BIOGRAPHY
Sandra Hart author, actress and motivational speaker began her television career when she auditioned for Bert Claster, the creator of Romper Room, a national syndicated television program for children, and was hired to host the award-winning show. Utilizing her journalistic skills with her on-camera experience she continued her career first as a news anchor and later as morning talk show host in the Pittsburgh market for a CBS affiliate.
Choosing to relocate to the East Coast with her husband and children, Ms. Hart took on the duties of Vice President of National Marketing and Promotion for Leisure Technology and stayed with that firm until its relocation to Los Angeles. During her tenure with LTC, she produced and anchored the successful television special on aging, Freedom Years, with Hugh Downes, Senator Lowell Weichert and Dr. Art Ulene and traveled the country doing promotions and numerous television appearances on behalf of the company. Ms Hart was also the C.E.O of the related Foundation For Freedom Years.
As president of her own company, Artisan Television Productions, in the years following her work with LTC, she produced and anchored the national syndicated programs, The Money Show and Wall Street Profile, interviewing top well-known personalities in all fields of business, politics and entertainment.
In the mid 90’s with the encouragement of her family, Ms. Hart came back in front of the camera, only this time to pursue her childhood dream of acting.
In addition to her recent television credits; Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, The Wright Verdicts, American Movie Channel Turtleback Productions, Loving, NYPD Blue and Home Shopping Network spokesperson, Ms. Hart has appeared in 19 feature films. Sandra has had the pleasure of working with many directors, including Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Babet Schroeder and Barry Sonnenfeld.
In her New York theater work, Ms. Hart is pleased to have been a part of The New Playwrights Festival, playing two full seasons as the leads in two well-received plays, Dayporch At East Jesus and The Golden Boots at the William Redfield Theater on 46th Street in New York. For these performances Ms. Hart received excellent reviews from the New York critics, who compared her to “a young Angela Lansbury.”
A Girl With Moonlight In Her Eyes, a one-woman narrative about her life, has received excellent reviews as a work-in-progress and her latest book, Behind The Magic Mirror, her true story that is "a compassionate kaliedoscope of events of a life as it is." Janice Leiberman, NBC-TV was highly reviewed.
Ms. Hart is a member of the National Leadership Council for The National Alliance For Research on Schizophrenia and Associated Disorders along with such persons as Hume Cronyn, Joanne Woodward, James Woods, Mike Wallace, Tony Randall, and Rosalynn Carter. She is a member of SAG, AFTRA, EQUITY and the Women’s Creative Coalition. She is also a recipient of the N. Edward Worstall Memorial Award for excellence in journalism.
