Sara Botsford
Sara Botsford (born August 4, 1951) is a Canadian television and film actress. She starred in the CTV drama series "E.N.G." (1989-1994) for which received Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role. Career. She is probably best known for her role of Ann Hildebrand in the television series "E.N.G." for which she won a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role. Before this role, her most remembered role is the wickedly evil character of Lillith McKechnie, AKA Isabella, on the daytime drama "As the World  Turns" from 1988 to 1990. In "Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story" (1996), she portrayed Marlene Moore's (Brooke Johnson) lawyer. In 2002, she portrayed Kathleen Sinclair in the TV movie "Trudeau" about the life of the late Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. In 2003 she appeared in "Burn: The Robert Wraight Story". Her film roles have included appearances in "Crossbar" (1979), "By Design", "Murder by Phone", "Deadly Eyes", the Hitchcockian thriller "Still of the Night" (all 1982), "Legal Eagles" (1986), "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1986), and "The Gunrunner" (1989), opposite Kevin Costner. More recently she played a hotel owner in  the American Old West in "" (2004), and Kathy Williams in the remake of "The Fog" (2005). She played Marilla Cuthbert in the 2016 "Anne of Green Gables" TV movie, opposite Martin Sheen, and its two sequels. Personal life. Botsford and Alan Scarfe had one child. Her son Jonathan is also an actor. Her only marriage was to James Hurdle with whom she had two sons, Gideon and Quinn. She currently lives with Christopher "CB" Brown, with whom she has a theatre company, 49th Parallel Theatre. Their mandate is to produce Canadian plays and adaptations for an American audience. They are  based in Los Angeles. They also are the creators of the award-winning web series "Those Damn Canadians", starring Christopher Shyer and Lynda Boyd.