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'''Sarah Clarke''' played [[Nina Myers]] on ''[[24]]'' and voiced the same character in ''[[24: The Game]]''. She won the Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Drama in 2003. She, along with [[Kiefer Sutherland]] and [[Cherry Jones]], are the only actors to have won awards for their work on 24.
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'''Sarah Clarke''' {{born|February|16|1972}} played [[Nina Myers]] on ''[[24]]'' and voiced the same character in ''[[24: The Game]]''. She won the Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Drama in 2003. She, along with [[Kiefer Sutherland]] and [[Cherry Jones]], are the only actors to have won awards for their work on 24.
   
 
== Biography ==
 
== Biography ==

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"It was like an end of an era to see the show end. When I went to the finale party it was great to see so much of the crew that was still involved. The fact they they were able to keep it such a viable show for eight seasons is great. We didn’t think it was going to get past season two."
Sarah Clarke on the finale to 24 in 2010


Sarah Clarke (born February 16, 1972; age 52) played Nina Myers on 24 and voiced the same character in 24: The Game. She won the Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Drama in 2003. She, along with Kiefer Sutherland and Cherry Jones, are the only actors to have won awards for their work on 24.

Biography

Clarke is 5'4" (1.63 m). She attended Indiana University. During the filming of the first season of 24, she met actor Xander Berkeley who played George Mason. They married shortly after and have starred together in films like The Third Date, Below the Belt, and Alibi. On television, they starred together in "Wainy Days" and on "Karen Sisco", also with Thomas Kretschmann. Clarke gave birth on September 23, 2006, to their first girl, Olwyn Harper Berkeley.

Clarke began acting in the theatre while working as an architectural photographer. In her first short film, Pas de deux, she won an Outstanding Performance award at the Brooklyn Film Festival. She recently starred in Twilight with Billy Burke, Jose Zuniga, and Ned Bellamy, and cameos in the sequels Eclipse and Breaking Dawn: Part 1. She also starred in A House Divided with Nestor Serrano.

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Clarke while filming Day 1; taken from director Jon Cassar's photo gallery site

On television, she has starred in "Trust Me" with Greg Ellis, "Commander In Chief" with Harry Lennix, Ever Carradine, Anthony Azizi and Eyal Podell, "Las Vegas" with JoBeth Williams and Tom Choi, and "Sex and the City" with Donnie Keshawarz.

She also worked on the NBC's short-lived "E-Ring" (with Dennis Hopper and Anil Kumar).

Recently, she appeared with her husband in The Booth at the End, a series of short episodes that appears on Hulu. She guest-stars as a nun who becomes pregnant so she can hear the voice of God again. Another indie she appeared in recently was 2010's Below the Beltway (with Annie Wersching).

She has been credited in some projects as Sarah Lively.

24 credits

24-related appearances

Selected filmography

  • Bedrooms (2010)
  • Below the Beltway (2010)
  • Women in Trouble (2009)
  • Twilight (2008)
  • The Lather Effect (2006)
  • Happy Endings (2005)
  • Thirteen (2003)
  • Emmett's Mark (2002)
  • The Accident (2001)
  • All About George (2000)
  • Pas de deux (2000)
24 Day 2 Sarah Clarke Weapons Prep

Jon Cassar reported that while Clarke's acting abilities came naturally, she still had to be trained for the various firearm scenes during filming.

Television appearances

  • The Tomorrow People (2014)
  • Covert Affairs (2012)
    • This one is particularly noteworthy for her role as Lena Smith. The characters of Lena and Nina share some major similarities.
  • Nikita (2011-2012)
  • The Booth at the End (2011)
  • Men of a Certain Age (2009-2011)
  • Trust Me (2009)
  • The Cleaner (2008)
  • Life (2007)
  • Las Vegas (2005)
  • House, M.D. (2005)
  • Karen Sisco (2003)
  • Ed (2001)
  • Sex and the City (2000)

Background information and notes

  • In Day 3 an ID of Nina Myers is displayed, where she uses the name Sarah Berkeley, her real name since her wedding with Xander (George Mason).
  • Sarah Clarke's casting occurred the very morning of the shooting of the pilot. Since the costume department didn't have time to fit her, she wore her own clothing throughout the entire first season.

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