Young Irish star lands role in love story set against background of Holocaust

DUBLIN actress Sarah Bolger has been signed up to star in a new Hollywood movie based on an extraordinary love story which began at a Nazi concentration camp.

The 16-year-old In America star will play the child saviour of a Holocaust survivor in the upcoming movie, The Fence.

The Irish child star will be acting alongside Nanny McPhee actor, Thomas Sangster and Richard Dreyfuss in the movie which is expected to start shooting on location in Germany, in the summer.

A spokesman for the production company, Atlantic Overseas Pictures, confirmed the Dublin girl is set to star in the movie.

He said: “We are due to start filming in the summer. It is an amazing story.”

The movie is based on the true story of concentration camp survivor Herman Rosenblat, and is set during the Holocaust. It follows Mr Rosenblat from his teen years, when he falls for a girl outside the camp, to his reunion with his love years after the war.

The Dublin actress will be playing the beautiful young girl, Roma, who captivates Herman and keeps him alive by tossing him bread and apples from outside the fence. The couple, who now live in New York, amazingly met up again in America on a blind date and are still happily married after surviving the Nazi horror.

The Irish star and her younger sister Emma became overnight sensations after critically acclaimed performances in Jim Sheridan’s In America, in 2002.

They have had a string of big movie roles since the Oscar-nominated movie.

Sarah, who has had a prolific acting career since their award-winning movie, beat off thousands to land the part of Sabina in the Stormbreaker film about a teenage super-spy.

Although the actress landed her first film role when she was just eight years old, when she was signed on to star in A Love Divided alongside Orla Brady and Liam Cunningham.

She also starred as Annie in Tara Road alongside Brenda Fricker and Andie McDowell.

The talented young actress had recently wrapped filming on the fantasy film, The Spiderwick Chronicles, due out next year. Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, and sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

The movie, which also starred Charlie and the Chocolate Factory actor Freddie Highmore and Nick Nolte, is due out next year.