Sara Topham

Sara Topham is a Canadian actress born in 1976 in Victoria, British Columbia, where she was also raised. She completed her drama training at the University of Victoria in 1998 and has since built a career spanning Broadway productions, regional theatre, and film.

Topham is most closely identified with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, where she performed across thirteen seasons between 2000 and 2013. Her work there encompassed a wide range of classical and modern roles. Among her Shakespeare credits at Stratford, she played Princess Katherine in Henry V (2001), Diana in All's Well That Ends Well (2002), Lady Mortimer in Henry IV, Part 1 (2002), Anne Bullen in Henry VIII (2004), Rosalind in As You Like It (2005), Jessica in The Merchant of Venice (2006), Cordelia in King Lear (2007), and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (2013). She also appeared as Olivia in Twelfth Night (2011). Beyond Shakespeare, her Stratford roles included Cassandra in Agamemnon (2003), Brooke Ashton in Noises Off (2004), Laura in The Glass Menagerie (2006), Grace in London Assurance (2006), Mabel in An Ideal Husband (2007), Laurencia in Fuente Ovejuna (2008), Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest (2009), Wendy in Peter Pan (2010), Présidente de Tourvel in Dangerous Liaisons (2010), Célimène in The Misanthrope (2011), and Ruth in Blithe Spirit (2013).

Topham made her Broadway debut at the American Airlines Theatre in The Importance of Being Earnest, running from January 13 to June 26, 2011, in which she played Gwendolen. She returned to Broadway in October 2015 for the Roundabout Theater's production of Thérèse Raquin at Studio 54, where she took on minor roles and served as understudy for the title character in Helen Edmundson's adaptation. In April 2018, she appeared at the American Airlines Theatre again in Tom Stoppard's Travesties, playing Cecily. Her most recent Broadway credit is Stoppard's Leopoldstadt at the Longacre Theatre, which ran from October 2022 through July 2023, where she played Jana, Sally, and covered additional roles as an understudy.

Outside of Stratford and Broadway, Topham played Titania and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in 2012, and Miranda in The Tempest at Hartford Stage the same year. Also in 2012, she played Cecily in Travesties at the McCarter Theatre. Earlier regional credits include the Governess in The Turn of the Screw at the Belfry Theatre (2008), Constanze in Amadeus at Theatre Aquarius, and Mary Hatch in a stage adaptation of It's a Wonderful Life at The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario.

Topham has also worked in film, appearing as Rachel Peabody in Disney's Eloise at Christmastime (2003) and as Anna in Dying to Dance (2001), as well as in film adaptations of Twelfth Night (2012) and The Importance of Being Earnest (2011).