Meet Chad Michael Murray’s actress wife, Sarah Roemer: the former model rose to fame after starring alongside Shia LaBeouf in Disturbia, but she’s content with her family life these days
- Roemer was scouted to be a model at 15 before switching to acting and making her debut in 2006 indie black comedy Wristcutters: A Love Story
- Shortly after meeting Murray on the set of TV series Chosen, the pair married and welcomed their son in 2015 – they’ve since added two more daughters to the household
You might not instantly recognise the name Sarah Roemer, but you probably remember her as Shia LaBeouf’s girlfriend in the 2007 thriller Disturbia.
She went on to star in more films and TV shows – and to marry Hollywood heartthrob and One Tree Hill actor Chad Michael Murray. So what do we know about the actress and what’s she up to lately?
She’s a California girl
Born on August 28, 1984 in sunny San Diego, California, Sarah Christine Roemer comes from a blend of German, English, Irish and Scottish ancestry, per IMDb. After school she moved to Los Angeles to begin her modelling career. By 17 she was gracing the pages of magazines like GQ, Cosmopolitan, Maxim, Esquire and Interview.
“When I was 15, before school in the morning, I was at a 7-Eleven drinking coffee, and the owner of my modelling agency came up to me,” she recounted in a 2007 interview with The Courier Mail. “And that’s how that happened.”
She was scouted at a coffee shop
When she was 20, her career took an unexpected turn in a yet another chance encounter at a coffee shop. “I was in LA two years ago modelling and I was at a coffee shop and my manager came up to me,” she explained to the same publication, “and that’s how I started acting”.
Roemer made her debut in the 2006 independent dark comedy Wristcutters, A Love Story. The following year, she starred as a high school cheerleader in the horror film The Grudge 2, which she admitted was surprising considering how much she disliked the sport during her school days. “I didn’t cheer in high school. I was the farthest thing from a cheerleader in high school. We made fun of cheerleaders. Everybody did! But no more. All that choreography? I couldn’t make sense of it.”