Space on Earth...
  
  (1 episode, 1985) (TV)
• Mr. Belvedere
  Mr. Belvedere
  Mr. Belvedere is an American sitcom that originally aired on ABC from March 15, 1985, until July 8, 1990. The series was based on the Lynn Aloysius Belvedere character created by Gwen Davenport for her 1947 novel Belvedere, which was later adapted into the 1948 film Sitting Pretty...
  
  (1 episode, 1986) (TV)
• Easy Street
  Easy Street (TV series)
  Easy Street is a short-lived American sitcom that aired for 22 episodes on NBC during the 1986-87 television season.-Overview:The series starred Loni Anderson as L.K. McGuire, a onetime showgirl who manages to nab a young wealthy husband, only to have him die and leave her fending for herself...
  
  (1 episode, 1986) (TV)
• Less Than Zero
  Less Than Zero (film)
  Less Than Zero is a 1987 American drama film loosely based on Bret Easton Ellis' novel of the same name. The film stars Andrew McCarthy as Clay, a college freshman returning home for Christmas to spend time with his ex-girlfriend Blair and his friend Julian , who is also a drug addict...
  
  (1987)
• 21 Jump Street
  21 Jump Street
  21 Jump Street is an American police procedural crime drama television series that aired on the Fox Network from April 12, 1987, to April 27, 1991, with a total of 103 episodes. The series focused on a squad of youthful-looking undercover police officers investigating crimes in high schools,...
  
  (1 episode, 1987) (TV)
• Rags to Riches (4 episodes, 1987–1988) (TV)
• Nightmare Beach
  Nightmare Beach
  Nightmare Beach, released in the United States as Welcome to Spring Break, is an Italian-American horror released in 1988 film directed by Umberto Lenzi, using the pseudonym Harry Kirkpatrick, and starring Nicolas de Toth, Sarah Buxton, John Saxon, and Michael Parks.-Plot:Diablo, the leader of the...
  
  (1988)
• Primal Rage
  Primal Rage
  Primal Rage is a versus fighting game developed and published by Atari Games in 1994 as an arcade video game. Toys, comics, a novel and other merchandise tie-ins were also produced.-Storyline:...
  
  (1988)
• Who's the Boss?
  Who's the Boss?
  Who's the Boss? is an American sitcom created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, which aired on ABC from September 20, 1984 to April 25, 1992...
  
  (1 episode, 1988) (TV)
• Freddy's Nightmares
  Freddy's Nightmares
  Freddy's Nightmares is an American horror anthology series, which aired in syndication from October 1988 until March 1990. A spin-off from the Nightmare on Elm Street series, each story was introduced by Freddy Krueger...
  
  (1 episode, 1989) (TV)
• Exile
  Exile (1990 film)
  Exile was a 1990 telefilm shown on The Wonderful World of Disney on NBC premiering on January 14, 1990.The plot focused on a group of teenage castaways on an uninhabited tropical island after a plane crash....
  
  (1990) (TV movie)
• Checkered Flag (1990)
• Monsters
  Monsters (TV series)
  Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. As of 2011, Monsters airs on NBC Universal's horror/suspense-themed cable channel Chiller in sporadic weekday marathons.In a similar vein to Tales from the...
  
  (1 episode, 1990) (TV)
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
  The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
  The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990 to May 20, 1996. The show stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who is sent to move in with his aunt and uncle in their...
  
  (1 episode, 1990) (TV)
• China Beach
  China Beach
  China Beach is an American dramatic television series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War. The title refers to My Khe beach in the city of Da Nang, Vietnam, which was nicknamed "China Beach" by unknown foreigners, most likely Americans...
  
  (1 episode, 1990) (TV)
• Instant Karma
  Instant Karma (film)
  Instant Karma is a 1990 film. Craig Sheffer stars as Zane, a TV producer looking for romance.- Cast :* Craig Sheffer - Zane* Chelsea Noble - Penelope* David Cassidy - Reno* Glenn Hirsch - David* Orson Bean - Dr...
  
  (1990)
• Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
  Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
  Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead is a 1991 comedy film directed by Stephen Herek starring Christina Applegate.Applegate stars as a teenager whose mother leaves for a two-month summer vacation in Australia, putting all five siblings in the care of a strict tyrannical elderly babysitter...
  
  (1991)
• Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever
  Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever
  Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever is a 1991 musical comedy film and sequel to the 1979 film Rock 'n' Roll High School. The film stars Corey Feldman, Mary Woronov, and Sarah Buxton.-Plot:...
  
  (1991)
• Seeds of Tragedy (1991) (TV movie)
• Pink Lightning
  Pink Lightning
  Pink Lightning is the 99th cartoon produced in the Pink Panther series. A total of 124 6-minute cartoons were produced between 1964 and 1980.-Plot:...
  
