27 Facts About Sara Sidle

Sara Sidle is a fictional character portrayed by actress Jorja Fox on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and its sequel, CSI: Vegas.

Sara Sidle recurred throughout the ninth and tenth seasons of the series and headlined Immortality alongside Ted Danson.

Sara Sidle returned in the sequel CSI: Vegas for its first season.

Sara Sidle was born on September 16,1971, in Tomales Bay, an hour and a half north of San Francisco.

Sara Sidle's father was an abusive alcoholic and was killed by Sidle's schizophrenic mother in 1984.

Sara Sidle attended Harvard on a scholarship, moving on to graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley.

Sara Sidle went to Las Vegas and helped resolve some Internal Affairs problems within the CSIs while providing a replacement for Holly Gribbs, who had been shot.

In Season 8, Sara Sidle briefly changed from nights to swing shifts.

Sara Sidle has a soft spot for animals, and became a vegetarian after she saw Grissom conduct an experiment on a dead pig.

Sara Sidle's hobbies are all work-related ; and she claims to prefer working with corpses over live people.

Also, the fact that Grissom decided to promote Nick Stokes instead of Sara Sidle, did not help.

Season Four concludes with Sara Sidle being stopped by a traffic cop.

Sara Sidle arrives at the station to bring her home, and finally seems to notice her emotional state.

Sara Sidle then opens up to him and reveals her family story; it is during this season that she apparently starts bonding with Grissom.

Sara Sidle appeared again in the final scene of the tenth episode of season nine when she appears to be working on a research team in Costa Rica, where Grissom joins her after leaving CSI.

Sara Sidle is brought back by Under-Sheriff Ecklie to aid the lab, which has undergone staffing cuts as a result of Warrick's death and the resignation of his replacement, Riley Adams.

Adams was revealed to have resigned as a result of Catherine's poor management and lack of teamwork; when Catherine reveals this to Sara Sidle, she reminds Catherine that Grissom had Catherine as a number two, prompting the promotion of Nick Stokes to Assistant Supervisor.

Sara Sidle was involved in several of her cases, but they later broke up after she found out Hank had a longtime girlfriend.

In season four, Grissom's true feelings were revealed in "Butterflied", an episode that centers entirely around Grissom exploring his attraction to Sara Sidle when confronted with a dead woman who bore a striking resemblance to her.

Sara Sidle refused to fire her and had her working with him in almost every episode from season six and season seven.

Sara Sidle then sees Grissom, who removes his backpack and walks into Sara Sidle's arms and greets her with a passionate kiss.

In "The Two Mrs Grissoms", Sara Sidle attends a party for a school for the deaf.

Sara Sidle then gets a call from Grissom during a Taiko drum performance.

Sara Sidle then meets Grissom's mother, Betty, and two deaf professors, one of whom ends up dead in a car explosion.

William Petersen has said that what Grissom loves about Sara Sidle is her tenacity.

Sara Sidle has gained an extensive fan base throughout the years.

Grissom and Sara Sidle's relationship has been the subject of intense debate in the press and on-line forums, between fans of the romantic relationship and those who believe the romance detracts from what was once a show devoted mainly to mysteries and a forensics laboratory.