Sara Driver

Biography

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.

Known For

The Dead Don't Die

as Female Coffee Zombie

Stranger Than Paradise

as Girl with Hat

Mystery Train

as Airport Clerk

Permanent Vacation

as Nurse

Bloodhounds of Broadway

as Yvette

Blank City

as Self

Uncle Howard

as Self

Keep It for Yourself

as Sam

The Bowery

as Self

Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver

as Self (voice)