Jorja Fox

With a variety of memorable roles filling up her resume, it would not be cliché for one to hum a few bars of "Jorja On My Mind."  Actress Jorja Fox can be seen on the top-rated series on television, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation for CBS.  She starred for eight seasons as Sara Sidle, a member of the autopsy team who heads-up the gritty drama series that is executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.  Fox repeatedly returned to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation for episodes in Seasons 9, 10 and 11 and she is back a series regular in Season 12.   CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was nominated three times for a Primetime Emmy Award for "Best Drama Series," three times for "Outstanding Drama Series" at the Golden Globes and won the 2005 SAG Award for “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.”    
 
No stranger to television, she previously starred on NBC's top-rated series ER as 'Dr. Maggie Doyle' prior to her role as 'Secret Service Agent Gina Toscano' on Aaron Sorkin's Emmy Award-winning drama The West Wing.  Additional credits include guest turns on Law and Order and the historic "coming out" episode of Ellen. Fox was last seen in a guest star role on Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva.
 
A devoted wildlife advocate, Fox has recently produced the documentary film How I Became an Elephant.  The film is about one young girl’s mission to save the elephants.  She travels to South East Asia to work with her hero The Elephant Lady and shows how everyone can make a difference  
 
Fox has also managed to carve out some impressive film credits that include a Sundance Film Festival favorite, Memento, in which she portrays the murdered wife of lead Guy Pearce.  This marks Fox's third foray into Sundance.  She has previously made the trip in conjunction with her roles as sister to Clea Duvall in the quirky comedy How to Make the Cruelest Month and as the town gossip in The Kill-Off which was based on the book by renowned author Jim Thompson (The Grifters).  More recent feature credits include the comedy Forever Fabulous with Jean Smart and Down with the Joneses opposite Joshua Leonard (The Blair Witch Project).
 
Having appeared in numerous stage productions, Fox continues to work tirelessly in conjunction with the theater company she co-founded, Honeypot Productions.  Honeypot is an independent theater company in Los Angeles, which so far has mounted six original productions, of which she has starred in four, written three and directed one
 
Born in New York City, Fox moved to the small coastal town of Melbourne Beach, FL with her French Canadian parents.  Upon completion of high school, she moved back to New York to pursue her career in acting.  Now residing in Los Angeles, Fox enjoys traveling, playing guitar, singing and has an affinity for the ocean which dates back to her childhood.

Sara Sidle

Sara Sidle was born and raised an hour and half outside San Francisco on Tamales Bay. An only child of ex-hippies running a bed and breakfast, Sara always needed a bigger stage. Everything about her as a child was outsized: her intelligence, her energy, her curiosity. Sara was pretty much all-or-nothing in high school, and as talented as she was, grace didn’t come with the package. The other kids resented her and she did nothing to ease the resentment. 
 
At eighteen, Sara found a place where she could be at home. She went to Harvard and enjoyed four of the best years of her life. She took as many classes as she could. She went to as many parties as she could. And she finally dated. Not well, but at least she tried. She attended graduate school in theoretical physics before realizing that she was too frenetic for a life of scholarly contemplation. One year later, she got a job in the San Francisco coroner’s office and spent five years there gaining an unofficial education in forensic science. After that, she transferred to the San Francisco crime lab before being contacted by Grissom, who asked her to come to Las Vegas. 
 
Like any tragic figure worth her salt, Sara has a single flaw: people. She can solve any problem except the problem of other people and how she’s supposed to relate to them. As a result, she hides in her job. She pursues her career rigorously, perhaps more so than any of the other CSIs, partly because she’s still rebelling against her parents’ casual approach to social obligations and partly because she’s afraid of what she’d find out about herself if she ever slowed down. Sara confronts her fears of intimacy in season 6 when her romantic relationship with Grissom is released to the audience.  In season 8, Sara is submerged into depression after her abduction in the season 7 finale.  Although she leaves her CSI career behind, she and Grissom remain in touch until they are reunited in season 9. As a CSI, Sara’s specialty is materials and element analysis.