Sara Sidle
played by Jorja Fox
CSI Level: three
Height: 5'8
Weight: 107 lbs
Place of Birth: Tamales Bay, CA
Date of Birth: September 16, 1971
Education: B.S. in Physics, Harvard
Special Skills: Materials and element analysis
Martial Status: Single
Previous Employment: Attended Graduate School in Theoretical Physics. Worked in San Francisco Coroner's Office for five years, then transferred to the San Francisco crime lab before being contacted by Gil Grissom to come to Las Vegas.
Bio: Sara was born and raised an hour and a half outside of San Francisco in Tamales Bay. An only-child of ex-hippies running a B and B, Sara always needed a bigger stage. Everything about her as a child was outsized. Her intelligence, her energy, her curiosity. And unlike her parents, Sara always maintained perfect self-discipline. Growing up, the roles were reversed for Sara and her parents. They kept telling her to take it easy and she kept coming up with business models for how they could take their B and B public and then franchise the brand.
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. Sara was a perfect example why great athlets make rotten coaches. Things come so easy to them that they can't understand why everyone else doesn't perform to their level.
At eighteen, Sara found a place where she could be at home.
She went to Harvard and anjoyed four of the best years of her life. he took as many classes as she could. And she finally dated. Not well, but at least she tried.
Like any tragic figure worth their salt, Sara has a single flaw: people. She can solve any problem except for the problem of other people and how she's supposed to relate to them. So she hides in the job. She pursues her career rigorously, perhaps more so than any other of the CSIs. Partly because she's still rebelling against her parent's "lax" approach to social obligations, and partly because she's afraid of what she'd find out about herself if she ever slowed down.