Sara Waisglass: Age, Career, TikTok & Degrassi Facts

Most actors don’t get asked about a star they have never met as often as Sara Waisglass does. The Toronto-born performer built her career on Degrassi, plays Maxine Baker in Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia, and still fields “are you Leighton Meester?” comments from fans and strangers. This article sorts the verified facts — her on-screen timeline, her TikTok following, her screenwriting detour — from the questions people actually search about her.

TikTok followers: 8.1M ·
TikTok likes: 163.1M ·
Degrassi role: Frankie Hollingsworth ·
Degrassi run: 2013–2017 ·
Acting since age: 6 ·
Instagram handle: @sarawais

Ten facts, one pattern: Sara Waisglass built a Canadian TV career, then a Netflix career, then a TikTok audience that outgrew both.

The table below lays out her biography at a glance.

Is Sara Waisglass in a relationship?

It is a natural question after watching her play characters with active romantic lives on Degrassi and Ginny & Georgia. The public record is thin by design: she does not discuss a partner in interviews, and her social feeds read like a professional portfolio rather than a personal diary.

Is Sara Waisglass married?

• No marriage or engagement records appear in the profiles, interviews, and databases reviewed for this article.
• Her Instagram feed — a mix of set posts, premiere moments, and comedy clips — contains no relationship announcements (Instagram).

That absence of evidence is itself the finding. In an interview with ELLE Canada timed to her rising profile, the conversation stayed on craft — screenwriting, Netflix, Toronto — rather than her personal life (ELLE Canada).

What is Sara Waisglass’ Instagram?

• Handle: @sarawais (Instagram).
• Content: set photos, front-row fashion shots, behind-the-scenes clips, and deadpan videos.
• Relationship content: none public.

The account mirrors her TikTok approach: visible, active, professional, and careful about what stays private.

The pattern: fans meet Frankie Hollingsworth, a Degrassi character with big romantic storylines, and assume the actor behind her shares that openness. The record suggests Waisglass draws a clean line between the two.

What is Sara Waisglass’ ethnicity?

The question deserves a precise answer: Sara Waisglass is Canadian, and her specific ethnic background is not documented in the sources covering her career. That is not a mystery to solve; it is information her public profiles simply do not include.

What is Leighton Meester’s ethnicity?

• Leighton Meester has a documented mixed ethnic background, which she has discussed publicly over the years.
• Sara Waisglass’s background is not documented in the interviews and databases cited here.
• The resemblance fans notice does not extend to any documented heritage link.

The useful distinction: Meester’s heritage is part of her public story, while Waisglass’s background is not part of the record at all. Searchers expecting an ethnicity entry for Sara will not find one — not because the topic is guarded, but because the sources that track her career do not publish it.

How old is Sara Waisglass?

• Born: July 3, 1998, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, per her IMDb profile (see key facts above); South China Morning Post independently confirms a July 1998 birth.
• Age: 27 as of mid-2025, the reference point for this article.

ELLE Canada’s March 2023 profile described her as a Toronto-based actor who was 24 at the time, which lines up with the July 1998 birth date (ELLE Canada).

How tall is Sara Waisglass?

• Height: not listed on IMDb, the Sailfin profile, or the interview-based profiles reviewed here.
• Conclusion: the height query currently has no verifiable answer.

The honest response is “not publicly documented.” Unlike many actor profiles, hers does not include height data, so any number circulating online is guesswork.

Did Sara Waisglass lose weight?

This question tells you more about search behavior than about Sara Waisglass. No credible source, interview, or public record documents a weight change for her, and she has not addressed one publicly. The query appears to be speculative traffic that follows actresses on hit Netflix shows — so the responsible answer is to flag it as unverified and point to what is actually documented.

What is the Sara Waisglass meme?

• The “meme” refers to her TikTok comedy sketches, reaction videos, and deadpan editing style.
• Her TikTok account (@sara.wais) has 8.1M followers and 163.1M likes (TikTok).
• It is not a meme about her appearance or her body.

The confusion is understandable: when a clip of Waisglass’s comedy gets reshared, it travels as a “Sara Waisglass meme” without context. The content behind the label is her writing, timing, and performance — not a physical change.

The respectful answer to the weight question is that the public record contains nothing to support a weight-loss story. Her own feeds focus on comedy and craft, and her interviews focus on screenwriting and roles — which is exactly where the conversation should stay.

The pattern: the meme that actually follows her around is comedy, not change. That is the durable part of her online footprint.

Is Leighton Meester related to Sara Waisglass?

No. Sara Waisglass is not Leighton Meester, is not related to Leighton Meester, and has never appeared on Gossip Girl. The confusion is an internet-generation overlap: Waisglass has said people often tell her she resembles Meester, and that lookalike observation took on a life of its own in search queries (BuzzFeed).

What is Leighton Meester’s real name?

• Leighton Meester’s birth name is Leighton Marissa Claire Meester, per public records.
• Sara Waisglass has never claimed any connection to that family or that name.

They are different actresses from different countries. Waisglass’s career was built in Canadian television; Meester’s was built in American network television.

Is Leighton Meester a Nepo baby?

• The label: “nepo baby” usually means family connections opened industry doors.
• The record: public records describe a family with no entertainment-industry ties; Meester’s path ran through modeling and stage roles in New York.

Waisglass’s path looks different on paper — she started in commercials at age 6 — but the throughline is the same: both entered the industry through agencies and auditions, not a family name.

What movies and TV shows has Sara Waisglass appeared in?

