Sara Paxton is Living the “Beautiful Life”.
Sara Paxton is a self professed dork and a shy girl. She tries her best to stay out of the way of the paparazzi, keeping her head down and doing her job. What could possibly get the shy blonde with the good girl image into the glitz and glamour of Hollywood? Jealousy. As Sara told Portrait in her 2007 interview, her mother originally did not want her daughter to be an actress, but when Sara saw a relative on the cover of a local newspaper, she managed to convince her family to let her give it a try. And she’s been working ever since.
Although Paxton booked lots of commercials and smaller roles from the age of 6 onward, it was her five episode stint on the WB’s “Summerland” that garnered her a lot of attention and a small tween following. From her turn as Jesse MacCartney’s character’s girlfriend, she moved right on to the movie “Sleepover” (in which she played the mean girl) and her very own television series “Darcy’s Wild Life,” establishing a niche in teen media.
“Darcy’s Wild Life” was meant to be a children’s program, and it followed the fish out of water story of a California girl moving to live with her family in an African animal preserve. It ran from 2004 to 2006 as part of a Saturday morning kids lineup in the United States. The show told a tale of the adjustments the character would have to make and the importance of wild life conservation. It was probably an easy pick of a role for Sara, who is a big animal lover.
Her next big project was 2006’s “Aquamarine,” another fish out of water tale, though this time, almost literally. Sara was given the title role of a mermaid who was looking for true love. The movie served to bring mermaids back into the spotlight for little girls for the first time since Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” in the 1980s. It also gave Sara an introduction to Emma Roberts, one of her costars in the film, who would become one of her close friends. The two actually lived very close to one another, and Sara even got a mention in the thank yous in Emma’s soundtrack for her television series “Unfabulous.” READ MORE
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