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Sara Gilbert (born Sara Rebecca Abeles on January 29, 1975 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actress best known for her longtime role as Darlene Conner-Healy in the late 1980s/early 1990s U.S. sitcom Roseanne.

Television career

Gilbert decided at a young age that she wanted to be an actress after seeing her older sister Melissa Gilbert star in Little House on the Prairie
. The roles she has played tend to reflect her laid back and unthreatening personality. Following appearances in television movies and a commercial for Kool Aid, at the age of thirteen she landed the role of Darlene Conner, the sarcastic middle child, in Roseanne. Sara was a constant cast member during the show's nine-year run from 1988 to 1997, for which she also wrote an episode called Don't Make Me Over. Sara's contribution was considered so important to Roseanne that the show's producers arranged the filming schedule to allow her to study at Yale University while remaining part of the cast. At university, she majored in art with an emphasis on photography and she graduated with honors in 1997. To coincide with her personal life, Sara wanted her Roseanne character Darlene to come out as a lesbian, although ABC executives were not ready for a lesbian in a prominent role.

Gilbert has also made guest appearances in many TV shows such as The Simpsons, 24, ER, and Will & Grace . She returned to prime time television in the fall of 2005 in the sitcom Twins on The WB network.

Movies

Gilbert has appeared in two films alongside Drew Barrymore, in Poison Ivy in 1992 and Riding In Cars With Boys in 2001. She has had several other minor roles following Roseanne, including short film $30 (aka 30 Bucks) as part of the Boys Life 3
feature. She directed her own short film Persona Non Grata in 1998. She also made a cameo appearance in the film High Fidelity
in 2000, appearing alongside Jack Black and John Cusack.

Personal life

In her teens, Gilbert became a vegetarian. Today, she supports numerous organizations such as PETA, Meals on Wheels, Freedom of Speech, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, AIDS Project Los Angeles and Animal Rights. She's in a relationship with television writer and producer Allison Adler, who in October 2004 gave birth to a baby boy named Levi Hank Gilbert Adler. Adler received the son via sperm donor.

Awards

In 1993 Sara Gilbert was nominated for the Emmy award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in Roseanne as well as the Independent Spirit Award award for Best Supporting Female for her role in Poison Ivy. She was nominated again in 1994 for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for Roseanne.

Starring roles

Calamity Jane, 1984
Roseanne (TV series), as Darlene Conner, 1988 - 1997
Runaway Ralph, 1988
Sudie And Simpson, 1990
Poison Ivy, 1992
50 Simple Things Kids Can Do To Save The Earth, 1992
Dead Beat, 1994
Broken Record, 1997
Desert Blue, 1998
Persona Non Grata, 1998, Sara starred as a narrator as well as directing this short film
Light It Up, 1999
The Big Tease, 1999
$30, 1999
Jack & The Beanstalk, 2000, a children's animated movie for which Gilbert did a voiceover
Welcome To New York (TV series), as Amy Manning, 2000
Riding In Cars With Boys, 2001
Twins (TV series), as Mitchee, 2005

Guest appearances and cameos

The Simpsons (TV series), as Laura Powers in the episode "New Kid On The Block," 1993
Saturday Night Live
, hosted one episode in 1994

Biography, 2001, appeared as herself in the episode about her half sister Melissa Gilbert
24, 2002, appeared in four episodes as a computer analyst
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, 2003
Will & Grace, 2003, appeared in the episode "Fanilow"
ER, 2004, as medical student Jane Figler in several episodes
Strong Medicine as a recovered drug addict fighting to get her daughter back

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