SARAH SOLEMANI splits her time between London and LA with her husband and three children. She began her acting career in the theatre at the age of sixteen and performed critically acclaimed plays in the West End, the National Theatre, the Almeida and the Royal Court among others. She began writing her own material at Cambridge University where she has a masters in Political Science and would perform comedy shows above pubs and around the country including five original shows at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival.

Her plays have been produced throughout the UK and at the Public Theatre, New York and translated into several languages. She has appeared in forty TV shows and films, including the UK hit HIM AND HER which she won a Royal Television Society award for best actress. She is about to resume her character Miranda, Renee Zellweger’s best friend in the BRIDGET JONES franchise, for which she got nominated for an Evening Standard best actress award.

 

Sarah moved to Hollywood in 2016 to write with Bill Hader and Alec Berg on their hit HBO show BARRY, which she won the Writers Guild of America award for best new series. Her four-part anti-fascist espionage thriller RIDLEY ROAD took the primetime slot on BBC One and was the highest-rated show on PBS Masterpiece last year, is currently streaming on Amazon. Her show CHIVALRY, a comedy dealing with sexual politics in the wake of #MeToo, just aired on Channel 4, with Sarah co-creating and starring in alongside Steve Coogan and Wanda Sykes and soon to launch on new streaming service The Network. 

She is currently co-writing RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA with David E. Kelley as a limited series with Nicole Kidman attached to star. Sarah is writing a show about legendary brothel owner Cynthia Payne for Netflix with Gillian Anderson attached to star. She is also adapting Roald Dahl’s BFG for Netflix. Sarah is writing the espionage thriller ILIUM for Alfonso Cuaron’s company and adapting Mary Trump’s book TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH for television. She has written a satire on the British aristocracy DUDE, WHERE’S MY CASTLE? with Melanie Griffith attached to play her mother. She has recently returned from a trip to Afghanistan with politician Fawzia Koofi, looking at the female resistance movement to the Taliban for a feature she will write and direct. Later this year she will write and direct her first feature film MANGO with Andrea Riseborough and Melanie Linskey attached to star.