Sara: I love to go dancing-salsa, hip-hop, disco. Any kind of music that makes me want to move. It's a great release.
Sara: I'm glad to be a role model, but beyond that I'm a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.
Sara: (when being asked about whether she liked Grey's Anatomy before she starred on it) Oh, yes! As a Latin person, I was really proud to see the ethnic people on the show. I thought, Wow, there are no color limits. Nobody’s making comments about how there are African-Americans on the show and an Asian on the show. However, I did think, Where’s the Latin person?
Sara: (after seeing herself on an advertisement) For one of the first times, I'm looking at myself going, 'Yeah, I'm OK with that'.
In 2004 in the season finale of the hit television show NYPD blue Sara guest starred as Irma Leona.
Sara appeared in a special one-day Broadway performance of Dreamgirls on September 24, 2001.
Sara won the 2005 Outer Critic's Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for Monty Python's Spamalot.
After seeing her in Spamalot, ABC were so impressed they gave Sara the chance to choose one of their shows she would like to be cast in. She, of course, chose Grey's Anatomy.
She was the second actress to become a regular on Grey's Anatomy after only supposed to be sticking around for a few episodes. The first one being Kate Walsh (Addison Forbes-Montgomery).
Sara has guest starred on Law & Order: SVU twice as two completely different people.
After a long recurring role on Grey's Anatomy, she was offered a place as a series regular when the third season opened.
She attended the same school as Christopher Reeve, Bebe Neuwrith, Jamie Foxx, and Robin Williams.
Joint winner of "Special Civil Rights Award" with Chris Sieber at the 2005 Gay Pride Awards.
Sara was part of the ensemble in the 2001 big-screen remake of Broadway play Chicago.
She voices the main charcter in PS1 game "Um Jammer Lammy". She reprised her role in 2001 when the sequal, "PaRappa the Rapper 2", came out.
Sara recieved an Outer Critics Circle award for The Capeman.
She has won two Tony Awards for her portrayal of The Lady in the Lake in Monty Python's Spamalot.
She starred in You've Got Mail as Rose, Zabar's cashier.
Sara made her Broadway debut as Wahzinak in Paul Simon's The Capeman.
Her height is 5'9".
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