Sara Sidle

Sara Sidle was born and raised an hour and half outside San Francisco on Tamalas Bay. Sara was an only child of ex-hippies running a bed and breakfast. Everything about her as a child was outsized: her intelligence, her energy and her curiosity. Unlike her parents, Sara always maintained perfect self-discipline When she was a child Sara’s mother killed her father. Sara was pretty much all-or-nothing in high school, and as talented as she was, grace didn’t come with the package. The other kids resented her.

At eighteen, Sara found a place where she could be at home. She went to Harvard and enjoyed four of the best years of her life. She took as many classes as she could. She went to as many parties as she could and she finally dated. She attended graduate school in theoretical physics before realizing that she was to wild for a life of academic scrutiny. One year later, she got a job in the San Francisco coroner’s office and spent five years there gaining unofficial education in forensic science. After that, she transferred to the San Francisco crime lab. During the time she was there she went to the Forensic Academy Conference and saw Gil Grissom for the first time. Later on Grissom contacted Sara and asked her to come to Las Vegas.

Sara has a single flaw: people. She can solve and problem, in the world, except the problem of other people and how she’s supposed to relate to them. As an outcome she hides in her job. She pursues her career, perhaps more so then any of the other CSIs. Partly as she’s still rebelling against her parents casual approach to social obligations and partly since she’s afraid of what she might find out about herself if she ever slowed down. As a CSI Sara’s specialty is materials and element analysis.


Sara Sidle is played by Jorja Fox (or Jorjan-an Fox)


JORJA FOX
Jorja Fox (born Jorja-An Fox July 7, 1968 in New York, New York) is an American actress. She is best known for having played major roles in three successful television dramas: ER (1994), The West Wing (1999) and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-present).
In 2003, she was ranked #80 in Stuff magazine's list of the 103 sexiest women. She is annually nominated for PETA's "World's Sexiest Vegetarian".

Jorja Fox was born in New York City, the youngest child of Montreal-born parents, and was raised on a narrow barrier island in Melbourne Beach, Florida. Jorja Fox describes herself as being overweight while growing up, with a prominent gap between her teeth. Over the years she had a variety of strange items stuck between her two front teeth, including a quarter [1] and some rocks.[2] By her twenties, neither her wisdom teeth nor braces had appreciably helped, and Jorja said "forget it". [3]
After attending Melbourne High School for two years, she began a modeling career after winning a local contest. Subsequently she enrolled as a drama student at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, under the tutelage of actor William Hickey.



After appearing in several minor films and TV series, inlcuding a 1993 episode of Law & Order, Fox entered the limelight in 1996 when she appeared (originally as "Jorjan Fox") on the hit NBC television series ER, as the no-nonsense medical vegetarian intern Maggie Doyle. This recurring character was eventually revealed to be a lesbian; playing up that fame, Fox appeared on the coming out episode of Ellen ("The Puppy Episode Part 2", 30 April 1997).
Fox went on to appear in the movies Velocity Trap and Food for the Heart. In 1999, she was cast as another recurring character: Secret Service Agent Gina Toscano on NBC's series The West Wing. She also appeared briefly in Christopher Nolan's Memento, playing Guy Pearce's wife in occasional flashbacks.

In 2000 she became one of the lead characters of the CBS series CSI, in which she portrays a Las Vegas forensic scientist called Sara Sidle.
Fox is the co-founder of Honeypot Productions, an independent avant-garde theatre company in Los Angeles. The company has produced five original plays, four of them written by Jorja. The fourth play, Lovely Stanley, is a comedic romp about the women's bowling circuit.[4] Her friend and HoneyPot co-founder Heather Reid wrote Dear Bernard, which Fox helped produce.
Fox is also a musician: she plays guitar (badly, she says) and recently purchased a drum kit. She also sings and writes songs, most notably the song "Lullabye" for the movie Traveling Companion, as well as the song "Satellite" which she published on her official web site. Jorja and CSI co-star Marg Helgenberger sang "Stand by Me" as a duet for What a Pair 4!!, an annual charity event to raise money for breast cancer research.
She currently resides in Los Angeles with her dog Ali and two cats, Rumplestiltskin and Sid Poitier.

Controversy
She and CSI co-star George Eads received some bad publicity in 2004 when they were fired. Fox had allegedly failed to submit a letter to CBS confirming that she would be on time for shooting. The disputes were resolved in just over a week, and the two were rehired by CBS; however, neither actor's salary was raised like the rest of their co-workers. It was also reported that of the two, Fox was approached first to resume her contract with CSI - but she refused until Eads was rehired as well.[7]
On April 18, 2007, TV Guide began reporting that Jorja Fox may not be returning for the eighth season of CSI, having not yet signed a new contract.[8] The season finale turned out to be a cliffhanger involving her character, Sara Sidle.[9] The New York Post reported that Jorja did not show up to film the finale because of ongoing issues over her employment.[10] Neither CBS nor Jorja's agent have confirmed the allegations.
In September 2007, after rumors emerged about Fox's departure from the show[11], an online forum called "Your Tax Dollars At Work", that has about fifteen-thousand members, started a campaign to keep Sara Sidle on CSI, the campaign (called Dollars for Sense) includes mailing the show's producers a dollar so as to keep Fox on the show. With the help of donations, the campaign also organized plane flyovers, on Tuesdays and Thursdays of October's two first weeks, over the Universal Studios, in California, where CSI is filmed. The banners read"Keep Jorja Fox on CBS".[12][13]