biography of Sarah Greene

Elizabeth Sarah Greene

 is an English television presenter. She co-presented Blue Peter from May 1980 until June 1983, and hosted the Saturday-morning series Saturday Superstore and Going Live!.

Greene was born in London,  the daughter of Welsh DIY expert Harry Greene and English actress Marjie Lawrence. She is the elder sister of presenter Laura Greene. Greene was educated at Gospel Oak Primary School^{[citation needed]} and the Grey Coat Hospital School, London, whilst also pursuing child acting roles. She graduated with a degree in Drama from the University of Hull. She then sought acting roles in Birmingham, Manchester and London. 

In January 1980, Greene had a role in the daytime drama Together (Southern Television/ITV). She first appeared on Blue Peter  after appearing in the BBC adaptation of Pamela Brown's The Swish of the Curtain, following which she was asked by the programme's editor Biddy Baxter to be the replacement for the outgoing Tina Heath. At that time, Greene was the youngest ever presenter of Blue Peter, aged 22, and within two weeks was filming in Cornwall for the series. The programme won a BAFTA Award during Greene's three-year tenure.

After leaving Blue Peter, Greene presented Saturday Superstore with Mike Read, and subsequently co-presented Going Live! with Phillip Schofield. It was during her time on Going Live! that Greene won the 'Best Female on TV' SOS Award for three years running and presided over the phone-in. She then began to appear in television commercials for Nescafé coffee. Later, she fronted Channel 4's daytime antiques programme Collectors' Lot. 

On 10 September 1988, Greene and her partner Mike Smith, the television and radio presenter, were seriously injured in a helicopter accident in Gloucestershire. The couple spent a number of weeks in hospital before Greene returned to present Going Live!, whilst still in plaster. 

In addition to presenting magazine series such as the BBC's Pebble Mill and Good Morning Summer alongside Will Hanrahan, Greene acted in the Doctor Who serial Attack of the Cybermen,^[5] Casualty, Brookside and French & Saunders.  In 1991, Greene and Smith joined Maggie Philbin and Robbie Vincent as the presenters of Hospital Watch, a live fly-on-the-wall series on BBC One which had been shown on the channel since February 1986.  In 1992 she co-presented with Smith a hoax paranormal programme called Ghostwatch, which also featured Craig Charles and talk-show host Michael Parkinson. Greene and Smith made a foray into feature films with The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997), starring Bill Murray; they played presenters of The Theatre of Life, a fictional British television series which promised the participant a role in a crime drama.^{[citation needed]}

In 1996, Greene began a four-year partnership with the Carlton Food Network, hosting a daily news, debate and magazine series. Later, Greene appeared in the ITV programme Have I Been Here Before? and was also a regular presenter on magazine programme This Morning. She also made a guest appearance in the final episode of The Harry Hill Show, and from 2005 to 2007 she presented the Discovery Home & Health channel's Weddings Live, an annual six-hour broadcast which showcased several weddings live from across the country. Fellow presenters included Brendan Courtney and celebrity makeup artist and stylist Armand Beasley. Partnered with Fred Palascak, Greene competed on ITV's Dancing on Ice in 2008. 

Later, Greene took part in an episode of BBC Wales's Coming Home programme, first shown on 22 December 2010. Her mother had died a month before filming but she decided to continue the process, alongside her 87-year-old father. The programme was able to trace her family tree back to the 17th century in Wales 

Greene and her husband, Mike Smith, appeared on Pointless on BBC One in December 2012. Smith died on 1 August 2014, following complications after major heart surgery. 

In April 2017, Greene guest presented an edition of This Morning alongside Phillip Schofield. She returned to guest-present in July that same year, and again on 4 and 18 August, alongside Rylan Clark-Neal. 

In 2023, Greene co-presented the BBC One quiz show The Finish Line with Roman Kemp.

About

Longtime host of the BBC's Going Live! morning show and other live TV programs such as the children's series Blue Peter.

Before Fame

After graduating from the University of Hull, she became the youngest host of the show Blue Peter at age twenty-two.

Trivia

She has presented programs covering weddings, ice skating competitions, and lots of segments for The Food Network.

• Screen tested with Ryan Reynolds for the female lead in Deadpool.
• Nominated for a Tony award in 2014 (Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role - The Cripple of Inishmaan).
• In February 2016, Sarah was honored at The Oscar Wilde Awards alongside Daisy Ridley and James Corden at J.J Abrams' Bad Robot in LA.
• In January 2021 Sarah became a mother to a son. She was noticeably pregnant during the final filming of the comedy series 'Frank of Ireland' in September 2020.

Family Life

Her husband, Mike Smith, also worked as a TV presenter.

Associated With

She was in the 1987 film The Man Who Knew Too Little, starring Bill Murray.

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Sarah is originally from Cork and trained in Dublin where she graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting in 2006.

Sarah played Helen McCormick (Slippy Helen) opposite Daniel Radcliffe as Billy Claven in Martin McDonaghs's The Cripple of Inishmaan, directed by Michael Grandage at the Cort Theatre on Broadway,NYC. Sarah was nominated for a TONY award (Best Actress in a Featured Role) 2014 for her performance in this show, one for which she was already nominated for an Olivier Award in 2013 during it's West End run and for which she was awarded the 2014 World Theater Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut.

Other theatre includes Rough Magic's production of PEER GYNT for Dublin Theatre Festival 2011 her acclaimed performance as Alice in thisispopbaby's and the Abbey Theatre's hugely successful production ALICE INFUNDERLAND in 2012. She also appeared in ELLEMENOPE JONES both directed by Wayne Jordan at The Project Arts Centre, Dublin in 2011. Sarah appeared as Sorcha in Paul Howard's play BETWEEN FOXROCK AND A HARDPLACE at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin and Cork Opera House. She played Ismene in Rough Magic's production of PHAEDRA by Hilary Fannin, directed by Lynne Parker as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Sarah appeared as Amber in Guna Nua's award winning and highly acclaimed production of LITTLE GEM which won the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and led to a remounting of the production in New York as well as tours across the UK and Ireland. Other previous productions have included: Danti Dan for Galloglass, The Death of Harry Leon for Ouroboros, The Year of the Hiker and The Playboy of The Western World, The Empress of India, and most recently Big Maggie, all with Druid Theatre Company and directed by Garry Hynes.

Sarah stars as Christina Noble alongside Deirdre O'Kane, Liam Cunnigham and Brendan Coyle in Stephen Bradley's feature NOBLE and has already won awards Jury and Audience awards at the Boston Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Newport Beach Festival, Nashville and Dallas Festivals.

In 2014, Sarah was cast alongside Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller in The Weinstein's 'Untitled John Wells Project' and joined the cast of Showtime's Penny Dreadful playing Hecate Poole.

Other film and television includes: RAW RTE/Ecosse Films, EDEN/Samson Films, SPEED DATING/RTE, BACHELOR'S WALK/Samson Films/RTE. She played the leading role of Cathleen in the Canadian/Irish feature LOVE AND SAVAGERY directed by John N. Smith. MY BROTHERS (Treasure Films) and THE GUARD (Element) opposite Brendan Gleeson. She most recently appeared as Judith in three episodes of VIKINGS (History Channel/MGM).

Greene became ambassador for ovarian cancer charity Target Ovarian Cancer in 2012.

From 1985, Greene and her husband Mike Smith were directors of Flying TV Ltd., an aviation video company operating helicopters based at Denham Aerodrome, Denham, Buckinghamshire. Since the death of Smith, Greene has remained director of the company.

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