Even though Sarah Douglas was born and raised in Stratford-Upon-Avon, and knew that she wanted to act, she did try to expand options available to her. She worked in a factory and for a time, also in a sterilizing department of a hospital. She briefly moved to France and also undertook a teacher training course in English and Drama. However, these were all abandoned in favour of acting. Soon after leaving Drama School, she won her first film role in Les décimales du futur (1973) as well as starring in the television series The Inheritors (1974). Other work began to follow, including the television series Cosmos 1999 (1975) and the films The Brute (1977) and Le continent oublié (1977). During the filming, the casting began for the science fiction blockbuster Superman (1978). And the rest is history.
