Sarah Jurgens

Lou Jurgens (born Sarah Louise Jurgens), is a British-born Canadian actor, producer, casting director, model, photographer, and multimedia artist. Known mainly for their acting work in film and television, Jurgens is also the co-founder of The Blood Projects, a Canadian theatre company through which Jurgens and co-founder Sasha Singer-Wilson have produced a number of projects including Little Tongues, This Is It, and Inside.

Early life and education Lou Jurgens was born in Epsom, England to South African-British parents Elizabeth Clare Jurgens and Paul Cloete Jurgens. The family moved to Cape Town, South Africa, and later to Tumbler Ridge, a small coal-mining town in northern British Columbia when Lou was still a child, later relocating to the Lower Mainland, on the coast, where the young Jurgens discovered acting in high school, performing in musicals. The most challenging aspect of their training as an actor was maintaining perspective: "Sometimes it's easy to forget what's going on in the rest of the world when ... submerged in such an intensive training", The act was described by one critic as "character-driven, engaging on an emotional level, sometimes holding-a-mirror-up".

In their graduation year (2009), Jurgens co-founded The Blood Projects theatrical production company with their friend and fellow alumna Sasha Singer-Wilson after the unions affiliated with the university went on strike, which led to the cancelling of many classes and shows: "It completely altered our final year ... We really felt the loss of that creative time, so we decided we were going to create our own work."

After graduating, Jurgens spent time in London, England, doing theatre workshops who plays Julie, the girlfriend of Rob Wells, "driven mad by jealousy with an obsession over an ex-punk rock star". a film by Christoph Waltz which premiered on 27 April 2019.

Short films In 2010, Jurgens took their clowning double act and a camera crew to Toronto's Financial District. Rosie & Loulou: Quest for Love (2011) is a short docufiction film directed by Elli Weisbaum which follows the pair as they talk about love and offer roses to passersby.

Jurgens worked with Swansea-based Canadian director Teryl Brouillette on a pair of short narrative films, Work (2016), a docudrama, and A Bridge and a Door.

Television and web series Jurgens' first television role was Gaia, a guest part on Lost Girl in 2011, followed by another guest role as Karina Vost on Covert Affairs in 2012.

Videos, modeling, and voice acting In 2013, Jurgens starred in the Dove and Gun music video Let Go of the Future, The video showcased their ability "to communicate a character's story and exude deep, soulful emotion without ever having to say a word." Jurgens is known to have appeared in five commercial videos and has done modelling work since at least 2010.

Jurgens provided one of the additional voices in the 2015 video game Assassin's Creed Syndicate.

Toronto stage The Blood Projects The Blood Projects differs from other companies in that the focus is on original works.

The company produced Singer-Wilson's first full-length play, Little Tongues, in a 35-seat downtown Toronto loft: "When scenes happened in the kitchen ... the actors were really preparing food and the audience could smell the dinner being made. It engaged with the audience on an intimate, sensory level." The company also produced Singer-Wilson's Brief Sketches (2014). staged entirely in bed, in which Jurgens dazzled audiences in the leading role of Eve. explored the public presentation and private experience of self, the crew staging three shows per night, only allowing five audience members inside for each show, audience members only given the location of the apartment where the performance was staged the evening before the show. Jurgens sought to "discover and transform the relationship between self and body" through "photography, audio recordings and the written word," posing the question, "What is your relationship with your body?" and inviting the individual to become the author of their own story.

Television and web series Lost Girl: "Something Wicked This Fae Comes" (2011) • Gaia Covert Affairs: "Wishful Beginnings" (2012)

Videos and voice acting Let Go of the Future (2013) • Woman Girls Gone Nashville (2014) • Herself (model) Assassin's Creed Syndicate (2015) • (video game; voice)

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