Sarah Rush is an American actress, best known in television for her work in the original Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction franchise created by Glen A. Larson. The franchise began with the Battlestar Galactica TV series in 1978, and was followed by a brief sequel TV series in 1980, a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books, a board game, and video games...

. She narrated and starred in the 2005 documentary The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania produced by Patricia Heaton and directed by David Hunt, which won the 2006 Heartland Film Festival Award. Rush was herself crowned Coal Queen in 1972.

She is a member of the Actor's Studio, an acting student of Uta Hagen and Milton Katselas, and is a BFA in Theatre summa cum laude graduate from the Pennsylvania State University. She is married to Fred Bova (1999–present) and has one daughter, Amanda Grace.

Theatre

• Our Town directed by Gower Champion and also starring Eddie Albert,
• As you like it
  As You Like It
  As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility...
  
   directed by Sir Tony Richardson and also starring Stockard Channing,
• The Glass Menagerie
  The Glass Menagerie
  The Glass Menagerie is a four-character memory play by Tennessee Williams. Williams worked on various drafts of the play prior to writing a version of it as a screenplay for MGM, to whom Williams was contracted...
  
   directed by Lee Shallot,
• Toyer at the Kennedy Center directed by Sir Tony Richardson and also starring Kathleen Turner, Brad Davis, and Kevin Spacey,
• She stoops to conquer
  She Stoops to Conquer
  She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, son of an Anglo-Irish vicar, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a great favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in Britain and the United States. It is one of the few plays from the 18th...
  
   in the title role,
• THE BELLE OF AMHERST, a one woman show on the life of Emily Dickinson
  Emily Dickinson
  Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life...
  
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• Alma in SUMMER AND SMOKE,
• Angel in WHEN YOU COMING BACK RED RYDER starring Christopher McDonald.

Television

• The Incredible Hulk (1978) - Young Woman (1 episode)
• Dr. Strange
  Dr. Strange (1978 film)
  Dr. Strange is a made-for-TV movie based on the Marvel Comics fictional character Dr. Strange, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. It was both directed and written by Philip DeGuere...
  
  (1978) - Nurse (1 episode)
• Sword of Justice (1978) - Cathy (1 episode)
• Battlestar Galactica
  Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)
  Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction television series, created by Glen A. Larson. It starred Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict and ran for one season in 1978–79. After cancellation, its story was continued in 1980 as Galactica 1980 with Adama, Lieutenant Boomer and...
  
  (1978–1979) - Flight Cpl. Rigel (11 episodes)
• Happy Days
  Happy Days
  Happy Days is an American television sitcom that originally aired from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984, on ABC. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presents an idealized vision of life in mid-1950s to mid-1960s America....
  
  (1979) - Fern (1 episode) (episode "Fonzie and the She-Devils")
• The Seekers (1979) - Amanda Kent
• Roughecks
  Roughnecks (TV series)
  Roughnecks was a BBC television series that ran over two series between 1994 and 1995 on BBC One. The show centred on the working and personal lives of those who worked on oil rigs in the North Sea....
  
  (1980) - Carol McBride
• Quincy M.E. (1978–1980) - Dr. Harriett Bowlin (3 episodes)
• Modesty Blaise
  Modesty Blaise (1982 film)
  This version of Modesty Blaise is an American TV pilot program, intended to be the start of a TV series. It was written by Stephen Zito, directed by Reza Badigi, with Barney Rosenzweig as Executive Producer...
  
  (1982) - Emma Woodhouse
• For Love of Angela (1982) - Angela Tanner
• Bret Maverick
  Bret Maverick
  Bret Maverick is an American Western series starring James Garner in the role that made him famous in the 1957 series Maverick: a professional poker player traveling alone year after year through the Old West from riverboat to saloon...
  
  (1982) - Princess Athena (1 episode)
• Tales from the Darkside
  Tales from the Darkside
  Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series produced by George A. Romero; it originally aired from 1983 to 1988. Similar to Amazing Stories, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Outer Limits, and Tales From The Crypt, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot...
  
  (1986) - Laura Burns (1 episode)
• Monty - Psychic (1 episode)
• Crossroads Cafe (1996) - Anna Brashov (2 episodes)
• Everybody Loves Raymond
  Everybody Loves Raymond
  Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Ray Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff...
  
  (1998) - Woman (1 episode)
• Chicken Soup for the Soul (2000) - Mrs. Calloway (1 episode)
• Friends
  Friends
  Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
  
  (2002) - Nurse #3 (1 episode)
• The Megan Mullally Show
  The Megan Mullally Show
  The Megan Mullally Show is an American talk show hosted by Megan Mullally that debuted in syndication on September 18, 2006, and was cancelled in January 2007 due to its low ratings. Early promotions for the program featured Mullally as herself and as her Will & Grace character, Karen Walker...
  
  (2006) - Herself (1 episode)

Filmography

• The Nude Bomb
  The Nude Bomb
  The Nude Bomb is a 1980 comedy film based on the television series Get Smart. It starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, and was directed by Clive Donner...
  
   (1980) - Pam Krovney
• Joni
  Joni (film)
  Joni is a 1979 film based on the book "Joni". The film reveals the true life story of Joni Eareckson Tada, a young girl who in the spring of her life becomes suddenly paralyzed. Through her physical, emotional and spiritual struggles, Joni learns to trust in God.The director is James F. Collier,...
  
   (1980) - Kathy Eareckson
• Years of the Beast (1981) - Cindy
• The Prodigal (1983) - Laura
• Talking to Strangers (1988) - Potter
• Fangs (2001) - Lois Bostwick
• Max Keeble's Big Move
  Max Keeble's Big Move
  Max Keeble's Big Move is a 2001 Disney live-action teen comedy film directed by Tim Hill, written by David L. Watts, James Greer, Jonathan Bernstein, and Mark Blackwell, and starring Alex D. Linz as the title character. The film is set in University Place, Washington. It was released in North...
  
   (2001) - Ms. Lane
• Destiny (2002) - Diane
• Catch Me If You Can
  Catch Me If You Can
  Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American biographical comedy-drama film based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a Louisiana parish prosecutor...
  
   (2002) - Secretary
• Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
• The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania
  The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania
  The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania is a 2005 documentary film directed by David Hunt and Jody Eldred about the fiftieth annual "Pennsylvania Bituminous Coal Queen" beauty pageant in Carmichaels, Pennsylvania. The film is produced by Hunt's wife Patricia Heaton, and prominently features...
  
  (2005) - Narrator

External links

• http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/sarahrush2/ (Yahoo! group).
• http://www.sarahrush.com (official website).
• http://www.sarahrush.com/SarahR.jpg (link to resume photo).