Sarah-Jane Potts

Acting

Sarah-Jane Potts

Born 1976-08-30 · Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Sarah-Jane Potts (born 30 August 1976) is an English actress, who is best known for her roles as Saint (Sarah) in Sugar Rush, as Ellie an on/off girlfriend on Casualty, as Staff Nurse Eddie McKee in Holby City, and as Jo Lipsett in Waterloo Road. Sarah-Jane Potts is also the sister of actor Andrew-Lee Potts best known for his Connor Temple in Primeval. Early in her career she noted that "In the three years I have been acting I have spent most of the time looking dirty, scruffy, ill or tarty". Description above from the Wikipedia article Sarah-Jane Potts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Kinky Boots poster
6.7

Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.

Kinky Boots

2005

Barely Legal poster
5.9

Teenager Deacon works at a video shop, and his buddies, Fred and Matt, sell the bootleg porno films he acquires. Deacon gets fired, but the pals have the bright idea of filming their own Internet porn flick in order to make money and become more popular at school. Hijinks ensue as they cast and create their movie, but porn industry player Vic Ramalot grows jealous of their burgeoning success and tries to put a stop to the project.

Barely Legal

2003

The Escort poster
5.4

Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He meets friendly Tom, who offers to help him make ends meet by working as a male escort.

The Escort

1999

Prancer: A Christmas Tale poster
6.5

Ten-year-old Gloria and her recently widowed grandfather Bud befriend a mysterious reindeer when the family gather for Christmas. Bud comes to believe that Prancer may actually be magical, but Gloria fears his theory will send him straight to a retirement home.

Prancer: A Christmas Tale

2022

The Lockdown Hauntings poster
4.2

With the streets now empty, it isn’t just nature that is taking advantage of this unprecedented global disaster. Spirits are freer than ever before and the spirit of a notorious serial killer, AKA ‘The Locksmith’, is back from the dead and he has even more potential victims. Can self-isolating detective George Parker with the guidance of paranormal expert Jordan Myers, prevent more young women from becoming victims of The Lockdown Hauntings?

The Lockdown Hauntings

2022

Wonderland poster
6.6

Living in working-class London, Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters navigate quiet lives of loneliness: cafe waitress Nadia searches for love through personal ads, hairdresser and single mother Debbie balances casual romance with co-parenting alongside her volatile ex, and expectant mother Molly copes with a partner overwhelmed by impending fatherhood.

Wonderland

1999

Vengeance Is Mine poster
4.8

Harry is a broken man, struggling to come to terms with the murder of his wife and daughter 5 years previously. When he discovers the whereabouts of the killers he awakens from his grief and, like an avenging angel, resolves to never stop until they are all dead.

Vengeance Is Mine

2021

My Son the Fanatic poster
5.0

Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.

My Son the Fanatic

1997

Five Seconds to Spare poster
5.1

A young musician travels to London in pursuit of his dreams, but winds up the sole witness to a bizarre murder.

Five Seconds to Spare

2000

Stock poster
5.0

‘Stock’ is a genre-bending short film set in the Manchester Warehouse district. The story follows a Frenchman, newly living in the UK, who becomes caught up in an unwanted conflict with the authorities. An absurd, Post-Brexit fairy tale that plays with language, miscommunication, and European anxiety.

Stock

2019

Young Blades poster
6.4

Young Blades follows D'Artagnan (Hugh Dancy), a young arrogant swordsman; Radegonde (Sarah-Jane Potts), a clever girl he meets in the woods; and a trio of Musketeers as they attempt to thwart a plot to send France and Spain into war.

Young Blades

2001

Woundings poster
3.4

A government program is trying to entice women to go to a remote island and become companions to war-scarred soldiers.

Woundings

1998

Breaking Dawn poster
5.7

Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life on the outside tread the line between fantasy and reality as a stalker becomes known to her. She could be in danger; it could all be in her head.

Breaking Dawn

2004

The Chameleon poster
4.4

No synopsis available yet.

The Chameleon

2015

Signs of Life poster
6.0

A grieving woman is rescued by a lonely traveller after a dangerous encounter on holiday.

Signs of Life

2025

The Canterville Ghost poster
NR

'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, and the original short story deserves the popularity. It is a witty spoof about a ghost and the 'haunted' mansion where a rich American family start to live. In this story, the family are not annoyed by the presence of the ghost; no, it is the ghost who is annoyed by the family who just refuse to be terrified. After all, why should we be scared by an old man wearing rusty coat of mail, whose best trick is to walk in the middle of night making big noises?

The Canterville Ghost

1997

You Can Choose Your Friends poster
6.0

Comedy drama about a family reunion written by and starring Richard Herring. It's Ken and Margaret Snell's 45th wedding anniversary and their children and grandchildren along gather to celebrate. For Ken and Margaret's children, it's a day to revisit childhood arguments and to paper over present-day fractures in their relationships.

You Can Choose Your Friends

2007

Heart of a Dragon poster
6.2

In an instant their lives were changed forever. Now on an adventure half way across the world, four friends search for answers that will lead them to the Great Wall of China - pushing their friendships to the limits. To survive a journey that will save or destroy their lives will take the Heart of a Dragon.

Heart of a Dragon

2008

Meat poster
4.5

Brilliant, brutal and shocking drama starring Jonny Lee Miller and John Simm, following an ex-convict who falls for a prostitute, but makes a dangerous enemy of her pimp.

Meat

1994

Reunited poster
2.0

Six former friends reunite eight years after their houseshare ended in acrimony and recrimination. But is newly-engaged Martin playing with fire by seeing old flame Hannah?

Reunited

2010

The Magician poster
NR

Award winning Short film by Sarah-Jane Potts. A woman is saved by an unexpected encounter. Director/writer Sarah-Jane Potts says; "Tennessee Williams said, 'The world is violent and mercurial, it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love. "There is no love without connection and there is no connection without kindness." This film is my ode to kindness, and kindness is magic."

The Magician

2022

Blood on Benefits poster
4.0

A man named Gabriel wakes up in an unfamiliar white room and finds himself bleeding and chained to the wall. His gaze stops on the dark figure opposite him.

Blood on Benefits

2007

#AmeriCAN poster
6.0

At the dinner table sits a white family: the father (a police officer), a mother and their two sons—a teenager and his younger brother. The teenager has an African-American friend, J.B., whom he wants to hang out with, but his father doesn’t want him leaving the house to meet up with J.B.—and especially not at night. “I want to keep you from bad situations,” the father explains to his son—an eerie foretelling, but more important, indicative of the violence that this white man associates with all black boys, even J.B., a black boy he knows personally and considers to be “a good kid.”

#AmeriCAN

2014

No Vacancies poster
NR

James has a good job, a good home, a good wife, but it isn't enough. Ali is single, single-minded, singularly focused on James. They meet in the same room, in the same hotel. Mariella watches them - unknown, unseen, unheard. She's the hotel cleaner who deals with the debris, the aftermath of their passion. She dreams of a similar life. This has been the pattern for some time, but Ali wants more. James can't give it. He wants to keep it as it is. It starts to play with Ali's head. She schemes and dreams and fantasises. Things start to unravel, but Mariella is used to cleaning up mess. She is thorough; methodical, meticulous.

No Vacancies

Behind the camera