Sarah Polley on her acting career in 1989
Future filmmaker also revealed dreams of winning Wimbledon one day
At age 10, Sarah Polley didn't want to be an actor when she grew up -- she was already an actor, for one thing.
"I can't picture myself being an actress when I grow up," she told host Denise Rudnicki of CBC's Midday in 1989. "I want to win Wimbledon. That's my ambition."
For 1988's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Polley's first major film role, she temporarily lost her hearing from an explosion on the set — as she explains in the clip seen at the top of this page.
But the experience didn't end her acting career, and she went on to star in the 1990-96 CBC-TV series Road to Avonlea and worked with director Atom Egoyan on 1994's Exotica and 1997's The Sweet Hereafter.
Later on, Polley left acting to work behind the camera, first with 2006's Away From Her, an adaptation of an Alice Munro story that Polley wrote and directed.
