Sarah Kathleen Rush is an American actress, best known in television for her work in the original Battlestar Galactica. She narrated and starred in the 2005 documentary The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania, produced by Patricia Heaton and directed by David Hunt, who is Heaton's husband, which won the 2006 Heartland Film Festival Award. Rush was herself crowned Coal Queen in 1972.
Rush was born on September 20, 1955, in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania and graduated from Waynesburg Central High School in Waynesburg in 1973. She is a member of the Actors Studio in Midtown Manhattan, New York, an acting student of Uta Hagen and Milton Katselas, and graduated with a BFA degree in theater summa cum laude from Pennsylvania State University. She was married to Fred Bova and they have a daughter, Amanda Grace Bova.
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Theater
Our Town directed by Gower Champion and also starring Eddie Albert
As You Like It directed by Sir Tony Richardson and also starring Stockard Channing
The Glass Menagerie directed by Lee Shallat
Toyer at the Kennedy Center directed by Sir Tony Richardson and also starring Kathleen Turner, Brad Davis, and Kevin Spacey
She Stoops to Conquer in the title role
The Belle of Amherst, a one-woman show on the life of Emily Dickinson
Alma in Summer and Smoke
Angel in When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? starring Christopher McDonald
Television
The Incredible Hulk (1978) — Young Woman (1 episode)
Dr. Strange (1978) — Nurse (1 episode)
Sword of Justice (1978) — Cathy (1 episode)
Battlestar Galactica (1978–1979) — Flight Cpl. Rigel (11 episodes)
Happy Days (1979) — Fern (1 episode) (episode "Fonzie and the She-Devils")
The Seekers (1979) — Amanda Kent
Roughecks (1980) — Carol McBride
Quincy, M.E. (1978–1980) — Trish Granby, Dr. Harriett Bowlin (3 episodes)
Modesty Blaise (1982) — Emma Woodhouse
For Love of Angela (1982) — Angela Tanner
Bret Maverick (1982) — Princess Athena (1 episode)
Tales from the Darkside (1986) — Laura Burns (1 episode)
Monty — Psychic (1 episode)
Crossroads Cafe (1996) — Anna Brashov (2 episodes)
Everybody Loves Raymond (1998) — Woman (1 episode)
Chicken Soup for the Soul (2000) — Mrs. Calloway (1 episode)
Friends (2002) — Nurse #3 (1 episode)
The Megan Mullally Show (2006) — Herself (1 episode)
Filmography
Joni (1979) — Kathy Eareckson
The Nude Bomb (1980) — Pam Krovney
Years of the Beast (1981) — Cindy
The Prodigal (1983) — Laura
Talking to Strangers (1988) — Potter
Fangs (2001) — Lois Bostwick
Max Keeble's Big Move (2001) — Ms. Lane
Destiny (2002) — Diane
Catch Me If You Can (2002) — Secretary
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania (2005) — Narrator
