Sara Topham
Sara Topham is a Canadian actress. She is primarily associated with stage roles at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada.
Background
Sara Topham was born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, in 1976. She graduated from drama school at the University of Victoria in 1998.
Topham has played several major stage roles over the course of 13 years at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, specializing in ingénue-type figures in comedies and also sensitive and vulnerable types in dramas.Henry V by William Shakespeare – Princess KatherineAll's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare – DianaHenry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare – Lady MortimerAgamemnon by Aeschylus – CassandraThe Swanne: Princess Charlotte by Peter Hinton-Davis – DotNoises Off by Michael Frayn – Brooke AshtonHenry VIII by William Shakespeare – Anne BullenAs You Like It by William Shakespeare – RosalindThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams – LauraThe Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare – JessicaLondon Assurance by Dion Boucicault – GraceKing Lear by William Shakespeare – CordeliaAn Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde – MabelFuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega – LaurenciaThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde – GwendolenPeter Pan by J. M. Barrie – WendyDangerous Liaisons by Christopher Hampton – Présidente de TourvelTwelfth Night by William Shakespeare – OliviaThe Misanthrope by Molière – CélimèneBlithe Spirit by Noël Coward – RuthRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare – Juliet
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, American Airlines Theatre, 13 January 2011 – 26 June 2011, GwendolenThérèse Raquin adaptation by Helen Edmundson, Roundabout Theater at Studio 54, October–November 2015, minor roles and understudy Thérèse RaquinTravesties by Tom Stoppard, American Airlines Theatre, April–June 2018, CecilyLeopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard, Longacre Theatre, October 2022 – July 2023, Jana, Sally, and understudies
Roles in other companies
Topham played Titania and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Cecily in Travesties by Tom Stoppard at the McCarter Theatre, Miranda in The Tempest by Shakespeare at the Hartford Stage, Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Roundabout Theatre Company on Broadway, the Governess in The Turn of the Screw by Jeffrey Hatcher adapted from Henry James at the Belfry Theatre, Constanze in Amadeus by Peter Shaffer at Theatre Aquarius, and Mary Hatch in It's a Wonderful Life adapted for the stage at The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario, Canada.
Movies
In addition to film adaptations of Twelfth Night and The Importance of Being Earnest, Topham played Rachel Peabody in Disney's Eloise at Christmastime and Anna in Dying to Dance.