Sara Martins

Sara Martins

Born: August 19, 1977
in Faro, Portugal
Sara Martins (born 19 August 1977) is a Portuguese-born French actress of Cape Verdean descent. She is known in France for her roles on television and in film and theatre. She also appeared as Detective Sergeant Camille Bordey in the joint British-French crime comedy-drama Death in Paradise, filmed in Guadeloupe, a French overseas department. Sara was born in Faro, in the Portuguese region of Algarve, and is of Cape Verdean descent. She moved to France at the age of three. She studied ballet in her youth and was the first person of African descent to join the Lyon Opera. She learned that she would be unable to advance to the Paris Opera, where the corps was expected to look alike and there were no other black dancers. Instead, she received her Baccalauréat with a theatre option. After receiving a DEUG in law, at age 20 she studied at the École de théâtre Les Enfants Terribles in Paris. Then, she completed an acting degree at the extremely selective French National Academy of Dramatic Arts. She learned English through U2 lyrics as a teenager.

Movies for Sara Martins...

Title: Those About to Die
Character: Cala
Released: July 18, 2024
Type: TV
Within the spectacular, complex and corrupt world of gladiatorial sports in Ancient Rome, follow an ensemble of diverse characters across the many layers of Roman society where sports, politics and business intersect and collide.
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Coup de Chance
Title: Coup de Chance
Character: Julia
Released: September 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Two young people's bond leads to marital infidelity and ultimately crime. Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, Alain, a former high school friend, she is immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and get closer and closer.
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Title: Citadel
Character: Sandra
Released: April 27, 2023
Type: TV
What if you lost your memory? What if a spy didn’t know they were a spy? Years ago, the top agents of Citadel, Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh, had their minds wiped. But, they’re called back to action as sinister forces emerge from the past. With the help of spymaster Bernard Orlick, these former lovers must remember the past to save the future.
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Un alibi
Title: Un alibi
Character: Lucie
Released: April 26, 2022
Type: Movie
A group of friends who have known each other for many years meet at Max and Lucie's house to celebrate Lucie's birthday. When they arrive, the three guests discover Max kneeling in front of the body of his wife who has been murdered. He is sure that the police will charge him because everything accuses him. Convinced of his innocence, his friends decide to give him an alibi. But the investigation tightens around Max...
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Flowing Home
Title: Flowing Home
Character: Thao (voice)
Released: November 5, 2021
Type: Movie
The intertwining fates of two Vietnamese sisters who sustain a wartime relationship through written correspondence.
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Title: Grand Hôtel
Character: Camille Sargass
Released: September 3, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Réunions
Character: Victoire
Released: April 15, 2020
Type: TV
When Chloé learns that Jérémy, her companion, inherited her "unknown" father's hotel in Reunion, she sees it as an opportunity to start a new life with her blended family, far from Roubaix and their financial worries ...
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I Love My Mum
Title: I Love My Mum
Character: Shannelle
Released: May 31, 2019
Type: Movie
A mother and son duo get inadvertently shipped in a container from London to Morocco with nothing but their pajamas. The adventure takes them through Spain and France on a journey to get home and rebuild their rocky relationship.
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Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
Title: Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
Character: Josephine Baker (voice)
Released: November 22, 2018
Type: Movie
How did a poor little black girl from Missouri become the Queen of Paris, before joining the French Resistance and finally creating her dream family “The Rainbow Tribe”, adopting twelve children from four corners of the world? This is the fabulous story of the first black superstar, Josephine Baker.
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Kiss & Tell
Title: Kiss & Tell
Character: Serena
Released: October 10, 2018
Type: Movie
Sequel to 2002's "Summer Things" (Embrassez qui vous voudrez). This French comedy follows various people in two families. Bertrand and his wife, Elizabeth, are a wealthy couple who plan to vacation near the same coastal town as their friends, Jerome and Veronique, who are secretly struggling with financial problems. Meanwhile, Bertrand and his daughter, Emilie, have each been hiding a secret, and these deceptions are bound to have repercussions.
