[3] Sawyer began her career on stage with the Otis Skinner theatrical company and performed in Shakespeare's plays for two years.

[2] Over her tenure with his film studio Thomas Edison was said to have considered Sawyer as his favorite actress.

[5] In 1914, she starred with Betty Harte in A Woman's Triumph where they played roles as sisters of widely different temperament.

At some point she married Charles Frederick Wolff and spent time living in Florida and New Jersey.

[7] She died on September 7, 1970, in Emory Manor Nursing Home in Matawan, New Jersey, aged 85.