Sarah Paulson Biography

Fast Facts

• Made her professional debut at 12 in an Off-Broadway play
• Appeared on the small screen for the first time shortly after she graduated high school in a 1994 episode of Law & Order; in 2010, she guest starred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Jessica Lange was her favorite actress while growing up, and she appeared with Lange in a revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie in 2005, and later co-starred with Lange in American Horror Story
• In 2010 she starred in Collected Stories on Broadway
• Portrayed a young Ellis Grey, Meredith Grey's mother, in flashback scenes of a 2010 episode of Grey's Anatomy
• While on the The Late Show with David Letterman, she admitted that she's a hypochondriac and gets anxious while flying
• Became the first person to win five major TV awards (the Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, Critics' Choice and Television Critics Association) for her work on American Crime Story: The People vs
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• Does impressions, including those of Holly Hunter, Kathleen Turner and a dolphin