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| first = October 13, 2000<br>(1x02, "Cool Change")
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| data21 = CSI Level III<br>Freelance Consultant<br>Director of the Las Vegas Crime Lab<br>Material and Elements Specialist
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| data23 = 2000–2015, 2021–
| lbl24 = Seasons
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'''Sara Sidle''' is a ] portrayed by actress ] on the CBS crime drama '']'' and its sequel, '']''. Sidle is a ] and one of the core characters of the show, which revolves around a ] team in ], that investigates cases in and around ]. Fox appeared in both the first eight seasons and the final five seasons of the original show as a series regular. She also recurred throughout the ninth and tenth seasons of the series and headlined ''Immortality'' alongside ]. She will return in the sequel ''CSI: Vegas''.

==Appearances==
=== Original Tenure ===
In each of the original series' first seven seasons, Fox appeared in all but one episode, and then appeared in the first seven episodes of the eighth season before departing the main cast.

=== Guest star ===
During her absence from the main cast, Fox guest starred in twenty episodes.

=== Return ===
Upon rejoining the regular cast in the series' eleventh season, Fox once again appeared in most episodes, including the series finale. She will return in the sequel ''CSI: Vegas''.

==Fictional character biography==
Sidle was born on September 16, 1971, in ]<!-- NOTE1: Yes, Tamales. The REAL city is Tomales, but the bio from CBS spells it with an A. -->, an hour and a half north of ]. Her father was an abusive alcoholic and was killed by Sidle's ] mother in 1984. Afterward, she spent time in the ], which didn't keep her from graduating from high school as ] at age 16.<ref>Marrinan and Parker (2006), p. 59</ref> She attended ] on a scholarship, moving on to ] at the ]. While at Berkeley, she started a work-study position at the San Francisco ]'s Office, where she would also audit lectures to keep up with new developments; it was at one of these that she met ].<ref> Retrieved on 2007-10-21.</ref>

Some time later, while she was working in San Francisco, Grissom called her because he needed someone outside the ] team. Sidle went to Las Vegas and helped resolve some ] problems within the CSIs while also providing a replacement for ], who had been shot.<ref>"Cool Change". ] (writer) & ] (director). ''CSI''. ]. 2000-10-13. Season 1 Ep. 2.</ref> Some episodes later, she became a permanent member of the night shift as a CSI Level 3 at the LVPD Criminalistics Bureau, specialising in materials and element analysis. In ], Sidle briefly changed from nights to swing shifts. In the Season 10 premiere, it is revealed she is married to Grissom. In Season 13, Episode 15, she reveals that Grissom had split up with her. However in series finale "]", she and Grissom are reunited.

==Character development==
Perhaps because of her traumatic childhood, Sidle has demonstrated compassion and empathy for victims of domestic violence, and fury against their abusers.<ref>Marrinan and Parker (2006), p. 60</ref> She also has a soft spot for animals, and became a vegetarian after she saw Grissom conduct an experiment on a dead pig.<ref>"Burden of Proof". ] (writers) & ] (director). ''CSI''. ]. 2002-02-07. Season 2 Ep. 15.</ref> She has also shown a tendency to become very aggressive when under pressure or annoyed, especially in cases involving abused women - such as her arguments with Catherine and Ecklie, and engaging in a heated argument with a man suspected of murdering his wife. In recent years, perhaps because of her mother's schizophrenia, she has been seen to work several cases with a mental health aspect.