• Overruled! — Jordy Cooper, the children’s sitcom role that first raised her profile (Numéro Netherlands).
• Degrassi: The Next Generation (2013–2015) — Frankie Hollingsworth, recurring (Elite Daily).
• Degrassi: Next Class (2016–2017) — Frankie Hollingsworth, starring (Elite Daily).
• Mary Goes Round (2017) — Robyn (Wikipedia).
• Ginny & Georgia (2021–present) — Maxine Baker (The Creative Imbalance).

The Degrassi Wiki’s entry on the character adds a useful detail for fans: Frankie Hollingsworth is the younger sister of Miles and the twin sister of Hunter (Degrassi Wiki).

Was Sara Waisglass in Teen Wolf?

• Teen Wolf in her credits: no.

Teen Wolf does not appear anywhere in Waisglass’s filmography. The assumption probably comes from her Degrassi-era look and the general “young adult TV” bucket, but the record is clear: Overruled!, Degrassi, Mary Goes Round, and Ginny & Georgia are her confirmed credits.

Was Sara Waisglass in The Good Doctor?

• The Good Doctor in her credits: no.

The Good Doctor is also absent from her filmography. A quick check of her IMDb credits confirms both absences: Teen Wolf and The Good Doctor are not part of her acting history (IMDb).

Four comparisons, one conclusion: the resemblance is real, the connection is not.

Below is a side-by-side look at how the two actresses compare.

The implication: a search shortcut — “Sara Waisglass looks like Leighton Meester” — became a false identity for people who had never seen her work. The resemblance is the only connection, and it is doing heavy lifting in search results.

Why aren’t Blake Lively and Leighton Meester friends?

This question shows up in the same search cluster as Sara Waisglass because search engines group all three names as one Gossip Girl–adjacent block. The short answer: neither Blake Lively nor Leighton Meester has publicly discussed a feud, and their relationship is mostly inferred from old press coverage and social-media silence.

Is Adam Brody a nice guy in real life?

• The connection: Brody married Leighton Meester; he has no connection to Sara Waisglass.
• The reputation: years of interviews and co-star comments describe him as low-key and friendly.

Adam Brody enters this conversation because of Gossip Girl and that marriage, not because of anything in Waisglass’s orbit. The “nice guy” reputation is consistent enough to be credible, but it is press reputation, not a documented verdict.

Who almost played Blair Waldorf?

• The casting history: other actresses were reportedly offered the role before Leighton Meester was cast.

Gossip Girl’s casting process went through multiple names before Meester made the character hers. What matters here: it is a Gossip Girl question, and it has no bearing on Sara Waisglass’s career.

Who all had a crush on Leighton Meester?

• The era: during Gossip Girl’s run, Meester was a fixture in celebrity-crush polls and interviews.

This is a fandom relic of the late-2000s to early-2010s press cycle. It surfaces now because the Sara-to-Leighton resemblance sends new searchers down a Gossip Girl rabbit hole they didn’t ask for.

What allegations have been made against Leighton Meester?

• The documented claim: her mother filed lawsuits against her over financial matters, and the cases became public court records.

The disputes were between Meester and her mother, covered widely in entertainment news at the time. None of it involves Sara Waisglass, and none of it reflects on the Gossip Girl cast dynamic fans ask about.

Sara Waisglass career timeline

Her career reads like a sequence of outgrowing the last label before it sticks: child actor, Degrassi regular, Netflix lead, developing screenwriter.

• Age 6: begins booking commercials in Toronto (South China Morning Post).
• Early career: lands the role of Jordy Cooper in the children’s sitcom Overruled! (Numéro Netherlands).
• 2013–2017: plays Frankie Hollingsworth across Degrassi: The Next Generation and Degrassi: Next Class (Yahoo News Canada).
• 2017: appears as Robyn in the drama film Mary Goes Round (Wikipedia).
• 2021–present: stars as Maxine Baker in Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia (The Creative Imbalance).
• Present: builds a dual career as actress and screenwriter, with a screenwriting degree from York University behind her.

The pattern: each phase introduced her to a new audience without erasing the one before. Child-actor fans, Degrassi loyalists, and Netflix viewers now overlap in one growing fan base.

What’s confirmed and what’s still unclear

The clearest way to read Sara Waisglass’s public profile is to separate the documented work from the undocumented personal details.

The pattern: public about work, private about everything else. That is the line Sara Waisglass has drawn since she was a child actor, and nothing in the record suggests she is crossing it.

Quotes from the record

Two sources frame her career better than any bio line: the production company that documents her early start, and her own Instagram caption.

“…an actress, writer and musician who’s been working in the industry since she was 6 years old.”

Sailfin Productions — production company profile of Sara Waisglass

“You have no idea how much I learn from you day to day. Long live Canadian film!!!”

Sara Waisglass, via Instagram (@sarawais)

What this means: even in her own words, she talks about the work, the learning, and Canadian film — not the attention, not the comparisons, not the numbers.

What the record shows

Sara Waisglass’s story is unusually easy to verify and unusually hard to summarize, because the public knows her work far better than her biography. The confirmed part: a Canadian actress who started at six, grew up on Degrassi, landed Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia, and amassed 8.1M TikTok followers along the way. The unconfirmed part is everything search engines keep guessing at — her relationships, her ethnicity, her height, a weight change that never had a source. For fans, the implication is clear: follow her work and her comedy, not the lookalike queries. The Leighton Meester comparison will keep showing up, and it will keep being wrong.

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