Sara Paxton Movies
Character actress
Sara Paxton debuted on-camera in her mid-teens, in the early 2000s. With bleached-blonde hair and steel-blue eyes that radiated a healthy middle-American appeal,
Paxton seemed tailor-made for stardom and drew audience attention within an unsurprisingly brief period of time. However, she also maintained a somewhat low profile for the first several years, in terms of choice of material and narrow genre focus.
Paxton premiered cinematically in 2001, with a small role in the
Neal Israel-directed, made-for-television family comedy
Hounded, and followed it up with similar programmers, such as the antiseptic farces
Sleepover (2004),
Return to Halloweentown (2006), and
Aquamarine (2006).
Paxton ascended to much higher billing (and expanded into slightly edgier material) with a plum role in the
Amanda Bynes teen comedy
Sydney White (2007), about a young sorority pledge who makes an aggressive attempt to rebuild the collegiate social hierarchy. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide