Sarah White Drew is an
American actress, director and producer, known for playing Hannah Rogers in The
WB family drama series Everwood (2004–2006) and Dr. April Kepner in
the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy (2009–2018).
Date of birth
She was born on October 1, 1980.
Family
Her mother, Dr. Jeannie Drew, is
now teaching biology at an independent private school for girls in Manhattan.
Her father, Rev. Charles Drew, is the senior pastor at Emmanuel Presbyterian
Church in New York City. Her brother, Allen Drew, is a pastor at Mt. Airy
Community Church in Philadelphia and director of an a cappella group at
Germantown Friends School. Sarah is also cousins with actor, Ben
McKenzie who starred in The O.C. and currently stars in Gotham.
Early life & Education
Drew was born and raised in Stony
Brook, New York, where she attended The Stony Brook School. She received a
bachelor's degree in drama from the University of Virginia in 2002. She began
acting in school plays, community theater with Take One Theatre Arts, and
summer stock.
Love life
Drew married Peter Lanfer, a
lecturer at UCLA, in June 2002. In 2012, they had their first child, a son. In
2014, the couple had a daughter.
Net worth
Not yet established.
Career
In 1997, while still in high school,
Drew voiced Stacy Rowe on the animated series Daria. She also voiced that
character in the Daria television films Is It Fall
Yet? and Is It College Yet?.
In 2001, she made her professional
stage debut as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the McCarter Theatre in
Princeton, New Jersey. She made her Broadway debut in 2003 in Vincent in
Brixton, which later took her to London's West End.
She made the move to television with a
guest role in the series Wonderfalls, and was in the film Radio. She
appeared as Katie Burrell, the daughter of a Japanese relocation camp sergeant,
in the 2007 film American Pastime.
From 2004 to 2006, Drew starred as
Hannah Rogers in The WB drama series Everwood. She later guest-starred
on Cold Case, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Medium, Castle, Glee, Privileged, Supernatural,
and Private Practice.
She starred in the Hallmark Hall of
Fame film Front of the Class (2008), and from 2008 to 2009, she had a
recurring role as Kitty Romano in the AMC drama series Mad Men. In 2014,
she starred in the film Moms' Night Out.
In 2009, Drew was cast as Dr. April
Kepner in the medical drama series Grey's Anatomy. Drew was cast in late
September and first appeared in the sixth season episode “Invasion" as one
of the residents from Mercy West Hospital after its merger with Seattle Grace.
Drew was brought aboard Grey's Anatomy after former collaborations
with series creator , Shonda Rhimes; she was featured as a guest in two
episodes of Private Practice in 2008 and was a main cast member in
Rhimes' 2009 television pilot Inside the Box, which ABC passed on. In
2010, she was promoted to a series regular for the seventh season.
In March 2018, it was announced that
Drew, along with Jessica Capshaw, would be exiting the series.
Showrunner Krista Vernoff stated that the decision was purely
creative, not budgetary.
Shortly following the announcement of her Grey's Anatomy exit, Drew was cast as Detective Cagney in CBS's Cagney & Lacey reboot pilot. On May 11, 2018, CBS passed on the pilot.
She appeared among the cast of Christmas In Vienna (2020) TV movie.
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First Name | Sarah |
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Surname | Drew |
Born | 1st October, 1980 |
Home City | New York, U.S. |
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