SARAH WAYNE CALLIES BIO


Actress-writer-director Sarah Wayne Callies is best known for starring in multiple hit television series. Most recently she could be seen in the NBC series Council Of Dads. Sarah become known to audiences for her portrayal of 'Sara Tancredi' in international hit Prison Break for Fox and followed that up with the even bigger hit, The Walking Dead. She then starred opposite Josh Holloway in the USA series Colony. She starred in the critically acclaimed NatGeo limited series, The Long Road Home based on the Martha Raddatz book of the same name. Sarah also recently starred in the Sundance TV/CBC limited series, Unspeakable. Sarah has taken the leap into directing having directed an episode of Unspeakable as well as an episode of the final season of Colony. As a writer, Sarah has several screenplays in development with various motion picture entities. As a film actress, Sarah has appeared in Giancarlo Esposito's This Is Your Death, starring opposite Josh Duhamel and Famke Jannsen, Warner Brothers' and Broken Road's geo-thriller, Into The Storm, Voltage Pictures' Pay The Ghost opposite Nicolas Cage, Black November opposite Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger, and she was most recently seen in 20th Century Fox's The Other Side Of The Door. Continuing her passion for storytelling, Sarah is a producer and the voice of the new science fiction, post-apocalyptic podcast Aftershock.


ABOUT AFTERSHOCK


When an earthquake levels the West Coast of the US and kills the love of Cassie's (Sarah Wayne Callies) life, she makes a promise to him to find and protect his daughter, Mckayla (Tati Gabrielle), who, prior to the quake, ran away in anger, blaming Cassie for breaking up her parents' marriage. However, the earthquake was so powerful it caused a giant island to rise 26 miles off the coast. Cassie discovers McKayla is on the island and, with the help of seemingly good Samaritan Wayne Sharp (David Harbour), they navigate through the chaotic aftermath of Los Angeles to the island. Others have also made their way to the island, leaving behind their old lives in hopes of starting something new. As tribalism sets in and boundaries are drawn, the islanders will discover something else has risen with the island, something that threatens them all. Told from the perspective of Cassie and Wayne's interrogation onboard a Naval cruiser three weeks later by Captain Mark Dover (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), we will discover the story of what happened on the island, why Cassie and Wayne are the only survivors, and whatever killed everyone on the island is now starting manifest itself on the ship.

Aftershock is a fast-paced thriller about a massive earthquake that destroys the West Coast, causing a mysterious island to rise up from the Pacific - with Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead), David Harbour (Stranger Things), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead), and Tati Gabrielle (The 100).


https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-aftershock-83996090/