Sarah Carter Biography

Sarah Sanguin Carter (born October 30, 1980) is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Maggie in the TNT science fiction series Falling Skies.

Early life and education

Carter was born in Toronto and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She attended Balmoral Hall School where she was a dancer and took part in school plays including The Wizard of Oz, in which she played Dorothy. She was in the prestigious Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Carter was also on the debate team and named one of the top three public speakers in the world. She competed in various countries including Austria, England and Argentina.

After graduating high school, Carter moved to Switzerland where she studied fine arts at Neuchâtel Junior College for one year. She subsequently attended Ryerson Theatre School in Toronto. At some point Carter took time off from acting, spending time in India and Cuba, where she worked in an orphanage.

Career

Carter's early television career included appearances in Wolf Lake, Dark Angel, and Undeclared, and she was also cast in minor screen roles in Final Destination 2 and Mindstorm, where she appeared alongside Eric Roberts, Michael Ironside, and Antonio Sabato Jr.

Carter first appeared as a major character in a television role in 2003 when she played Allie Bennett in Black Sash and the following year she also appeared in three episodes of Smallville, she played fan favorite Alicia Baker, who has a romantic relationship with Clark Kent.

In 2006, Carter starred in the film DOA: Dead or Alive, playing the character Helena Douglas, a fighter who enters a martial arts contest. The following year she also starred in the film Killing Zelda Sparks as Zelda Sparks.

Carter's later television career has included playing the character Madeline Poe, a rookie prosecutor in Shark between 2006 and 2008, appearing in all 38 episodes of the series. In 2009 she also appeared in three episodes of CSI: NY, as the character Haylen Becall, a forensic school graduate.

More recently, Carter has become a regular character, Maggie, on the TNT series Falling Skies, which debuted in June 2011. An apocalyptic alien invasion story, season 2 began on June 17, 2012 and concluded on August 19, 2012. Season 3 premiered June 9, 2013.

Music career

Carter released a solo album Before Three in December 2009.

She is part of the duo SanguinDrake, founded in 2010. To date (December 2012) the band has released four self-produced music videos on their website. On May 12, 2012 Sanguindrake released their first album Pretty Tricks.

Philanthropy

On June 19, 2011, Carter was one of thirty-five climbers that scaled Mount Shasta to raise money for the Breast Cancer Fund, for which she is a spokesperson. Her mother and aunt have both had breast cancer. She has also hiked the West Coast Trail.

Credits

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2002	K-9: P.I. (video)	Babe
2003	Final Destination 2	Shaina
2004	Haven	Chanel
2005	Berkeley	Alice
2006	Skinwalkers	Katherine
	DOA: Dead or Alive	Helena Douglas
	Pledge This!	Kristen Haas
2007	Killing Zelda Sparks	Zelda Sparks
2009	Red Mist	Kim	aka Freakdog
	Misconceptions	Lucy
2010	The Guru and The Gypsy	Maggie Turner
2011	Marathoners	Willow Hill	Short Film
2012	The Vow	Diane
	Tripping Tommy	Maggie	Post-production

Television

Year	Show	Role	Notes
2000	Cold Squad	Libby Logan	"Root Cause"
2001	Trapped	Claire Thorensen	Made for TV movie
	Los Luchadores	Maria Valentine
	The Immortal	Ellie	The Good Squire
	Mindstorm	Rayanna Armitage
	Wolf Lake	Brianna	"The Changing"
	Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell	Melissa Bell
	Dark Angel	Katarina	"Boo"
2002	Undeclared	Evie	"The Perfect Date"
	The Sausage Factory	Valerie	"Hang Ups"
2003	Black Sash	Allie Bennett
	The Twilight Zone	Amber	"Sunrise"
	A Date with Darkness	Sarah
2004	Entourage	Cassie	"The Sundance Kids"
	Numb3rs	Nadine Hodges	3 Episodes
2004"2005	Smallville	Alicia Baker	"Obsession" (3.14), "Unsafe" (4.11), "Pariah" (4.12)
2005	Boston Legal	Tracey Green	"It Girls and Beyond"
2006"2008	Shark	Madeleine Poe	38 episodes
2008	Confessions of a Go-Go Girl	Angela Lucas
	Dirty Sexy Money	Wrenn Darcy	2 Episodes
2009	CSI: NY	Haylen Becall	Recurring Role
2010	White Collar	Pierce	"Home Invasion"
2011	Salem Falls	Addie Peabody	Made for TV movie
2011"present	Falling Skies	Margaret "Maggie"	Series regular