Sarah Polley is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director and actor. After making short films, Polley made her feature-length directorial debut withAway from Her in 2006. Her other projects includeStories We Tell, which won the New York Film Critics Circle prize and the National Board of Review award for best documentary; the miniseries adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace; and the romantic comedy Take This Waltz. She won an Oscar for the screenplay ofWomen Talkingin 2023, which she adapted from Miriam Toews' novel, and also directed. As a child she starred in the long-running children's series Road to Avonleaand in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.