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Her Word Against His
Title: Her Word Against His
Character: Anna
Released: May 2, 2018
Type: Movie
A rape victim faces a dilemma: tell the truth about her assault or stay silent and allow her attacker to be falsely convicted for murder.
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Children of the Lie
Title: Children of the Lie
Character: Carole Levasseur
Released: April 15, 2018
Type: Movie
A week before her wedding, Agathe Plichard, a pretty young woman of mixed race, is found drowned in the Creuse river. The police treat the case as an accident but her fiancé, Félix Bricourt, is convinced she was murdered. He decides to investigate by himself, despite the wishes of his family, a wealthy dynasty of the region. Won over by Félix's resolve, police inspector Carole Levasseur also decides to find out the truth. The murder of an independent journalist changes the course of the investigation, stirring up the past and unveiling the forgotten "Children of the Creuse" affair.
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Title: Alexandra Ehle
Character: Diane Dombres
Released: March 27, 2018
Type: TV
Alexandra Ehle is a coroner at the Bordeaux forensic institute. Fanciful and free-thinking, she devotes herself completely to what she considers her mission: restoring to the dead their dignity and human appearance, and giving them justice.
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Missing Child
Title: Missing Child
Character: Luisa Castelli
Released: December 8, 2017
Type: Movie
Luisa lives with Mathieu, the man she loves, and Arthur, Mathieu's son by his first wife, who died in an accident. But Arthur, whom Luisa has been raising like her own, suddenly disappears from school and no one claims a kidnapping.
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Title: La Loi d'Alexandre
Character: Sonia Dubois
Released: September 22, 2015
Type: TV
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Title: Capitaine Marleau
Character: Irène Ruff
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: TV
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
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Title: American Odyssey
Character: Serena
Released: April 5, 2015
Type: TV
In this "Traffic"-like action drama, an international conspiracy explodes when three strangers' lives unexpectedly collide - a female soldier, a corporate lawyer and a political activist.
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Une idée en l'air
Title: Une idée en l'air
Character: Coralie
Released: February 14, 2014
Type: Movie
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Title: Cherif
Character: Isabelle Vanier
Released: October 25, 2013
Type: TV
Police Captain Kader Cherif knows the city like the back of his hand, and, as someone could say, never leaves his duty, because his apartment located on the first floor of the building opposite to the police station. He is assigned to investigate unusual murders in Lyon. Of course, he is using only legitimate methods which sometimes seem to be unusual and are displeasing his new partner Adeline Briard, police captain as well.
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Title: Détectives
Character: Nora Abadie
Released: May 22, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Murders in...
Character: Léna Valrose
Released: April 23, 2013
Type: TV
Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
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Title: Father Brown
Character: Lisandra Flambeau
Released: January 14, 2013
Type: TV
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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Title: Cain
Character: Barbara Simon
Released: October 5, 2012
Type: TV
A cynical experienced homicide detective based in Marseilles, France is crippled in the line of duty and depends on a wheelchair to get around. He is accompanied by a young ,vivacious female detective who's been forced on him to train as a condition of his ability to continue to work as a field detective.
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Above Suspicion
Title: Above Suspicion
Character: Julie
Released: December 2, 2011
Type: Movie
Valérie, a youthful 40, is an active, exemplary woman. A psychiatrist by trade, she is also a perfect mother, wife, and parishioner. And yet, Valérie is also a murderer.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Camille Bordey
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Title: Signature
Character: Hélène
Released: April 22, 2011
Type: TV
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The Marquis
Title: The Marquis
Character: Commandant Gilbert
Released: March 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Thomas Gardesse, a traveling alarm systems salesman, is arrested for a minor offense and sentenced to six months imprisonment. To win the respect of his fellow inmates, he claims he is "The Marquis," a brilliant robber whose identity has remained a mystery. Two weeks before his release, an armed robber named Quentin Tasseau helps him escape and takes him to Manila so he can take part in a robbery whose mastermind requires the talents of the Marquis.
