Sara Martins facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Sara Martins
Sara Martins at 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Born	(1977-08-19) 19 August 1977 (age 47) Faro, Portugal
Nationality	French
Alma mater	CNSAD
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2000–present
Known for	Death in Paradise

Sara Martins is a talented French actress. She was born on August 19, 1977. Sara is well-known in France for her work in TV shows, movies, and plays. Many people also know her from the British-French TV series Death in Paradise. In this show, she played Detective Sergeant Camille Bordey. The series was filmed in Guadeloupe, which is a French island. She left the show during its fourth season in 2015. However, she later came back for a short time in Season 10 and again in Season 13 for a video call.

About Sara Martins' Early Life

Sara Martins was born in Faro, a city in Portugal. Her family comes from Cape Verde. When she was three years old, she moved to France.

As a young person, Sara studied ballet. She was the first person of African descent to join the Lyon Opera ballet company. She later realized she couldn't move on to the Paris Opera. This was because they wanted all their dancers to look similar, and there were no other black dancers there.

Instead, Sara decided to focus on theater. She earned her high school diploma with a theater focus. After studying law for a while, she started acting school at age 20. She studied at a school in Paris called Les Enfants Terribles. Then, she went on to get an acting degree from the French National Academy of Dramatic Arts. Sara even learned English by listening to songs from the band U2 when she was a teenager!

Sara Martins' Acting Career

Starting Out in Acting

Right after high school, Sara Martins got a job with a famous director named Roger Planchon. She acted in a play called Le Radeau de la Méduse. This play was performed at a theater in Villeurbanne, France.

She also performed in plays in London, England. One play was called Le Costume (which means The Suit). She also acted in a French version of a play called Race.

Sara's first TV roles were in 2001. She appeared in French police shows like Maigret and Police District. She also played a character named Fleur in the series Pigalle, la nuit. While working on Death in Paradise, Sara also had a main role in the French crime series Détectives. In this show, she played Nora Abadie.

She also appeared in a movie called Paris, je t'aime in 2006.

Her Time on Death in Paradise

In 2011, the BBC One TV channel announced that Sara Martins would be in a new show. It was a crime comedy-drama called Death in Paradise. This show was Sara's first time acting in a comedy. It was also her first time on British television. She had played a police officer before, so she was ready for the role.

Death in Paradise first aired on October 25, 2011. Sara played Camille Bordey, a detective sergeant. Her character worked on a made-up Caribbean island called Saint-Marie. Camille and the other local police officers helped a British detective, Richard Poole, solve murders. During filming, Sara once hurt her achilles tendon while doing a stunt. She has said that working on the show helped her realize some of her actions are very French!

In the third season, Detective Inspector Poole's character left the show. He was replaced by a new British detective, Humphrey Goodman. Sara's last episode was in the fourth season, called "Until Death Do You Part." Her character, Camille, moved to Paris. Sara said she loved everything about the show. But she felt she needed to take risks to grow, even if it meant leaving something she loved. In 2021, Sara and the actor who played Richard Poole both returned for a special two-part episode.

Recent Acting Roles

After Death in Paradise, Sara Martins appeared in other French detective shows. These included La Loi d'Alexandre and Capitaine Marleau. In 2018, she was in the British series Father Brown. She played the wife of a criminal character named Flambeau.

In 2018, she also played a police inspector in a TV movie called Un Mensonge Oublié. She appeared in the movie Kiss & Tell and a British TV movie called I Love My Mum.

In 2020, Sara played a police detective in the French TV series Grand Hôtel. She also appeared in Réunions, a French TV series set on La Réunion island. She played Diane Dombre in another French TV series called Alexandra Ehle.

In 2023, she had a role in the TV series Citadel, which is available on Prime Video. In 2024, she was in the movie Coup de Chance and the TV series Those About to Die.

Selected Film and TV Roles

Movies

Television Shows

See also

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