Throughout versatile actress Sarah Paulson’s career, she took on a varied litany of big and small screen roles which traversed all time periods and genres – from the frontiers of America’s Old West on “Deadwood” to the backstage corridors of contemporary late-night television in her star-making role on “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.” Definitely paying her dues on a number of short-lived TV series and highly anticipated films which fell flat, this stage-savvy performer took the slow and steady road to success.

Born Dec. 17, 1975, Paulson spent the first five years of life in her birthplace of