Special SpringCon Guest!

Hello, Everyone!

We are pleased and proud to announce a special surprise guest that will be attending the 2010 SpringCon Comic Book Celebration!

Sarah Douglas ( www.sarah-douglas.com ) will be in the house! Sponsored by Krypton Comics ( www.kryptoncomicsomaha.com ) & Spud’s Emporium of
Comics and Games ( www.spudsemporium.com ), Sarah is making her debut appearance!

Her first screen appearance was in the 1973 sci-fi film, The Final Programme, with Jon Finch. The film was based on the book by Michael Moorcock and is a film that Sarah credits as the beginning of a “quite a career in the sci-fi, fantasy mould.”

Soon after this, Sarah’s screen career began to flourish with appearances in top television shows, Space:1999, Return Of The Saint and Thundercloud. Next came more films, such as the controversial The Brute, with Julian Glover, and cult-favourite The People That Time Forgot, maintaining her reputation as the “good girl who was always a bit naughty on the side.” During the shooting of The People That Time Forgot, Sarah was invited to audition for a role that would ultimately take her career to new heights, and mark the turning point.

The casting of as Hollywood’s “Queen Of Mean,” in the role of the super vixen villain Ursa in the big-budget movies, Superman and Superman II, to be filmed concurrently was a brilliant decision by director Richard Donner. Beating over 600 actresses to the part, Sarah was to find herself “flying” at the end of a wire for the next three years as the movies were extensively filmed and reshot by two different directors, Richard Donner and Richard Lester.

After Superman and the world tour she undertook to promote Superman II, Sarah went to America. There, moments before she was to return to the UK, she received a phone call that would make her a household name and face to American television audiences. Sarah was asked to join the cast of the 1980’s TV soap, Falcon Crest, portraying the glamorous, fabulous but scheming Pamela Lynch.

Over the next two decades, Sarah continued to play roles in what she self-referentially styles as “evil, wicked Queens..with different hats on,” finding herself co-starring with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Tom Selleck, Heather Locklear and Pierce Brosnan in various projects ranging from hits shows such as Magnum PI, Stargate, Remington Steele and fantasy films Conan The Destroyer and Solarbabies. Sarah is continually approached by publishing houses to write her autobiography, however she has chosen to use her experiences as the framework for a novel set in the world of the sci-fi genre and Hollywood glitterati. In addition to her writing, Sarah maintains her career of acting, voiceover work, teaching and accepting invitations to appear at speaking events. Whenever opportunity allows, Sarah likes to attend various conventions and signings around the world in order to meet her fans, of which she is delighted to have many.

In her personal time, Sarah visits her beautiful and beloved Stratford Upon Avon and her family. Her passion for gardening, creating a piece of England’s “green and pleasant land” in the heart of the Hollywood Hills keeps this “Ursa’s” high flying feet on the ground.

In addition, Sarah will be hosting a very special event at SpringCon:

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