Sarah Dingle

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Do-gooder
Full Name	Sarah Sugden Jr.
Alias(es)	Sarah Little monster (by Eric Pollard)
Origin	Emmerdale
Occupation	Resident in Emmerdale
Powers / Skills	High intelligence Charisma
Hobby	Spending quality time with her family
Goals	Depending on her own story (ongoing)
Family	The Dingle Family
Friends / Allies	Depending on her story
Enemies	Depending on her story
Type of Hero	Protective Heroine

Sarah Dingle, more commonly known as Sarah Sugden Jr. in her birth name, is a fictional character and major protagonist of the British soap opera Emmerdale. She started out as a supporting character from June 2005 to January 2016 before later becoming one of the show's central protagonists from January 2017 onwards.

The character is portrayed by Katie Hill after having previously been played by Sophia Amber Moore.

Personality

Strong, brave, kind, happy.

Biography

Sarah Sugden Jr. was born on 6th June 2005, conceived by teenage schoolgirl Debbie Dingle and her boyfriend Andy Sugden. She was named after Andy's late adoptive mother Sarah Sugden.

Over the following years, Sarah grew up with her parents as they fought for custody before having an on-off relationship that often ended in disaster. Sarah soon warmed up to her grandparents Cain and Charity through their parenthood with Debbie, whereas neither of Andy's biological parents were around to help and his adoptive father Jack Sugden had died from a heart attack back in February 2009. Soon enough Sarah became uniquely sick and her life was at stake on multiple occasions. This mostly happened during Debbie's turbulent relationship with serial killer Cameron Murray, before she later married her husband Pete Barton and then had an affair with his brother Ross that led to Debbie leaving the village with Sarah. As such, Sarah had a brother named Jack who was born on October 2012 during the show's 40th anniversary special.

In January 2017, Debbie and Sarah returned to the village. It then transpired that Sarah had cancer and needed treatment for her heart transplant. By then, Sarah had also much more character development that saw her bond closely with Cain's estranged mother Faith Dingle. This soon escalated when Sarah fell out with Debbie over her romance with Joe Tate after he originally planned revenge against her family, before later turning on Debbie after finding out that she was responsible for the events in which Ross became the victim of an acid attack.

Trivia

• The character was played by three infant actors, consisting of Lily-May Bartley and Lucy Warren in the year 2005 before Amber Child-Cavill briefly took over from 2006-2007 prior to Sophia's portrayal of the character taking place in the latter year.