Biography
American actress Mia Sara started out in TV commercials and in a brief recurring role on the daytime soaper
All My Children. Her first film, lensed in England, was 1985's
Legend, in which she played a fairy tale ingenue opposite
Tom Cruise. Few of her later films are worthy of mention, though she was effectively cast as
Matthew Broderick's girlfriend and prankish co-conspirator in
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). Banking on her slight resemblance to actress
Merle Oberon, Sara adequately filled the role of the Oberon counterpart in the 1987 TV movie
Queenie. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide