ABOUT
Acting
Mary Sarah is drawn to characters who live at the crossroads of grace and ache— her earlier life as a trauma therapist and UN Delegate to the Commission on the Status of Women made sure of that. These experiences gave her an unflinching closeness to the raw, unpolished edges of the human spirit, which now animate every role she inhabits.
Audiences and directors alike have been captivated by her ability to breathe both ferocity and fragility into her characters.
Helmed by three-time Emmy Award-winner Andrea Campbell, she led the film Death Valley: A Love Story, as Carol Emerson, a bereaved artist teetering on the edges of creation and collapse. In The Honor, which took home Best Film (CINEFEST), her raw, disquieting portrayal of a zealot mother unraveling was chilling. In Parallax, she appeared as Lucia Carnia, an unapologetically sharp,
truth-hunting researcher, which won Best Screenplay (Emerging Artist)—infusing the film with a spark that both unsettles and seduces, and her wild rendition of the neighborhood confidant, Desiree in, Call it in the Air, allowed her to be a part of a sizzling entourage that won Best Ensemble Cast (POCO Film Fest).
Her voice is just as arresting, earning a SOVAS nomination for the British medieval romance The Longing, by Tamara Leigh, winning an Independent Publishing Award as part of the joyous collaborative narration of Corona City, by Lorraine Ash, and sharing the delight for the 2025 Best Short Film Award at the Swedish Cinema House International Short Film Festival for The Burden as the voice of, The Ancient One, written by Vahid Fazel. Though American by birth, she’s been cast in over 400 British-based audiobooks — a quiet testament to her instinct for transformation and passion for language, garnering her the label; bidialectical!
Mary Sarah is forever seeking stories that unearth what’s hidden, crack us open, and leave a little more light—or shadow—pouring through. She welcomes collaborations that dare to go there.
Mary Sarah was classically trained at The Riverside Shakespeare Academy (NYC), Oxford Shakespeare Company (NYC), Royal Shakespeare Company (UK) and honed her film work over many years at The Actors Studio (NYC), and in the company of Jeffrey Stocker and Natalie Roy at the 2% Collective.
Voice Over
Some voices entertain—others pull you in, unravel you, and leave echoes that
linger. From Shakespeare to SOVAS-nominated performances, Actor/VO Artist,
Mary Sarah inhabits every story, moving between light and shadow, wonder and sorrow, weaving performances that haunt, captivate, and transform.
With over 15 years in the industry (nine as a full-time SAG-AFTRA actor), she’s
narrated 400+ audiobooks, given life to characters both beautiful and monstrous, and shaped worlds of complexity, inspiration and fantastical reality across film, video games, and animation.
Mary Sarah has worked with Tantor Media, Inc., Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Highbridge and over 20 independent publishers, as well as International Award-Winning and Jury Selected filmmakers and animators.
Past Lives, Present Magic
Before the booth, Mary Sarah listened—not just to words, but to the unspoken.As an Expressive Arts Therapist and Trauma-Informed Practitioner, she explored the rawest corners of human emotion. Now, she channels that depth into every
performance. Whether it’s a whispered secret, a battle cry, or a lullaby edged with sorrow—you feel it.
Origins
Mary Sarah’s childhood was basically a nonstop musical—except with more noise
complaints. She sang for hours on end until her family resorted to chucking
pillows at her bedroom door in a valiant but ultimately futile attempt to silence
her. She danced outside until her feet were scraped and sizzling, directed (and
likely strong-armed) neighborhood kids into her self-written plays, and filled every
1970s spiral journal she could find with songs—songs she’d later belt out on stage
with a touring band by the time she was 15.
As her musical journey took off, so did her voice—straight into the ears and
hearts of audiences. A decade-long collaboration with Montreal producer Danys
Levasseur solidified what she had only begun to suspect: her voice wasn’t just
loud—it could inspire, and occasionally was capable of reducing grown adults to
puddles of emotion.
