Sarah Bolger

Sarah Bolger is the Irish actor who portrays Aurora on ABC's Once Upon a Time.

Biography

Sarah Lee Bolger was born on February 28, 1991, in the town of Dublin in the Republic of Ireland.^[1] She is the daughter of Monica Bolger, a former banker, and Derek Bolger, who is a butcher and owns an organic meat shop in the suburb of Rialto called "Ennis Butchers".^[2] Her younger sister is fellow actor Emma Bolger.^[2] As a child, Sarah attended Dublin's The Young People's Theatre School, which led to her first on-screen role at age six in the 1999 television movie A Love Divided alongside Orla Brady and Liam Cunningham.^[2] From 2003 to 2009, she attended Loreto High School in Rathfarnham.^[2] Having missed mock exams because of her work schedule, Sarah substituted attending school with on-set tutors with a total of nine subjects, English, Maths, Irish, Biology, Business studies, French, Classics, and Geography, that she studied for towards her June 2009 Leaving Certificate.^[3]

She is best known for her 2003 role as Irish immigrant Christy Sullivan in the film In America, Mallory Grace in the 2008 movie adaptation of fantasy book series The Spiderwick Chronicles and as Princess Mary Tudor in the television biopic The Tudors. Outside of acting, Sarah has expressed interest in computers and writing and keeps fit by going to the gym and walking her dogs.^[2]

Trivia

Is trained to speak in an American accent.^[2]
Worked with Colin O'Donoghue on Showtime television series The Tudors where he played Duke Philip of Bavaria, a romantic interest to her character, Princess Mary Tudor.
Was taught fencing swordplay for her role in the 2008 fantasy film The Spiderwick Chronicles^[3] with a three-week crash course in Dublin and two weeks with a Canadian Olympic fencing coach.^[2]
A fan of American dramas Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives.^[2]
Is friends with rising Irish actor Saoirse Ronan^[3] as well as Once Upon a Time co-star Jamie Chung.

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	A Love Divided	Eileen Cloney	Movie
2003	In America	Christy	Movie
2005	Premonition	Azura	Short film
2005	Tara Road	Annie	Movie
2006	Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker	Sabina Pleasure	Movie
2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles	Mallory Grace	Movie
2009	Iron Cross	Kashka	Movie
2011	The Moth Diaries	Rebecca	Movie
2012	As Cool As I Am	Lucy Diamond	Movie
2013	Crush	Jules	Movie
2013	Kiss Me	Zoe	Completed
2014	Outlaw	Michelle	Post-production
2015	The Lazarus Effect	Eva	Movie
2015	Emelie	Emelie	Movie
2015	My All American	Linda Wheeler	Movie

Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	A Secret Affair	Helena Fitzgerald	TV movie
2002	World of Tosh		TV series
2004	The Clinic	Janey Quinn	2 episodes
2006	Stardust	Lorraine Keegan	TV miniseries
2008–2010	The Tudors	Mary Tudor	23 episodes Irish Film & Television Award for Actress in a Supporting Role (2010)^[4]
2012	Locke & Key	Kinsey Locke	TV series - Unaired pilot
2012–2018	Once Upon a Time	Aurora	Guest starring
2013	Gilded Lilys	Violet Langton Lily	TV movie
2013	Mixology	Janey	Pre-production
2015	Into the Badlands [1]	Jade	Post-production

Voice
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles	Mallory Grace	Video game (Voice credit)
2010	Bioshock 2	Eleanor Lamb	Video game (Voice credit)
2013	From Up on Poppy Hill	Umi Matsuzaki	Anime (Voice credit)

Appearances

Once Upon a Time: Season Two
"Broken":	"We Are Both":	"Lady of the Lake":	"The Crocodile":	"The Doctor":	"Tallahassee":	"Child of the Moon":	"Into the Deep":	"Queen of Hearts":	"The Cricket Game":	"The Outsider":
Appears	Appears	Appears	Absent	Appears	Appears	Appears	Appears	Appears	Absent	Absent
"In the Name of the Brother":	"Tiny":	"Manhattan":	"The Queen Is Dead":	"The Miller's Daughter":	"Welcome to Storybrooke":	"Selfless, Brave and True":	"Lacey":	"The Evil Queen":	"Second Star to the Right":	"And Straight On 'Til Morning":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears

Once Upon a Time: Season Three
"The Heart of the Truest Believer":	"Lost Girl":	"Quite a Common Fairy":	"Nasty Habits":	"Good Form":	"Ariel":	"Dark Hollow":	"Think Lovely Thoughts":	"Save Henry":	"The New Neverland":	"Going Home":
Appears	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"New York City Serenade":	"Witch Hunt":	"The Tower":	"Quiet Minds":	"It's Not Easy Being Green":	"The Jolly Roger":	"Bleeding Through":	"A Curious Thing":	"Kansas":	"Snow Drifts":	"There's No Place Like Home":
Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Appears

Once Upon a Time: Season Four
"A Tale of Two Sisters":	"White Out":	"Rocky Road":	"The Apprentice":	"Breaking Glass":	"Family Business":	"The Snow Queen":	"Smash the Mirror":	"Fall":	"Shattered Sight":	"Heroes and Villains":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Darkness on the Edge of Town":	"Unforgiven":	"Enter the Dragon":	"Poor Unfortunate Soul":	"Best Laid Plans":	"Heart of Gold":	"Sympathy for the De Vil":	"Lily":	"Mother":	"Operation Mongoose Part 1":	"Operation Mongoose Part 2":
Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Season Five
"The Dark Swan":	"The Price":	"Siege Perilous":	"The Broken Kingdom":	"Dreamcatcher":	"The Bear and the Bow":	"Nimue":	"Birth":	"The Bear King":	"Broken Heart":	"Swan Song":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Archive	Absent	Absent
"Souls of the Departed":	"Labor of Love":	"Devil's Due":	"The Brothers Jones":	"Our Decay":	"Her Handsome Hero":	"Ruby Slippers":	"Sisters":	"Firebird":	"Last Rites":	"Only You":	"An Untold Story":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Season Seven
"Hyperion Heights":	"A Pirate's Life":	"The Garden of Forking Paths":	"Beauty":	"Greenbacks":	"Wake Up Call":	"Eloise Gardener":	"Pretty in Blue":	"One Little Tear":	"The Eighth Witch":	"Secret Garden":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"A Taste of the Heights":	"Knightfall":	"The Girl in the Tower":	"Sisterhood":	"Breadcrumbs":	"Chosen":	"The Guardian":	"Flower Child":	"Is This Henry Mills?":	"Homecoming":	"Leaving Storybrooke":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Archive

Once Upon a Time: Specials
"Magic is Coming":	"The Price of Magic":	"Journey to Neverland":	"Wicked is Coming":	"Storybrooke Has Frozen Over":
Absent	Archive	Archive	Archive	Archive
"Secrets of Storybrooke":	"Dark Swan Rises":	"Evil Reigns Once More":	"The Final Battle Begins":
Archive	Archive	Absent	Absent