Paula Sage

Sage's performance in the 2003 British film AfterLife,^[3] playing Roberta Brogan,^[4] brought her a BAFTA Scotland award for best first time performance and Best Actress in the Bratislava International Film Festival, 2004.^[5] Her character is sister to Kevin McKidd's character, and daughter to Lindsay Duncan's. In review, critic Liz Hoggard found "the most remarkable thing about the film is the purity of Sage's performance."^[6]

AfterLife also won the Audience Award at the 2005 Edinburgh International Film Festival. It also won Sage a role as Donna McCabe in BBC Scotland's River City soap.^[2]

Sage won a silver medal as a member of the British netball team at the Special Olympics.^[2][7] She is an ambassador for Down's Syndrome Scotland and Mencap, and a patron of the Ann Craft Trust. She was the first person with Down syndrome to be a Mencap ambassador.^[2] She worked part-time at a travel agency and cafe in Glasgow.^[8]

• Paula Sage at IMDb 
• Paula Sage interview on Woman's Hour (13 August 2004).
• A 2004 photograph of Paula Sage and Shirley Henderson, at Getty Images.