Sara Botsford (born April 8, 1951) is a Gemini Award-winning Canadian actress. She is probably best known for her role in the television series E.N.G. for which she won a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role. Sara portrayed Kathleen Sinclair in the TV movie Trudeau about the life of the late Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
She was previously married to Alan Scarfe with whom she had two children. Her son Jonathan is also an actor.
Mother of Jonathan Scarfe.
Originally appeared on TV and in movies as a blonde, later changed to a redhead.
Has three sons.
In 2007, she directed the play "The Cover of LIFE". She played the role of Kate, the reporter, in the 1994 New York production of The Cover of LIFE.
Attended theatre classes at York University where she played dramatic heavies, usually much older than she was and/or ethnic parts.
Her first exposure to the theatre was at age six when she played the Virgin Mary, cast because she owned the only boy doll in town.
Born in Northern Ontario in a small village outside of Kirkland Lake, she was the daughter of a mining engineer and a nurse.
