Sara Driver
Born 1955 (age 70) · Westfield, New Jersey, USA
Appears in 26 titles

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.

Filmography

The Dead Don't Die
5.4
The Dead Don't Die
2019
as Female Coffee Zombie
Stranger Than Paradise
7.2
Stranger Than Paradise
1984
as Girl with Hat
Mystery Train
7.3
Mystery Train
1989
as Airport Clerk
Permanent Vacation
5.9
Permanent Vacation
1981
as Nurse
Bloodhounds of Broadway
5.7
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
as Yvette
Blank City
7.1
Blank City
2011
as Self
Uncle Howard
6.5
Uncle Howard
2017
as Self
Keep It for Yourself
6.4
Keep It for Yourself
1991
as Sam
The Bowery
7.3
The Bowery
1994
as Self
Figaro Story
8.0
Figaro Story
1991
as Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
Strummer
1993
Some Days in January, 1984
Adios
Adios
2025