  (1991) (TV movie)
• The Young Riders
  The Young Riders
  The Young Riders is an American Western television series created by Ed Spielman that presents a fictionalized account of a group of young Pony Express riders based at the Sweetwater Station in the Nebraska Territory during the years leading up to the American Civil War...
  
  (1 episode, 1992) (TV)
• Cityscrapes: Los Angeles
  Cityscrapes: Los Angeles
  Cityscrapes: Los Angeles is a 1994 film by director Michael Becker and co-written by him and Carlos Aragon and Robert Montalbano. In 10 intertwined stories, the film is a journey through lives of youths in a post modern Los Angeles.-Cast:...
  
  (1994)
• Silk Stalkings
  Silk Stalkings
  Silk Stalkings is a TV crime drama originally shown on CBS in 1991 as part of the network's late-night Crimetime After Primetime programming package, and rebroadcast on the USA Network. After CBS ended the Crimetime experiment in 1993, the series ran exclusively on USA until its finale in the...
  
  (1 episode, 1995) (TV)
• Platypus Man
  Platypus Man
  Platypus Man is an American sitcom that aired on UPN in 1995. Starring comedian Richard Jeni, the television series was based on an hour-long HBO special of Jeni's filmed in 1992. The series lasted for only one season, with a total of thirteen episodes....
  
  (1 episode, 1995) (TV)
• Diagnosis: Murder
  Diagnosis: Murder
  Diagnosis: Murder is a mystery/medical/crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son, a homicide detective played by his real-life son Barry Van Dyke. The series began as a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman...
  
  (1 episode, 1995) (TV)
• Renegade
  Renegade (TV series)
  Renegade is an American television series that ran for 110 episodes spanning 5 seasons between September 19, 1992 and April 4, 1997.The series stars Lorenzo Lamas as Reno Raines, a police officer who is framed for a murder he didn't commit. Raines goes on the run and joins forces with Native...
  
  (1 episode, 1995) (TV)
• Listen (1996)
• Walker, Texas Ranger
  Walker, Texas Ranger
  Walker, Texas Ranger is an American television action crime drama series created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis, and starring Chuck Norris as a member of the Texas Ranger Division. The show aired on CBS in the spring of 1993, with the first season consisting of three pilot episodes. Eight full...
  
  (1 episode, 1996) (TV)
• Baywatch
  Baywatch
  Baywatch is an American action drama series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, starring David Hasselhoff. The show ran in its original title and format from 1989 to 1999, sans the 1990-1991 season, of which it was not in production...
  
  (1 episode, 1997) (TV)
• Sunset Beach
  Sunset Beach (TV series)
  Sunset Beach was an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on January 6, 1997, and last airing on December 31, 1999. The show followed the loves and lives of the people living in a fictional coastal city named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California...
  
  (372 episodes, 1997–1999) (TV)
• The Climb (1998)
• Dirty Down Under... Up Here (1999)
• Rendez-View (1 episode, 2002) (TV)
• Drama Queen (2002)
• NYPD Blue
  NYPD Blue
  NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...
  
  (1 episode, 2003) (TV)
• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  (22 episodes, 2004) (TV)
• Sin's Kitchen (2004)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
  
  (2 episodes, 2004) (TV)
• McBride
  McBride (TV series)
  McBride is a series of two-hour movies for the Hallmark Channel that premiered on January 14, 2005, and stars John Larroquette as a lawyer. Along with the movie series Mystery Woman, Murder 101 and Jane Doe, it is broadcast in rotation under the umbrella title Hallmark Channel Mystery...
  
  (2005) (TV)
• Devil's Highway (2005)
• The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
  
  (194 episodes, 1987–2005) (TV)
• Little Children
  Little Children (film)
  Little Children is a 2006 American drama film directed by Todd Field. It is based on the novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta, who along with Field wrote the screenplay. It stars Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman, Phyllis Somerville...
  
  (2006)
• Japan
  Japan (film)
  Japan is a 2008 American independent film written and directed by Fabien Pruvot.-Plot:The film follows a contract killer who goes by the code name Japan. He meets a man named Alfred at a hotel, who was recently evicted from his home. The two get along and Japan befriends Alfred. Their friendship...
  
  (2008)
• Bedtime Stories
  Bedtime Stories (film)
  Bedtime Stories is a 2008 American family-fantasy-comedy film directed by Adam Shankman that stars Adam Sandler in his first appearance in a family-oriented film...
  
  (2008)
• Spread
  Spread (film)
  Spread is a 2009 film starring Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche and directed by David Mackenzie. The film was released under the name L.A. Gigolo in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, as Toy Boy in France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, Oh yeah in Argentina and as American Playboy in Spain and...
  
  (2009)
• CSI: Miami
  CSI: Miami
  CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....
  
  (1 episode, 2009) (TV)

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