Sarah Wynter (born 15 February 1973)
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on the television drama '' 24'', as Beth on '' Windfall'', and as Keitha on ''

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''.

Early life

Wynter was born in

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, the daughter of Helen Cummings, a worker in the Newcastle registry of the

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and lately authoress, and Stuart Wynter, a physician. Her grandmother,

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, was the Lord Mayor of Newcastle – Australia's first female Lord Mayor. In 1984, her father killed his second wife and Sarah's half-sister before killing himself.

Career

Wynter's interest in acting led her to move to New York City when she was 17 to study drama.

Television

Wynter earned her

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card by landing a role on the ''Sex and the City'' pilot, playing what she later summarized as the first woman to have sex on that show. A few years later, she was recognized by SAG again, as part of the second-season cast of ''24'' when it earned a SAG Award nomination as Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Wynter played Kate Warner and appeared in all 24 episodes plus the third-season premiere, and she provided her voice for '' 24: The Game''. She had a recurring role in '' The Dead Zone'' and starred in the series '' Windfall'' in 2006. In 2009, Sarah appeared in "

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", an episode of the second season of ''

'' as "Keitha", the Australian girlfriend of Jemaine. In 2013 she played the role of Whitney Robshaw in "Protest Too Much" the 17th episode of the third season of the

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police procedural drama '' Blue Bloods''. She signed on to ''

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'' in a recurring role. She guest starred in the episode "Identity Crisis" in the first season of ''

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'', and appeared in ''

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''. She also appears on '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' Season 18 episode "Motherly Love".

Film

Wynter's first movie was ''

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'' as the fiancée of the infected astronaut Patrick Ross. Wynter appeared in ''

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'' alongside

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and '' Lost Souls'' with

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as well as numerous independent movies such as ''

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''. Her Australian feature film debut ''

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'', was released in 2005. She was also cast as Daisy Adair in '' Dead Like Me: Life After Death'', the straight-to-DVD movie version of Showtime TV series ''

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'', replacing

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who had played her sister on '' 24''. Australian director

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cast Wynter as the lead in '' Bride of the Wind'', his ambitious 2001 biopic of

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, the wife of composer

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(and, after Mahler's death, of architect

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and subsequently of writer

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Personal life

On 20 August 2005, Wynter married ''

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'' magazine editor-in-chief

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in Sydney. The couple have three children. After struggling with infertility, her first son was born in 2008. After two attempts at

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and a

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, Wynter gave birth to twin boys in 2011. Following the birth of the twins, Wynter developed

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which took several years for her to recover from. Wynter and Peres divorced in 2014.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wynter, Sarah 1973 births Actresses from New South Wales Australian film actresses Australian television actresses Australian expatriate actresses in the United States Living people People from Newcastle, New South Wales 21st-century Australian actresses People educated at Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School