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L'Amour, la mort, les fringues
Title: L'Amour, la mort, les fringues
Released: February 26, 2011
Type: Movie
They stick to our skin and soul, our clothes. We believe we buy them, they own us. Warning ! these rags are traitors: far from dressing us they expose our complexes, our moods ... Clinging to their hangers, to our memories too, they exercise an underhand dictatorship. Snuggled up, huddled together, they build a bulwark against oblivion in our closets. Often stained for eternity with ink or redcurrant, impregnated with perfume, tears sometimes, piled up or messed up on our shelves, they remain forever linked to the happy or unhappy chapters of our life. It is through the evocation of their wardrobe that Gigi, Eve, Marie, Nora, Françoise, Amanda, Lisa and the others evoke the past, missed appointments and those that changed their lives, the joys and childhood revolts, giggles, disappointments, dramas, parties and hopes too…
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Leila
Title: Leila
Character: Serena
Released: February 23, 2011
Type: Movie
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Last Blood
Title: Last Blood
Character: Vérité N'Diaye
Released: February 2, 2011
Type: Movie
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Profil non conforme
Title: Profil non conforme
Character: Sara
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
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Little White Lies
Title: Little White Lies
Character: La copine lesbienne de Marie
Released: October 20, 2010
Type: Movie
Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they've been telling each other.
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Un divorce de chien
Title: Un divorce de chien
Character: Elsa
Released: May 29, 2010
Type: Movie
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Les Révélations 2010
Title: Les Révélations 2010
Released: January 7, 2010
Type: Movie
Every year, the family of cinema is growing by welcoming a young and new generation of actresses and actors, who loudly declare their passion for film.
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Title: Pigalle, la nuit
Character: Fleur
Released: November 23, 2009
Type: TV
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The Concert
Title: The Concert
Character: Secretaire Duplessis
Released: November 4, 2009
Type: Movie
A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. For the concerto, he engages a young violin soloist with whom he has an unexpected connection.
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Orpailleur
Title: Orpailleur
Character: Yann
Released: March 12, 2009
Type: Movie
18 ans après avoir quitté sa terre natale, Rod, jeune Parisien d´origine guyanaise, rentre au pays suite à la disparition de son frère aîné. Gonz, son ami d´enfance des cités, fait partie du voyage. À Cayenne, la révélation d´un douloureux secret de famille pousse Rod dans une quête effrénée de vérité. Il fait la connaissance de Yann, une jeune guide de tourisme écologique très remontée contre les méfaits de l’orpaillage clandestin. Tous les trois seront dès lors pris dans un engrenage, entraînés au bout fleuve, au coeur de la forêt amazonienne, dans le milieu hostile et archaïque des orpailleurs clandestins...
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Mensch
Title: Mensch
Character: Helena
Released: January 2, 2009
Type: Movie
A 35 ans, Sam est un casseur de coffres hors pair. Entre la garde de son petit garçon qu'il élève seul, son grand-père qui rêverait de le voir rejoindre l'entreprise familiale, sa petite amie qui se lasse de ses mensonges, il essaie désespérément de devenir un Mensch, un homme bien.
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La veuve Tatouée
Title: La veuve Tatouée
Character: Sylvie
Released: October 30, 2008
Type: Movie
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Belleville Tour
Title: Belleville Tour
Character: Aline
Released: August 6, 2008
Type: Movie
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Summer Hours
Title: Summer Hours
Character: Atachée de presse
Released: March 5, 2008
Type: Movie
After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.
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Title: The Brides of Bourbon Island
Character: Marie Gaudin
Released: September 27, 2007
Type: TV
Historical seventeenth-century romantic-epic-action-adventure where three women survived a harrowing ocean voyage from France to forcibly marry French ex-patriots on the island of Bourbon (now Réunion).
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Title: The Rookies
Character: Mathilde Forestier
Released: September 19, 2007
Type: TV
The cases of five young and well-intentioned police recruits often turn into catastrophes.
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Fragile(s)
Title: Fragile(s)
Character: Sara
Released: June 20, 2007
Type: Movie
Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon.
