Sarah Goldberg obit

‘7th Heaven’ actress Sarah Goldberg dies at 40

She was not on the list.

Sarah Goldberg, who starred in the television series “7th Heaven” and the film “Jurassic Park III,” died late last month, her family said. She was 40.

Goldberg died in her sleep of natural causes on September 27 at her family’s cabin in Wisconsin, her mother Judy Goldberg told the Chicago Sun-Times. She said a heart ailment is suspected, although an autopsy failed to determine the exact cause of death.

“She went to sleep and didn’t wake up,” she said. Goldberg was visiting her family for the Jewish holidays.

Goldberg’s entertainment career started as a bumblebee in a Chicago City Ballet production of “Cinderella,” her mother said, and gained momentum when she was asked to be an extra on the Julia Roberts movie “My Best Friend’s Wedding.” She got the role because her mother co-owned a company providing table linens for a set. A film staffer saw her helping arrange tablecloths and asked her to be in a scene, her mother said.

Goldberg went on to appear in television series including “90210,” ”Judging Amy,” ”The Beast,” and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”

In “7th Heaven” she played Jewish medical student Sarah Glass Camden who fell in love with the son of a Christian pastor.

“She wanted to go to medical school, and instead for three years she played a doctor on ‘7th Heaven,'” Judy Goldberg said of her daughter.

Goldberg also played a college student looking for drugs in the Denzel Washington movie “Training Day.”

The actress sometimes was credited under the stage name Sarah Danielle Madison.

Goldberg was born in 1974 in Springfield, where her father worked as a lawyer.

She graduated from Amherst College in 1996 with a degree in microbiology, according to her IMDB biography.

Goldberg attended the Latin School of Chicago before going to Amherst. She practiced yoga and was a trick skiier.

“She could get on (skis) backwards and blow kisses to people and pretend she was a water skier,” her mother said.

Filmography

    Ivans Xtc (2000) – Naomi

    Jurassic Park III (2001) – Cheryl Logan, one of Grant's graduate students at the dig site

    Training Day (2001) – Female college passenger

    Virgins (2001) – Tabitha

    Judging Amy (2002–2004, TV Series) – Dr. Heather Labonte

    7th Heaven (2002–2006, TV Series) – Dr. Sarah Glass

    House (2009, 1 episode)

    Pig (2011) – Woman 2

    90210 (2009–2011, TV Series) – Colleen Sarkossian (final appearance)