1. Sara Martins was born on 19 August 1977 and is a French actress.
19 Facts About Sara Martins
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Sara Martins is known in France for her roles on television and in film and theatre.
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Sara Martins appeared as Detective Sergeant Camille Bordey in the joint British-French crime comedy-drama Death in Paradise, filmed in Guadeloupe, a French overseas department.
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Sara Martins left the show halfway through series 4.
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Sara Martins later returned to Season 10 E6 to reprise her role temporarily, and again in Series 13 Episode 1, in a video call with Neville.
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Sara Martins studied ballet in her youth and was the first person of African descent to join the Lyon Opera.
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Sara Martins 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.
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Sara Martins learned English through U2 lyrics as a teenager.
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Shortly after graduating from high school, Sara Martins was hired by Roger Planchon for a local production of Le Radeau de la Meduse at the Theatre National Populaire in Villeurbanne.
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Sara Martins appeared in a play at the Young Vic in London called Le Costume and in a French-language production of David Mamet's Race.
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Sara Martins appeared in the series Pigalle, la nuit as Fleur.
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Sara Martins appeared in the film Paris, je t'aime in the segment Parc Monceau, the 17th arrondissement.
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Sara Martins played Camille Bordey, a detective sergeant on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Sara Martins has said that during the production of Death in Paradise she discovered that some of her mannerisms are distinctly French.
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Sara Martins appeared in two French detective shows, La Loi d'Alexandre, first episode, and Capitaine Marleau, episode 2 in Series 2.
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Sara Martins appeared in the British series Father Brown in 2018 as the wife of criminal Flambeau.
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Sara Martins appeared as Victoire in Reunions, a French television series set on La Reunion, for 6 episodes.
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Sara Martins played Diane Dombre in the French television series Alexandra Ehle, about a persistent coroner in Bordeaux.
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Sara Martins played a role in Citadel, on Prime Video in 2023.