Biography
Sarah Paulson is an American actress among the many honors she has received are a Tony Award, a Golden Globe, and a Primetime Emmy. She was listed as one of the top 100 important persons in the world by Time magazine in 2017.
Age
She is 49 years old as of 17 December 2023. She was born in 1974 in Tampa, Florida, United States. Her real name is Sarah Catharine Paulson.
Family – Education
Sarah is the child of Douglas Lyle Paulson II and Catharine Gordon, née Dolcater. Up until the divorce of her parents when she was five years old, she was raised in South Tampa. She moved to Maine and subsequently New York City with her mother and sister following the divorce of her parents. Before relocating to Park Slope, Paulson lived in Queens and Gramercy Park with her mother, a waitress. During this time, she remembered, “My mom was 27 years old [when we moved].” Paulson grew up spending her summers in Florida with her father, an executive at a company that manufactured doors in Tampa. Before enrolling in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School in Manhattan, she attended P.S. 29 and Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn.
Husband – Children
From 2004 to 2009, she dated actress Cherry Jones. Before this relationship, she had solely dated men—playwright Tracy Letts, her previous fiancé. She has been dating the actress Holland Taylor since early 2015.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $12 million.
Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m).
American Horror Story
Sarah Paulson played Billie Dean Howard, a medium who paid a visit to the Murder House in Season One. In Asylum, she played Lana Winters, an intrepid journalist who ventures into Briarcliff Manor. In Coven, she played Cordelia Foxx, the witch headmistress of Miss Robichaux’s Academy, and in Freak Show, she played Bette and Dot Tattler, conjoined twins.
She also played addict ghost Sally McKenna in the fifth season of Hotel, and she returned as psychic medium Billie Dean Howard in the season finale. In Roanoke, she plays Audrey Tindall, an actress who plays Shelby Miller in the terrifying documentary “My Roanoke Nightmare”.
She played Ally Mayfair-Richards, a lady dealing with her phobias, in the film Cult. She plays Wilhemina Venable in Apocalypse, a malevolent lady who unleashes horrors onto the dying earth. Additionally, she mostly played Cordelia Goode, the current Supreme and headmistress of Miss Robichaux’s Academy. Ryan Murphy announced her comeback for Double Feature in February. Paulson played two roles in the film: in “Red Tide,” she played Karen, an aspiring artist, and in “Death Valley,” she played First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, a fictitious figure.
“Return to Murder House” from Apocalypse, the much-awaited crossover between the eighth and first episode of the series, was Paulson’s first film under her direction. Paulson oversees Double Feature as an executive producer as well. Aside from Murder House, Roanoke, and Apocalypse, she has received Primetime Emmy nominations for each season of American Horror Story in which she has appeared.
Mrs. America
She played Alice Macray, a fictional composite character created to symbolize the conservative women who supported Schlafly’s “STOP ERA” movement; she is a homemaker and friend of Phyllis. Mrs. America is based on and dramatizes the story of the Equal Rights Amendment ratification effort, as well as the unanticipated response spearheaded by Blanchett’s conservative activist character, Phyllis Schlafly.
The series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the 1970s culture wars helped give rise to the Moral Majority and permanently shifted the American political landscape through the eyes of women of that era, including Schlafly and prominent second-wave feminists such as Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, and Jill Ruckelshaus. Every episode begins with a notice acknowledging that some scenes and characters have been dramatized for creative purposes.
The Bear
She appeared as Michelle Berzatto, cousin of Michael, Carmy and Natalie in the American comedy-drama television series The Bear. Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, a teenage chef, inherits his family’s Italian beef sandwich shop following his older brother’s suicide. He returns to Chicago to oversee it, putting behind his life of working in Michelin-starred restaurants. He is left to cope with his brother’s unpaid bills, a deteriorating kitchen, and an unruly staff, all while dealing with his own grief and familial tragedy.
Movies
♦ 2020 – Run
♦ 2019 – Glass
♦ 2019 – The Goldfinch
♦ 2019 – Abominable
♦ 2018 – Ocean’s 8
♦ 2018 – Bird Box
♦ 2017 – Rebel in the Rye
♦ 2017 – The Post
♦ 2016 – Blue Jay
♦ 2015 – Carol
♦ 2015 – The Runner
♦ 2013 – 12 Years a Slave
♦ 2012 – Mud
♦ 2012 – Fairhaven
♦ 2012 – The Time Being
♦ 2012 – Stars in Shorts
♦ 2011 – Martha Marcy May Marlene
♦ 2011 – New Year’s Eve
♦ 2008 – The Spirit
TV Shows
♦ 2024 – Mr. & Mrs. Smith
♦ 2023 – Saturday Night Live
♦ 2023 – The Bear
♦ 2021 – American Horror Story: Double Feature
♦ 2021 – Impeachment: American Crime Story
♦ 2020 – Mrs. America
♦ 2020 – Coastal Elites
♦ 2020 – Ratched
♦ 2019 – Family Guy
♦ 2018 – American Horror Story: Apocalypse
♦ 2018 – American Horror Story: Apocalypse
♦ 2017 – Feud: Bette and Joan
♦ 2017 – American Horror Story: Cult
♦ 2017 – American Horror Story: Cult
♦ 2016 – The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story
♦ 2016 – American Horror Story: Roanoke
♦ 2016 – American Horror Story: Roanoke
♦ 2015–2016 – American Horror Story: Hotel
♦ 2015–2016 – American Horror Story: Hotel
♦ 2014–2015 – American Horror Story: Freak Show