June 2007
SARAH PARTRIDGE
Sarah Partridge
sings up a storm
these days in jazz
and cabaret rooms
around the country
but her other
showbiz career is in
Hollywood films
and television.
A Life in Film and Television
From Tom Cruise's friend and neighborhood babysitter to a studious pony to a
clairvoyant animal whisperer to a tough desk cop and more, Sarah Partridge's screen
credits have taken her to places that most of us can only imagine. And, when she's
not acting, she's singing. A talented songbird who has performed at some of the finest
venues across the country, she shares both of her gifts with a passion that fans not
only see and hear, they feel.
Tom & Sarah
Starting out with a role as the baby sitter in Risky Business in 1983 with actor
Tom Cruise was not a bad way to begin a career in Hollywood! Little did the recent college grad Sarah Partridge know what a legend and superstar Cruise would
become . . . but her first impression of the charming young man was that he had dazzling charisma and a mighty strong hand grip! The two remain friends today.
In 1984, Partridge appeared in The Naked Face, a film in which Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens (Roger Moore) is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death
in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince cops Rod Steiger and Elliott Gould of his
innocence, Dr. Stevens is forced to go after the real villains himself, and he finds himself up against one of
the city's most notorious Mafia kingpins.
Then, in 1985 Sarah co-starred [in the role of Barbara] with actress Kristy McNichol in Love
Mary, a CBS Television Movie of the Week filmed in Vancouver in which a teen (Kristy McNichol), who is
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always in trouble in school and has been sent to reform school, then turns her life around when a counselor
(Rachel Ticotin) discovers she is dyslexic.
That same year, Sarah also appeared in an episode with Adrienne Barbeau in one of television’s most revered sci-fi series, The Twilight Zone, playing the role of the student teacher in an episode entitled “Teacher's Aide/
Paladin of the Lost Hour.” That series, created and narrated by Rod Serling,
featured such soon-to-be-famous actors as Robert Redford, William Shatner, Burt Reynolds, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Carol Burnett,
James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Peter Falk and Bill
Mumy, as well as such established stars as silent-film giant Buster Keaton, Art
Carney, Mickey Rooney, Ida Lupino and John Carradine.
A voice-over career: Sarah's voice-over work began in 1986 with the
movie, My Little Pony, which then turned into a 65 episode series. Her character was Wind Whistler, the "studious pony." That led to another 65 episode
series, Defenders of The Earth. Her character in that series was Jedda, a superhero with clairvoyant capabilities, who could speak with animals! She also did voice-overs for several episodes of Disney's
Darkwing Duck.
Kristy & Sarah
Sarah Partridge has
appeared in films and
on television with
actors such as Kristy
McNichol, Tom Cruise,
Kate Jackson, Angela
Lansbury, Beatrice
Arthur and Heather
Locklear.
One of Partridge’s other acting roles in 1986 was in Perfect Strangers, the Emmy-nominated television sitcom about a high strung and cynical man's life that is never the same when his naive but goodnatured cousin comes to America to live with him.
In 1987, she appeared in the Golden Globe-winning television sitcom The Golden Girls with Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty. That year, she also appeared in the
films In The Mood starring Patrick Dempsey and Walk Like a Man with Howie Mandel.
Then in 1988, Sarah landed a recurring character role in Baby Boom, a Metro-Goldwyn Mayer television series starring Kate Jackson based on the 1987 film starring Diane Keaton of the same name.
Lying, cheating, stealing, seduction, backstabbing, betrayal, murder . . . it was just another day at Melrose Place, a highly rated Golden Globenominated television drama starring Heather
Locklear that also featured Sarah Partridge as the
woman desk cop in an episode in 1992. Later that
year, she also had a part in a 1992 episode of fourtime Golden Globe winner Mad About You, a light
television comedy featuring Paul Reiser and
Helen Hunt as a recently married couple in New
York City.
Murder She Wrote was a popular six-time
Golden Globe-winning crime drama starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher,
turned detective. Partridge appeared in a 1993 episode entitled “Ship of Thieves” in the part of Agnes
Lowry.
While Sarah was constantly tapped for a diversity of roles and enjoyed a prosperous acting career, she
took a break to pursue singing. Perhaps, the renowned poet Maya Angelou says it best, "A bird doesn't sing
because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." Just listen to her three albums or catch her on
stage, and you'll know immediately that singing, like acting, is a true calling for Sarah Partridge.
Contact:
AuClair McClair Associates
Public Relations
Sue Auclair: 617-522-1394; jazzwoman@earthlink.net
Carolyn McClair: 917-686-0854; CarolynMcClairPR@aol.com
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