Sara Lindsey

Sara Lindsey is an actress from Washington, D.C. who grew up in Ellicott City, Maryland, and started performing as a child, appearing in a first grade production based on Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic. She kept acting through school and in professional theater productions in her area, and was also a serious musician, serving as principal oboist with the Peabody Preparatory Sinfonietta in Baltimore and singing in the Maryland All State Choir for six years. She studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University and graduated with a BFA in 2011. While still a student she booked her first film role, in J.J. Abrams's thriller Super 8, and within a year of graduating she had roles in four features, among them Promised Land (2012), with Matt Damon and Frances McDormand, along with Won't Back Down, Fun Size and Jack Reacher.