Sarah Wynter Biography (2)

Aussie Sarah Wynter recently returned from Vienna where she shot a star-turn performance in Bruce Beresford's Bride of the Wind opposite Vincent Perez and Jonathan Pryce. The film follows the life of Alma Schindler (Wynter), a talented composer and musician in her own right who forsakes her own dreams to marry famed composer Gustav Mahler (Pryce).

Currently, Wynter can be seen opposite Winona Ryder and Ben Chaplin in New Line's Lost Souls, in which she plays a pivotal role as Chaplin's sophisticated and mysterious girlfriend. Academy Award-winning cinematographer Janusz Kaminski directed the film.

Wynter's other credits include work on the independent films Farewell, My Love, in which she plays a Russian assassin, Jerks and MGM's Molly. She also appeared in MGM's Species 2. For television, she guest-starred in the television pilot for HBO's Sex and the City and appeared in the TNT feature Race Against Time, opposite Eric Roberts. The actress has also completed production on the independent feature Moving August.

Born in Newcastle, Australia, Wynter attended boarding school in Sydney and arrived in New York City at age 17 to study drama. There, she studied with Penny Templeton and appeared in various off-off-Broadway productions.

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