Sarah Rush

Sarah Rush is an American actress who became known for her television work, especially the original Battlestar Galactica. Born in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, she earned a theater BFA summa cum laude from Pennsylvania State University, trained with Uta Hagen and Milton Katselas, and is a member of the Actors Studio. Her stage credits include Our Town, As You Like It, Toyer at the Kennedy Center, The Glass Menagerie, She Stoops to Conquer, and the one-woman show The Belle of Amherst. In the original Battlestar Galactica (1978) she played Flight Cpl. Rigel across eleven episodes, and her other television appearances include The Incredible Hulk, Dr. Strange, Happy Days, Quincy, M.E., Tales from the Darkside, Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, and Monk. She narrated and starred in The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania, a 2005 documentary which Patricia Heaton produced and David Hunt directed, and it received the Heartland Film Festival Award in 2006.