In the early years of the show, Sidle is depicted as antisocial. Her hobbies are all work-related (listening to her ] and reading ]s); and she claims to prefer working with corpses over live people. In a mid-] episode, she realizes how much she is missing out on and decides to "get a life" outside of work.<ref>"You've Got Male". ], Corey Miller (writers) & Charlie Correll (director). ''CSI''. ]. 2001-12-20. Season 2 Ep. 12.</ref> During ] she dates a paramedic named Hank Pettigrew, but this relationship ends later in the season when she discovered that he had a longtime girlfriend. Later in the third season, she is injured in an explosion in the lab in search of Grissom, at the end of the episode she decides to ask Grissom to dinner though he turns her down, stating he doesn't know what to do about "this.".
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During the ] and ] seasons, Sidle seems to be on a downward spiral as her memories of childhood resurface, with cases becoming more difficult for her emotionally. Also, the fact that Grissom decided to promote ] instead of Sidle, did not help. Season Four concludes with Sidle being stopped by a traffic cop. Although she is ], she is not charged, but Grissom, as her supervisor, is informed of her arrest. He arrives at the station to bring her home, and finally seems to notice her emotional state.<ref>"Bloodlines". ], ], ], ] (writers) & ] (director). ''CSI''. ]. 2004-05-20. Season 4 Ep. 23.</ref> Later, in ], she loses her temper with a ] suspect and then argues with supervisors ] and ], which results in her suspension. Following this incident, she admits to Grissom that she has a problem with authority, has chosen emotionally unavailable men (like Grissom), and has a self-destructive streak. Sidle then opens up to him and reveals her family story;<ref name="Nesting Dolls p. 13">"Nesting Dolls". ] (writers) & ] (director). ''CSI''. ]. 2005-2-3. Season 5 Ep. 13.</ref> it is during this season that she apparently starts bonding with Grissom. During the subsequent seasons (] and ]), after it is revealed that they are in a relationship,<ref>"Way To Go". ] (writers) & ] (director). ''CSI''. ]. 2006-05-18. Season 6 Ep. 24.</ref> she appears to be happier and on a more even keel.<ref>"Ending Happy". Evan Dunsky (writer) & ] (director). ''CSI''. ]. 2007-04-26. Season 7 Ep. 21.</ref>

In ''CSI'''s eighth season, when Fox decided to leave the show,<ref> Retrieved on 2007-11-18.</ref> both she and the writers decided not to kill the character, so as to leave the door open for a possible comeback.<ref name="community.tvguide.com"></ref> Consequently, she becomes severely depressed after being abducted in the season seven finale (she is rescued in the first episode of the new season), and, even though she accepts Grissom's marriage proposal on the season's ], she shows signs of ] during the subsequent episodes, breaking down on the season's seventh episode, leaving Las Vegas with only a goodbye letter for Grissom in which she tells him she loves him - also kissing him out of the blue in front of another colleague - and a good luck note for Ronnie Lake (played by ]). In the letter she states that ever since her father's death she has been living with "ghosts" and that she now needs to go away and deal with them before self-destructing.

In the season eight episode "You Kill Me", Grissom indicates he has talked with her and that she is in San Francisco visiting her mother.

Promos for the season nine premiere announced that actress Jorja Fox would return, and showed her in three clips. However, Sidle left again after the second episode. She appeared again in the final scene of the tenth episode of season nine when she appears to be working on a research team in ], where Grissom joins her after leaving CSI. Then they are married.<ref name="blogs.kansascity.com"></ref><ref name="Good Luck p. 7">"Goodbye and Good Luck". ], ], ] (writers) & ] (director). ''CSI''. ]. 2007-11-15. Season 8 Ep. 7.</ref><ref>"You Kill Me" ], ] (writers) & ] (director). ''CSI''. ]. 2007-11-22. Season 8 Ep. 8</ref>

During the tenth season, Fox returned to ''CSI'' on a recurring basis.<ref name="ausiellofiles.ew.com"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091016171234/http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/10/14/exclusive-jorja-fox-makes-her-csi-return-more-permanent/ |date=October 16, 2009 }}</ref> This recurring role continued until the eleventh season of the show. She 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, she reminds Catherine that Grissom had Catherine as a number two, prompting the promotion of Nick Stokes to Assistant Supervisor.

==Relationships==
Sara Sidle's romantic relationships have been largely unsuccessful. In the ] she named a college boyfriend, Ken Fuller, with whom she had an unsatisfactory relationship, also saying that they had joined the ] (Unfriendly Skies). In ] she mentioned a college boyfriend who cheated on her. It is unclear whether Fuller was also the boyfriend who cheated on her. In the ] she had a ] with Hank Pettigrew, who was an ]. He was involved in several of her cases, but they later broke up after she found out Hank had a longtime girlfriend.<ref>"Crash and Burn". ] (writers) & ] (director). ''CSI''. ]. 2003-03-13. Season 3 Ep. 17.</ref>

During the first seasons, coroner ], laboratory technician ], and fellow CSI ] occasionally flirted with her, but nothing more than friendship resulted from those flirtations.

