Sarah Solemani is a British-Persian BAFTA and WGA Award winning actor based in LA. Her four-part espionage thriller RIDLEY ROAD took the primetime slot on BBC One and was the highest-rated show on PBS Masterpiece this year. Her show CHIVALRY, a comedy that deals with sexual politics in the wake of #MeToo, recently aired on Channel 4, with Sarah co-creating and starring in alongside Steve Coogan.
Sarah can soon be seen in BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT A BOY, where she reprises her role as Miranda starring opposite Renee Zellweger, Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Sarah is best known for starring as the lead in BBC’s BAFTA-winning comedy series HIM & HER alongside Russell Tovey. Her acting credits also include HOW TO BUILD A GIRL, alongside Beanie Feldstein which won the FIPRESCI Special Presentations award at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival; The universal’s mega-hit comedy BRIDGET JONE’S BABY with Renee Zellweger & Colin Firth, Michael Winterbottom’s GREED with Steve Coogan & Isla Fisher & the hit BBC Comedy BAD EDUCATION. Sarah also starred in the Paul Abbott Channel 4 comedy NO OFFENCE opposite Joanna Scanlan and the multiple BAFTA winning INSIDE NO. 9.
She is currently co-writing RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA with David E. Kelley as a limited series with Nicole Kidman attached to star, and most recently did a rewrite of THE PAPER PALACE, a limited series based on Miranda Heller’s bestselling novel, both for HBO. Prior to this she wrote on Bill Hader & Alec Berg’s hit HBO series 'BARRY', for which she won a WGA Award, and the HBO Max series 'MADE FOR LOVE'. Sarah is developing a show with Alfonso Cuaron for Apple and adapting Mary Trump’s book 'Too Much And Never Enough' for television.