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Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

41

Gender

Female

Birthday

1955-12-15 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

Westfield, New Jersey, USA

Also Known As

Sara Miller Driver

Sara Driver

Biography

Sara Miller Driver is an American independent filmmaker and actress. A participant in the independent film scene that flourished in lower Manhattan from the late 1970s through the 1990s, she gained initial recognition as producer of two early films by Jim Jarmusch, Permanent Vacation (1980) and Stranger Than Paradise (1984). Driver has directed two feature films, Sleepwalk (1986) and When Pigs Fly (1993), as well as a notable short film, You Are Not I (1981), and a documentary, Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2017), on the young artist's pre-fame life in the burgeoning downtown New York arts scene before the city's massive changes through the 1980s. She served on the juries of various film festivals throughout the 2000s.

Known For

Acting

The Bowery

1994

The Bowery

as

Self

Blank City

2011

Blank City

as

Self

Stranger Than Paradise

1984

Stranger Than Paradise

as

Girl with Hat

Figaro Story

1991

Figaro Story

as

Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")

Strummer

1993

Strummer

as

The Dead Don't Die

2019

The Dead Don't Die

as

Female Coffee Zombie

Mystery Train

1989

Mystery Train

as

Airport Clerk

Uncle Howard

2017

Uncle Howard

as

Self

Production

Crew

Directing