Mia Sarapoccielo

This blog entry is another of my Babe-A-Licious Awards.

From time to time, I am reminded that certain less-than-well-known celebrities and near celebrities deserve some recognition.

Yesterday, I surfed by a twenty year old movie on cable called Legend (1985) starring little Tommy Cruise. It was the “exciting” finale where our hero ofts a fairy tale type bad guy with horns and lots of prosethetic makeup...resembling the big “D”. Mr’ Cruise’s character was also saving a fairy tale princess whom the horned antogonist had kidnapped and dragged to his underworld lair. Upon closer scrutiny, the young vixen he was attempting to save closely resembled Sloane Peterson. She was wearing a lot of “period” makeup and a flowing chiffon dress, so realizing that this actress was also Matthew Broderick’s co-star in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) was no easy task. Yes...it was Mia Sara.

Mia has been around for a number of years and has done a few movies of note, one of which was Ferris...as Sloane Peterson, Bueller’s pretty high school girlfriend. So I googled her!

She is a very appealing actress, now nearing her 40’s and married to Jason Connery, son of Sean. Her filmography includes a lot of TV (CSI:NY & Nightmares and Dreamscapes) and quite a few films, Ferris being the most notable. But she also starred as Claude VanDamme’s wife in the movie Timecop (1996) where I was also reminded of how Babe-A-Licious Mia is. I think she was romping around in a mini-skirt and knee-high boots if I’m not mistaken (I’m a sucker for that getup).

Her real last name is Sarapoccielo. It’s Mia Sara...very Babe-A-Licious...and much more than just Ferris Bueller’s girlfriend.