Sarah Margaret Hagan (born May 24, 1984) is an American
television
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and
film actress
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.
Life and career
Hagan was born in
Austin,
Texas
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. She has been acting since the age of six, when her mother first signed her up for musical theater. Hagan was first involved with theater companies such as
Houston
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's Playhouse 1960, the Houston Grand Opera (where she sang in the children's chorus), the Crighton Playhouse, the Houston Music Hall and the Bitter Truth Theater. From there, she made her screen debut in the 1997 feature film ''Faith'', where she played the title character at age 13; her TV debut came on an episode of the
Calista Flockhart
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series ''
Ally McBeal'' in 1999.
Hagan's first major break came when she was cast in a recurring role as Millie Kentner on the short-lived
NBC
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cult TV series ''
Freaks and Geeks
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'' (1999–2000). Following that show's cancellation, she was cast on the
David Alan Grier
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NBC sitcom ''
DAG'', where she was originally slated to play Camilla Whitman, daughter of the US President; however, the role of Camilla was recast when the pilot episode was revamped before airing.
Following the lead of several fellow ''Freaks and Geeks'' cast members, Hagan then appeared in an episode of the short-lived
Fox
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Twelv ...
sitcom ''
Undeclared
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'' in 2001. Her next roles were a bit part in the
Jack Black
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movie ''
Orange County
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'' and a guest role as Melissa in ''
Boston Public
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'' in 2002. After that, she was cast as
Amanda in the seventh and final season of the hit cult series ''
Buffy the Vampire Slayer''.
In recent TV roles, Hagan appeared on the
ABC medical drama ''
Grey's Anatomy
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'' as Devo, a teenage girl whose religious beliefs conflict with getting treatment for a heart condition she was diagnosed with; she appeared on the NBC drama ''
Medium
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'', playing a character named Suzannah, a friend of Allison's (
Patricia Arquette
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) who appeared in two dreams flashing back to Allison's teen years; and she played the role of Patricia on an episode of the CBS legal drama ''
Close to Home''. She made her first venture into animation in 2007 when she played the voices of Lola Llama and Jungle Girl on two episodes of the
Cartoon Network series ''
My Gym Partner's a Monkey
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''.
Hagan next appeared in the direct-to-DVD
Warner Bros.
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comedy feature ''
Spring Breakdown
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The movie was originally filmed in 2006 and was then sold to Warner Independent Pictures, where it sat on the ...
''. She appeared in the role of Sandy in the ''
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* Naval Criminal Investigative Service, a United States law enforcement and intelli ...
'' episode "Seek".
Filmography
Film
Television
External links
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1984 births
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
American child actresses
American film actresses
American television actresses
Living people
Actresses from Austin, Texas