---
name: "Sara Driver"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sara-driver"
fi1m_id: "sara-driver"
imdb_id: "nm0238138"
tmdb_id: 6403
wikidata_id: "Q7421614"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "15 December 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T23:39:25.893069+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Sara Driver

## Identity

Sara Driver

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sara-driver
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sara-driver
- **IMDb ID:** nm0238138
- **TMDB ID:** 6403
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7421614
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Driver, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7421614, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0238138/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6403

Writer. Born 15 December 1955 in Westfield, New Jersey, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 15 December 1955, Westfield, New Jersey, USA
- **Active:** 1984–2016
- **Also known as:** Sara Miller Driver
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 writing
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 82 (1), 1990s 80 (1), 2010s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Driver, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7421614, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0238138/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6403

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Stranger Than Paradise*](https://film.one/film/stranger-than-paradise.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Sara Driver is an American independent filmmaker and actress. Born Sara Miller Driver on 15 December 1955 in Westfield, New Jersey, she studied theatre and classics before earning an MFA in film from New York University.

She gained early recognition as producer of Jim Jarmusch's *Permanent Vacation* (1980) and *Stranger Than Paradise* (1984), in which she also appeared as the Girl with Hat. Driver has directed the features *Sleepwalk* (1986) and *When Pigs Fly* (1993), the short *You Are Not I* (1981), and the documentary *Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat* (2017). She has contributed as a script consultant or story consultant on several Jarmusch films, including *Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai* (1999) and *Broken Flowers* (2005).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *Stranger Than Paradise* (1984), Fi1m 82, as Girl with Hat — [page](https://film.one/film/stranger-than-paradise.md)

### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these

- *Paterson* (2016), Fi1m 84, Script Consultant, Consulting Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/paterson.md)
- *Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai* (1999), Fi1m 80, Story Consultant — [page](https://film.one/film/ghost-dog-the-way-of-the-samurai.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Adios* (2025), Actor
- *Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver* (2021), Writer
- *The Dead Don't Die* (2019), as Female Coffee Zombie · Creative Consultant
- *Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat* (2018), Director
- *Paterson* (2016), Script Consultant, Consulting Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/paterson.md)
- *Only Lovers Left Alive* (2013), Thanks — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/only-lovers-left-alive.md)
- *Gold Eye Ball* (2008), Writer, Director
- *Broken Flowers* (2005), Idea, Script Consultant
- *Some Days in January, 1984* (2001), Actor
- *Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai* (1999), Story Consultant — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/ghost-dog-the-way-of-the-samurai.md)
- *Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made* (1994), as Continuity
- *The Bowery* (1994), Director
- *When Pigs Fly* (1993), Director, Story
- *Strummer* (1993), Director
- *Figaro Story* (1993), as Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")
- *Keep It for Yourself* (1991), as Sam
- *Bloodhounds of Broadway* (1989), as Yvette
- *Mystery Train* (1989), as Airport Clerk
- *Monsters* (1988), series, as Mom (voice) · Director
- *Sleepwalk* (1986), Director, Story, Producer, Screenplay
- *Stranger Than Paradise* (1984), as Girl with Hat · Producer, Production Manager — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/stranger-than-paradise.md)
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, as Yvette
- *You Are Not I* (1981), Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
- *Permanent Vacation* (1981), as Nurse · Production Manager, Assistant Director
- *Garden of Ashes*, Producer
- *An Odd Enchantment*, Director, Writer

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