BIO

Sara Jewell is an actor born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and currently based in London, England.  

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She recently starred in $10k Grand Prize Winning short film LUNCH, directed by Dom Jones.  

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Sara was nominated Best Actress at the Unrestricted View Film Festival for her lead role in feature film Shopping Channels.   

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"Credit must go to Sara Jewell, whose nuanced performance provides a more intimate human connection with the audience" for her role as Violeta Imperial in Iphigenia Crash Land Falls (Bread & Roses, UK), SpyInTheStalls Theatre Review.  One of Sara's favourite roles has been playing "The left Lung" in a devised physical theatre piece Her Body is a Minefield (White Bear, UK).        

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Sara trains in martial arts and is an advanced kickboxer, she is certified with a broadsword BASSC (British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat). She competed nationally in swimming and is a certified scuba diver (AOWD). Sara speaks Mandarin with native pronunciation.

 

She studied at Royal Holloway, University of London where she earned a scholarship to the University of California, Santa Barbara. Receiving Dean's Honors, she then went on to train at the Michael Howard Studios in New York. 

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Sara co-directed and starred in her short film, An Intimacy, which had its first screening at the Cannes Film Festival, Short Film Corner.  She is currently working on her next short film, Binary.  To see more of Sara's work as a filmmaker click here.    

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Influential Teachers

Totality of The Actor - Andrew Darren Elkins 

The Chubbuck Technique - Patrick Regis / Ivana Chubbuck 

Kinetic Movement - Polina Klimovitskaya 

Voice - David Wells