Sara Gilbert

Date of Birth: January 29, 1975
Place of Birth: Santa Monica, California, USA

Sara Gilbert Biography

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Sara Gilbert mini-bio: Sara Gilbert is an Emmy-nominated American actress best known for her longtime role as Darlene Conner-Healy from 1988-1997 in the U.S. sitcom Roseanne. Gilbert decided at age six that she wanted to be an actress after her older sister Melissa Gilbert got a plaque on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Following appearances in television movies and a commercial for Kool Aid, at the age of thirteen she landed the role of Darlene Conner, the sarcastic middle child, in Roseanne. Sara was a cast member during the show's nine-year run from 1988 to 1997, for which she also wrote a fourth-season episode called "Don't Make Me Over." Sara's contribution was considered so important to Roseanne that the show's producers arranged the taping schedule to allow her to study at Yale University while remaining part of the cast. At Yale, she majored in art with an emphasis on photography; she graduated with honors in 1997.

Gilbert has also made guest appearances in many TV shows such as The Simpsons, 24, ER, and Will & Grace . She returned to prime time television in the fall of 2005 in the sitcom Twins on The WB network; the sitcom was canceled after one year when The WB and UPN networks merged to become The CW Network. She is also in the new CBS comedy The Class. Gilbert has appeared in two films alongside Drew Barrymore, in Poison Ivy in 1992 and Riding In Cars With Boys in 2001. She has had several other minor roles following Roseanne, including short film $30 (aka 30 Bucks) as part of the Boys Life 3 feature. She directed her own short film Persona Non Grata in 1998.