Sarah Solemani

Biography

Sarah Solemani is an English actress, writer and activist, best known for starring in the BAFTA winning sitcom Him & Her, playing Renee Zellweger’s best friend ‘Miranda’ in Working Title’s Bridget Jones’s Baby, for which she was nominated for an Evening Standard Best Actress Award. 

Solemani was born in the London Borough of Camden and grew up in Crouch End. Her father is a Persian Jewish mathematics lecturer (now retired).

After passing her A levels at the Henrietta Barnett School, she took a gap year before reading Social and Political Sciences (now the Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos) at New Hall, Cambridge and graduating with an MA (Hons).

At Cambridge, she joined the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club and became social secretary during her first year and then vice president. She went down in Footlights history for writing the biggest all-female comedy sketch ever performed on a Footlights stage, writing twenty five female students into her sketch ‘Brawl’.

Solemani married Daniel E. Ingram, a sustainable investment expert specializing in climate change in Petah Tikva, Israel, on 3 June 2012.