Throughout her career, Sarah Wayne Callies has moved between television, film and theatre with ease, quickly establishing herself as a talent to watch.

Callies is best known for her role as Dr. Sarah Tancredi in the dramatic action-packed FOX series Prison Break. A worldwide success, Prison Break received the 2006 People's Choice® Award for Favorite New Television Drama and was nominated for a 2006 Golden Globe® Award for Best Dramatic Television Series. Her extensive television credits include the role of Jane in the WB series Tarzan, from director David Nutter and executive producer Laura Ziskin; a recurring role on CBS' Queens Supreme, starring Oliver Platt and produced by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas; as well as guest-starring appearances on Law & Order: SUV, Numb3rs and LA Dragnet. Last fall, Callies co-produced and starred in the CBC pilot Tangled directed by Bronwyn Hughes. Callies plays a former spy trying to balance civilian life with a past life that refuses to leave her alone.

Callies recently wrapped production on the feature film Foreverland, which she stars opposite Juliette Lewis and Thomas Dekker. The film centers on a young man with cystic fibrosis, along with the sister of a fallen friend, who goes in search of a legendary healing shrine in Mexico.

She also stars opposite Milla Jovovich in the feature thriller Faces in the Crowd, about a woman with face-blindness trying to stop a serial killer. Previous to this she starred opposite Rupert Friend and Forrest Whitaker in Lullaby for Pi, for which she also wrote and performed a song for the soundtrack. Callies also starred as the female lead in the feature adaptation of James Redfield's international best-selling novel, The Celestine Prophecy. Her additional credits include starring opposite Josh Holloway and Dule Hill in Stewart Hendler's thriller Whisper.

Callies earned an MFA in classical acting from the National Theatre Conservatory and appeared in several main-stage productions with the Denver Center Theatre Company. Her undergraduate work includes a BA in Drama from Dartmouth College, with a minor in Women's Studies and a Senior Fellowship in Indigenous Theology.

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