Sarah Wynter (born 15 February 1973) Wynter profile, movies2.nytimes.com; accessed 13 January 2016. is an Australian actress, known for her roles on American television – such as Kate Warner on the television drama 24, as Beth on Windfall, and as Keitha on Flight of the Conchords.
Her grandmother, Joy Cummings, was the Lord Mayor of Newcastle – Australia's first female Lord Mayor. In 1984, her father killed his second wife and Sarah's half-sister before killing himself.
A few years later, she was recognised by SAG again, as part of the second-season cast of 24 when it earned a SAG Award nomination as Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Wynter played Kate Warner and appeared in all 24 episodes plus the third-season premiere, and she provided her voice for . She had a recurring role in The Dead Zone and starred in the series Windfall in 2006.
In 2009, Sarah appeared in "Unnatural Love", an episode of the second season of Flight of the Conchords as "Keitha", the Australian girlfriend of Jemaine. In 2013 she played the role of Whitney Robshaw in "Protest Too Much" Blue Bloods ("Protest Too Much"), imdb.com; accessed 13 January 2016. the 17th episode of the third season of the CBS police procedural drama Blue Bloods. She signed on to Damages in a recurring role. She guest starred in the episode "Identity Crisis" in the first season of Person of Interest, and appeared in Californication. She also appears on Season 18 episode "Motherly Love".
Australian director Bruce Beresford cast Wynter as the lead in Bride of the Wind, his ambitious 2001 biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (and, after Mahler's death, of architect Walter Gropius and subsequently of writer Franz Werfel).
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