Sarah Wynter (born 15 February 1973) is an Australian actress, known for her roles on American television – such as Kate Warner on the television drama 24, as Beth on Windfall, and as Keitha on Flight of the Conchords.
Early life
Wynter was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, the daughter of Helen Cummings, a worker in the Newcastle registry of the Family Court of Australia and lately author, and Stuart Wynter, a physician.
Her grandmother, Joy Cummings, was the Lord Mayor of Newcastle – Australia's first female Lord Mayor.
Career
Wynter's interest in acting led her to move to New York City when she was 17 to study drama. playing what she later summarized as the first woman to have sex on that show. the 17th episode of the third season of the CBS police procedural drama Blue Bloods. She signed on to Damages in a recurring role. She guest starred in the episode "Identity Crisis" in the first season of Person of Interest, and appeared in Californication. She also appears on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 18 episode "Motherly Love".
Film
Wynter's first movie was Species II as the fiancée of the infected astronaut Patrick Ross. Wynter appeared in The 6th Day alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lost Souls with Winona Ryder as well as numerous independent movies such as Shooting Livien. Her Australian feature film debut Three Dollars was released in 2005. She was also cast as Daisy Adair in Dead Like Me: Life After Death, the straight-to-DVD movie version of Showtime TV series Dead Like Me, replacing Laura Harris who had played her sister on 24.
Australian director Bruce Beresford cast Wynter as the lead in Bride of the Wind, his ambitious 2001 biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (and, after Mahler's death, of architect Walter Gropius and subsequently of writer Franz Werfel).
Personal life
On 20 August 2005, Wynter married Details magazine editor-in-chief Dan Peres in Sydney. The couple have three children. After struggling with infertility, her first son was born in 2008. After two attempts at IVF and a miscarriage, Wynter gave birth to twin boys in 2011. Following the birth of the twins, Wynter developed postpartum psychosis which took several years for her to recover from. Wynter and Peres divorced in 2014.