Mia Sara

Mia Sara, born Mia Sarapochiello on June 19, 1967, in Brooklyn Heights, New York, began acting as a teenager. Her first role was Princess Lili in Ridley Scott's 1985 fantasy film Legend, opposite Tom Cruise. A year later, she played Sloane Peterson, Ferris Bueller's girlfriend, in John Hughes's comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which made her a familiar face. She then starred in the 1987 miniseries Queenie and appeared in Sidney Lumet's A Stranger Among Us in 1992.

In 1994, Sara starred opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in Timecop, a role that won her a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her television credits include Annie Knox in the sci-fi series Time Trax (1993–94) and Dr. Harleen Quinzel in Birds of Prey (2002–03). She took a break from acting in 2013 and returned in Mike Flanagan's drama The Life of Chuck in 2024, her first film in over a decade.

Sara comes from a Catholic Italian-American family. Her parents were Diana, a stylist and photographer, and Jerome Sarapochiello, a photographer and artist. She attended St. Ann's School in Brooklyn. She married actor Jason Connery in 1996; they had a son, Dashiell, and divorced in 2002. She later had a daughter with Brian Henson and married him in 2010. Sara is also an avid poet.