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Sara Driver

Actor, Producer, Director, Editor, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn December 15, 1955 (69 years)
Sara Miller Driver is an American independent filmmaker and actress. A participant in the independent film scene that flourished in lower Manhattan from the late 1970s through the 1990s, she gained initial recognition as producer of two early films by Jim Jarmusch, Permanent Vacation (1980) and Stranger Than Paradise (1984). Driver has directed two feature films, Sleepwalk (1986) and When Pigs Fly (1993), as well as a notable short film, You Are Not I (1981), and a documentary, Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2017), on the young artist's pre-fame life in the burgeoning downtown New York arts scene before the city's massive changes through the 1980s. She served on the juries of various film festivals throughout the 2000s.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Known For

  • Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
  • Paterson
  • Stranger Than Paradise
  • Broken Flowers
  • Permanent Vacation
  • Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Sleepwalk
  • You Are Not I
  • When Pigs Fly
  • Monsters
  • Uncle Howard
  • The Bowery

Filmography

2019
The Dead Don't Die · as Female Coffee Zombie
1989
1989
Mystery Train · as Airport Clerk
1988
Monsters (TV Series) · as Mom
1984
Stranger Than Paradise · as Girl With Hat
1980
Permanent Vacation · as Nurse

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