Sarah Pia Anderson is an English born television and theatre director. Her career in the theatre included work for the Royal National Theatre: Rosmersholm, the Royal Shakespeare Company: Mary and Lizzie and The Abbey Theatre: Carthaginians. Her early television work included Prime Suspect 4: Inner Circles, starring Helen Mirren. She has worked mainly in the United States since the mid-1990s, directing episodes of Dark Angel, Gilmore Girls, Dead Like Me, Grey's Anatomy, Veronica Mars and other series. In 2011, she directed the opening episodes of Scott & Bailey produced by RED Production Company for ITV1. She is currently a professor in the Cinema and Technocultural Studies Program at University of California, Davis. 

July 19th, 1952 in St Albans (Age 72)