Sarah Bowen made a marble run in a competition for The Inventor and is now appears as a character in the film
A Dublin teenager is starring in a Hollywood movie – as a puppet.
Sarah Bowen was 13 when she entered a children’s competition in 2020 where the prize was to become a character in an animated feature film based on artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci.
She will now be seen as a puppet character in the Universal Pictures movie about the Renaissance artistic genius, scientist and engineer who conceived a helicopter, a tank and a parachute among other incredible contraptions, hundreds of years before they were actually made.
Leonardo is voiced by Stephen Fry. The star-studded cast includes Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley and Marion Cotillard, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edith Piaf, the French chanteuse, in La Vie En Rose.