Mia Sara

Mia Sara, real name Mia Sarapochiello, is a known actress in the ’80s. She rose to fame for her role as Princess Lili in Ridley Scott’s 1985 fairy-tale film Legend. Playing the role of Ferris Bueller’s girlfriend, Sloane Peterson, in the 1986 blockbuster film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off made her even more popular. In March 1996, she married A-list actor Jason Connery, son of Sean Connery, with whom she performed in Bullet to Beijing. In June 1997, they had a son, Dashiell Quinn Connery.

The couple divorced in 2002. She had a son with him named Dashiell Connery, a fine young man who got the looks of his parents and is already following his mother and father’s Hollywood footsteps. She is currently married to Brian Henson, oldest son of Muppets creator Jim Henson. Sara had acted in Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story, directed by Henson. They have one daughter, Amelia Jane Henson, born in 2005.

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