===Gil Grissom===
Since ''CSI'''s ] there were hints that both Sara Sidle and ] were interested in each other romantically; in fact, the show's producers initially introduced Sara Sidle as a future love interest for Grissom.<ref> Retrieved on 2007-11-06.</ref> However, during the show's first three seasons Grissom flirted with other female characters, and when she asked him out to dinner he rejected her, saying that he didn't know what to do about what was going on between them.<ref name="Fire p. 22">"Play with Fire". ], ] (writers) & ] (director). ''CSI''. ]. 2003-5-8. Season 3 Ep. 22.</ref>

In season four, Grissom's true feelings were revealed in "Butterflied", an episode that centers entirely around Grissom exploring his attraction to Sidle when confronted with a dead woman who bore a striking resemblance to her. In this episode, Grissom admitted that he was unable to risk his career to be with her. In this season Sara Sidle apparently developed a drinking problem, which Grissom acknowledged in the season finale. In the next season, Sidle was suspended for insubordination and told Grissom about her tormented childhood. He refused to fire her and had her working with him in almost every episode from season six and season seven.<ref name="Nesting Dolls p. 13"/>] and Sara Sidle on the fourth season episode "Invisible Evidence"]]
It was not until the sixth season finale that it is revealed that Grissom and Sidle have worked through whatever issues they had and are, in fact, a couple.<ref>"Way To Go". ] (writers) & ] (director). ''CSI''. ]. 2006-5-18. Season 6 Ep. 24.</ref> In season eight it was revealed they have been intimately involved for two years. This revelation caused mixed emotions from fans, some of whom see this relationship as ''CSI'' "]," an attempt to include more drama and romance to the show to compete with the medical drama '']'', which airs in the U.S. at the same time.<ref> Retrieved on 2007-10-21.</ref> By resolving the sexual tension between the two characters, critics posited that the show might appeal to some of ''Grey's'' younger audience.<ref> Retrieved on 2007-10-21.</ref> This has been denied by the writers. In one interview, producer ] said that she has never been able to see Grissom with any other character other than Sidle and that this episode was seen by the writers as the right time to reveal the relationship. ] and ] have also said that the relationship between their characters is not new.<ref> Retrieved on 2007-10-21.</ref>

Throughout ] the audience saw Grissom and Sidle as a couple, but the relationship was kept secret from the others in the lab until Sidle's abduction by ] in the season finale, during which Grissom reveals to the team that Sara is the only person he's ever loved.<ref>"Living Doll". ], ] (writers) & ] (director). ''CSI''. ]. 2007-5-17. Season 7 Ep. 24.</ref> In ], they become engaged to be married, but this storyline is left inconclusive when Sara leaves Grissom with a note three episodes later.<ref name="Good Luck p. 7"/><ref>"The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp". ], ] (writers) & ... (director). ''CSI''. ]. 2007-10-18. Season 8 Ep. 4.</ref>

A Season 8 scene - cut from its intended episode due to time constraints - showed Catherine Willows visiting Grissom's apartment to update him on a case. While he is in his bedroom, she snoops around and finds a woman's dressing robe in his closet. She then notices a photograph of Gil and Sara together on the fridge. When Grissom emerges from his room, she asks him "How long have you and Sara been together?" He tries to make a quick exit but not before she tells him she'd always thought he was a lonely bachelor, to which his response is to laugh and leave.

In the tenth episode of season nine, "One to Go", Grissom is seen walking through a rain forest holding a GPS System that places him in Costa Rica. He spots a bug on a leaf, but continues, eventually arriving at a camp where Sidle is seen taking a picture of a monkey in a tree. Sidle then sees Grissom, who removes his backpack and walks into Sidle's arms and greets her with a passionate kiss.

In "Family Affair", the first episode of Season 10, Sidle returns to work in the laboratory on a temporary basis, revealing that she and Grissom are now married and have been living in Paris while Grissom conducts a seminar at the ].

In "The Two Mrs. Grissoms", Sara attends a party for a school for the deaf. She then gets a call from Grissom during a Taiko drum performance. It was revealed that Grissom was in Peru consulting for the government. She then meets Grissom's mother, Betty, and two deaf professors, at which one of them ends up dead in a car explosion.

