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CSI: crime
scene investigation
“Sara
Sidle” (Jorja
Fox)
Sara Sidle was
born and raised an hour and half outside San
Francisco
on Tamales Bay. An only child of ex-hippies running
a bed and breakfast, Sara always needed a bigger stage. Everything about
her as a child was outsized: her intelligence, her energy, her
curiosity. Sara was pretty much all-or-nothing in high school, and as
talented as she was, grace didn’t come with the package. The other kids
resented her, and she did nothing to ease the resentment.
At
eighteen, Sara found a place where she could be at home. She went to
Harvard and enjoyed four of the best years of her life. She took as many
classes as she could. She went to as many parties as she could. And she
finally dated. Not well, but at least she tried. She attended graduate
school in theoretical physics before realizing that she was too frenetic
for a life of scholarly contemplation. One year later, she got a job in
the San Francisco
coroner’s office and spent five years there gaining an unofficial
education in forensic science. After that, she transferred to the
San Francisco crime lab before being contacted by Grissom,
who asked her to come to Las Vegas.
Like any tragic
figure worth her salt, Sara has a single flaw: people. She can solve any
problem except the problem of other people and how she’s supposed to
relate to them. As a result, she hides in her job. She pursues her
career rigorously, perhaps more so than any of the other CSIs, partly
because she’s still rebelling against her parents’ casual approach to
social obligations, and partly because she’s afraid of what she’d find
out about herself if she ever slowed down. Sara confronts her fears of
intimacy in season 6 when her romantic relationship with Grissom is
released to the audience. As a CSI, Sara’s specialty is materials and
element analysis.
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No
stranger to television, Jorja Fox came to CSI after starring in recurring roles in two top-rated series: ER, in which she played Dr. Maggie Doyle, and Aaron Sorkin's Emmy Award-winning drama The West Wing, in which she appeared as Secret Service Agent Gina Toscano. Additional credits include guest turns on Law and Order and the historic "coming out" episode of Ellen.
Fox has also managed to carve out impressive film credits, including the Sundance Film Festival favorite, Memento, in which she portrayed the murdered wife of Guy Pearce. She also appeared in two other films shown at Sundance – the quirky comedy How to Make the Cruelest Month and The Kill-Off, based on the book by Jim Thompson (The Grifters). More recent feature credits include the comedy Forever Fabulous with Jean Smart and Down with the Joneses opposite Joshua Leonard (The Blair Witch Project).
Having appeared in numerous stage productions, Fox continues to work tirelessly with Honeypot Productions, the theater company she co-founded. Honeypot has put up three plays to date, two of them written by Fox. The fourth play, Loving Stanley, which she also penned, is a comedic romp about the women's bowling circuit. Fox is currently producing the play Dear Bernard, which is open now for a limited LA run.
Born in New York City, Fox moved to the small coastal town of Melbourne Beach, Florida, with her French Canadian parents. Upon completion of high school, she moved back to New York to pursue her career in acting. Now residing in Los Angeles, Fox enjoys traveling, playing guitar, and singing. Fox's birth date is July 7.
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