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Autopsy
Title: Autopsy
Character: Sarah Ouaziz
Released: April 11, 2007
Type: Movie
Eric and Sarah are detectives who are investigating the murder of a professor which it seems like a gay hate crime. Married Eric becomes attracted to the pathologist, Emmanuel.
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Tell No One
Title: Tell No One
Character: L'amie de Bruno
Released: November 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
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Title: Les Tricheurs
Character: Sophie Devailly
Released: October 11, 2006
Type: TV
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The Botanist
Title: The Botanist
Released: October 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Two musicians who play for tips at a Portuguese train station find a magical book left by a passenger in a rush to board a train. The musicians walk across the Alentejo region of Portugal in search of the passenger. This leads to a walking journey of beautiful fields, local towns, and the Alentejo countryside. The is a wonderful film of two friends who explore a magical country. It is charming and has elements of a dreamlike fantasy.
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Mer belle à agitée
Title: Mer belle à agitée
Character: l'inspectrice du travail
Released: September 2, 2006
Type: Movie
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Title: Les Secrets du volcan
Character: Jasmine Mahé
Released: August 23, 2006
Type: TV
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J'invente rien
Title: J'invente rien
Character: Stéphanie
Released: August 16, 2006
Type: Movie
Paul has no specific life goal, and Mathilde, who provides for their household, despairs that he can find one. If he continues like this, she may well drop him. So Paul thinks he's got to invent something.
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Beyond the Ocean
Title: Beyond the Ocean
Character: Olga
Released: July 2, 2006
Type: Movie
Journey of an african migrant through Europe.
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Paris Je T'aime
Title: Paris Je T'aime
Character: Sara (Parc Monceau)
Released: June 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
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My Friends
Title: My Friends
Character: Shaheen
Released: June 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Manon, Aurore and Marie would like to represent their school at the Youth Challenge “Dance Special” organized by Paris’s city hall. If they win, they could have a month’s vacation in a country of their dreams, free from all constraints.
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Enceinte jusqu'aux dents
Title: Enceinte jusqu'aux dents
Character: Ambre, la réalisatrice
Released: June 12, 2006
Type: Movie
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Title: Disparition
Character: Karine
Released: May 6, 2006
Type: TV
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Bhaï bhaï
Title: Bhaï bhaï
Character: Lola "bonnes vacances"
Released: November 5, 2005
Type: Movie
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Title: Merci, les enfants vont bien !
Character: Jeanne
Released: September 28, 2005
Type: TV
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In Your Dreams
Title: In Your Dreams
Character: La femme de Keuj
Released: April 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Ninth is a promising young rapper whose reputation does not exceed even the few streets of his neighborhood. With his band and supported by Keuj, hairdresser apprentice producer, he tries to attend concerts and trying to break into the music, to the chagrin of his mother, who would see him in a more conventional career at the post office...
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Ne quittez pas !
Title: Ne quittez pas !
Character: La réceptionniste de l'hotel
Released: August 18, 2004
Type: Movie
Félix Mandel, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, is married with a four-year-old son and often has his head in the clouds.
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Title: Le Proc
Character: Virginie Desplat
Released: February 2, 2004
Type: TV
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Les amateurs
Title: Les amateurs
Character: Maya
Released: January 14, 2004
Type: Movie
In a suburb of Paris, the clumsy efforts of two friends in their twenties to make themselves loved by two young students.
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Par amour
Title: Par amour
Character: Maria
Released: May 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Nicole Doucet is a gourmet chef. Everything is going well professionally for the young woman. Guillaume, her son, is a former drug addict whom she has lost sight of. The day he returns to her restaurant, she discovers that he is married to a woman much older than him. Nicole is suspicious of this idyll and fears that Guillaume will fall back into the infernal spiral of drugs.
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Title: La ligne noire
Character: Sandrine
Released: November 21, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Malone
Character: Kif Kif
Released: November 7, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Police District
Character: Julie
Released: September 6, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Avocats et associés
Character: La juge Garnier
Released: October 23, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Louis Page
Character: Noémie
Released: September 30, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: P.J.
Character: Estelle
Released: September 12, 1997
Type: TV