Sara Gilbert
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| Sara Gilbert | |
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| Born | Sara Rebecca Abeles January 29, 1975 Santa Monica, California, USA |
| Years active | 1984 — present |
Sara Gilbert (born Sara Rebecca Abeles on January 29, 1975 in Santa Monica, California) is an Emmy-nominated American actress best known for her longtime role as Darlene Conner-Healy from 1988-1997 in the U.S. sitcom Roseanne.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Gilbert was born in Santa Monica, to a Jewish family. Her parents are Barbara Crane (née Barbara Cowan) and Harold Abeles.
Her two older adoptive half siblings were stars of Little House on the Prairie: Melissa Gilbert and Jonathan Gilbert. Melissa and Jonathan were adopted by Barbara and her first husband Paul Gilbert (born Paul MacMahon); Paul died in 1975.
Abeles changed her surname to Gilbert to become an actress in 1984.
[edit] Television career
Gilbert decided at age six that she wanted to be an actress after her older sister, Melissa Gilbert, got a plaque on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[1] Following appearances in television movies and a commercial for Kool Aid, at the age of thirteen she landed the role of Darlene Conner, the sarcastic middle child, in Roseanne. Sara was a cast member during the show's nine-year run from 1988 to 1997, for which she also wrote a fourth-season episode called "Don't Make Me Over". Sara's contribution was considered so important to Roseanne that the show's producers juggled storylines and taping schedules to allow her to study at Yale University while remaining part of the cast, shooting remote segments of Darlene at a soundstage in New York.[2] At Yale, she majored in art with an emphasis on photography; she graduated with honors in 1997.
Gilbert has made guest appearances on shows such as The Simpsons, 24, and Will & Grace. Since 2004, she has had a recurring role as medical student Jane Figler on the long-running hospital drama ER.
She returned to prime time television in the fall of 2005 in the sitcom Twins on The WB network. The sitcom was canceled after one season, when the WB and UPN networks merged to become The CW and had to drop a number of shows. She also had a recurring role on the short-lived CBS sitcom The Class as Fern Velch, wife of Ritchie Velch. She has appeared in at least three episodes of The Big Bang Theory on CBS as a scientist friend (with benefits) to the character played by Johnny Galecki, who also portrayed her longtime boyfriend and husband David Healy on Roseanne.
[edit] Film career
Gilbert has appeared in two films alongside Drew Barrymore, in Poison Ivy in 1992 and Riding In Cars With Boys in 2001. She has had several other minor roles following Roseanne, including short film $30 (aka 30 Bucks) as part of the Boys Life 3 feature. She directed her own short film Persona Non Grata in 1998.
[edit] Personal life
In her teens, Gilbert became a vegetarian. Today, she supports numerous organizations such as PETA, Meals on Wheels, Freedom of Speech, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and AIDS Project Los Angeles.
She has been in an openly lesbian[3] relationship with Allison Adler since 2002. They have a son, Levi Hank, born in October 2004,[4] and a daughter, Sawyer, born on August 2, 2007. Allison carried the couple's son and Gilbert carried their daughter.[5]
[edit] Awards
In 1993, Sara Gilbert was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in Roseanne as well as the Independent Spirit Award award for Best Supporting Female for her role in Poison Ivy. She was again nominated for an Emmy in 1994 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Roseanne.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Starring roles
- Calamity Jane (1984) as Jean (Age 7)
- Roseanne (TV series, 1988 - 1997) as Darlene Conner
- Runaway Ralph (1988) as Stephie
- Sudie and Simpson (1990) as Sudie Harrigan
- Poison Ivy (1992) as Sylvie Cooper
- 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do To Save The Earth (1992)
- Dead Beat (1994) as Martha
- Broken Record (1997)
- Desert Blue (1998) as Sandy
- Persona Non Grata (1998) as a narrator (also director)
- Light It Up (1999) as Lynn Sabatini
- The Big Tease (1999) as Gretle Dickens
- $30 (1999) as Emily/Michelle
- Jack & The Beanstalk (2000)
- Welcome To New York (TV series, 2000) as Amy Manning
- Riding In Cars With Boys (2001) as Tina Barr
- Twins (TV series, 2005) as Mitchee Arnold
- Girls on the Bus (TV series, 2006, unaired) as Helen
[edit] Guest appearances and cameos
- The Simpsons, as Laura Powers in the episode "New Kid on the Block", (1992)
- Saturday Night Live, hosted one episode in (1994)
- High Fidelity, as Annaugh, (2000)
- Biography, (2001, appeared as herself in the episode about her sister Melissa Gilbert)
- 24, appeared in several episodes in season 2 as CTU Computer Analyst Paula Schaeffer
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show, (2003)
- Will & Grace, (2003, appeared in the episode "Fanilow")
- ER, (2004-Present, as Dr. Jane Figler)
- Strong Medicine as a recovered drug addict fighting to get her daughter back
- The Class, (2006, as Fern Velch in several episodes)
- The Big Bang Theory, as Leslie Winkle, recurring role
- Private Practice, appeared in the episode "In Which Sam Gets Taken For a Ride"
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/faces/sara_gilbert.shtml
- ^ http://www.fancast.com/people/Sara-Gilbert/40732/biography
- ^ "Curve's Fall 2005 TV Guide", Malinda Lo, Curve, Volume 15#6. Retrieved 2007-07-31.
- ^ "Roseanne's Sara Gilbert Expecting Second Child",February 02, 2007, By Kim Peiffer, People. Retrieved 2007-07-31.
- ^ "Sara Gilbert and partner welcome second child" Retrieved 2007-08-06.
