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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).
Having appeared in numerous
stage productions, Fox continues to work tirelessly with Honeypot
Productions, the theater company she co-founded. Honeypot has put
up six plays to date, three of them written by Fox.
Born in New York City, Fox moved to the small coastal town of Melbourne Beach,
Florida, with her French Canadian parents. Now
residing in Los Angeles, Fox enjoys traveling, playing
guitar, and surfing. Fox's
birth date is July 7.
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