Grissom's mother ends up criticising Sara for not spending much time with Grissom.

At the end of the episode, she is shown talking with Grissom on a webcam, eventually having his mother walk into the office. Grissom then said that he will return to Vegas to have dinner with Sara and his mother.

At the end of "Malice in Wonderland" Grissom sends Sara two plants with a note saying "From Grissom"

Hints of a troubled relationship appear in several episodes in Season 13. In the episode "Forget Me Not" Sara finally reveals that she and Grissom had split up. In the end of the episode, she admitted to Nick and Greg that at the night of the murder she was expecting to see Grissom; Nick even admits that he and everyone else that worked with Grissom liked having them both together to sort of hang on to but realized that if the relationship is over, it's over.

After remaining separated for a number of years, Grissom and Sara are re-united in the series finale ], when a case involving a suicide bomber brings Grissom temporarily back to the Las Vegas crime lab. The series ends with the pair sailing away together into the sunset, their relationship apparently rekindled.

] has said that what Grissom loves about Sidle is her tenacity. "She's a bulldog. And he always saw that in her. And he always knew that subconsciously the only person who'd be able to give him a second look is someone who's not willing to take the first look for granted."<ref> Retrieved on 2007-11-06.</ref> On her side, ] has said that "The story of Sara and Grissom is a little like a ]. And most great fables don't really have 100 percent resolution."<ref> Retrieved on 2007-11-06.</ref>

==Public reaction==
Sara Sidle has gained an extensive ] throughout the years. A romantic relationship between Sidle and her supervisor, ], was hinted at during the first years of the show; but it was only in Season 6 that the relationship was confirmed and then made definitive with Grissom's marriage proposal in Season 8.

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Grissom and 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.<ref> Retrieved on 2007-11-06.</ref>

In early August 2007, upon rumors of ] leaving the show, a ] campaign started.<ref> Retrieved on 2007-11-06.</ref> Thousands of fans donated to the cause, and they had a plane flying over the ] of Los Angeles weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays with a "Keep Jorja Fox on CBS" banner for a month.<ref> Retrieved on 2007-11-06.</ref> The online forum ''Your Tax Dollars at Work'', which has about 15,000 members and has organized the campaign, created another campaign that includes mailing the show's producers a dollar, so as to keep Fox on the show. By October 5, 2007, more than $3,500 had reportedly been mailed to the Universal Studios from forty-nine countries. The campaign had started less than a week before, on September 29, 2007.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011204653/http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2007/10/csis-launch-sav.html |date=October 11, 2007 }} Retrieved on 2007-10-21.</ref>

Though the effort garnered media coverage, it was announced in late October, 2007 that Jorja Fox's final appearance as a full cast member would be in the episode '']'', which aired on November 15, 2007. Both writers and Fox have said that they believe that Sara Sidle "will be back" sometime in the future. Fox and ''CSI'' writer ] chose to donate the money sent to the studios to ], a national association that supports and promotes court-appointed advocates for abused or neglected children.<ref name="community.tvguide.com"/><ref> Retrieved on 2008-January 15.</ref><ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116115729/http://tv.popcrunch.com/jorja-fox-on-the-view/ |date=November 16, 2007 }} Retrieved on 2007-11-17.</ref>

CBS initially confirmed that Jorja Fox would be returning to CSI in the tenth season for the season premiere and four subsequent episodes. Executive producer Carol Mendelsohn has amended that Fox's tenure on the show has been extended indefinitely.<ref name="ausiellofiles.ew.com"/> CBS states that the season premiere would deal with where life has taken Sara and what brings her back to Las Vegas.

==Video games==
Jorja Fox voiced Sara Sidle in the first two ], '']'' and '']''. The other two video games, '']'' and '']'', were recorded by ].<ref> Retrieved on 2007-10-21.</ref><ref> Retrieved on 2007-10-21.</ref> Rachel Robinson voiced Sara in the ninth CSI game, '']''.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1271019/</ref>

== Career ==
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{{s-ttl|title=LVPD Crime Lab Director (season 16)}}
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==References==
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==Further reading==
* Marrinan, Corinne and Parker, Steve, ''Ultimate CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' (2006), DK Publishing, Inc.

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