Sara Carinhas was born in 1987

She has been studying with Polina Klimovitskaya since 2009.
She finished her degree in Artisitc Studies at the Faculdade de Letras – Lisbon University.

As an actress she worked with Adriano Luz, Ana Tamen (Jean Racine), Beatriz Batarda, Cristina Carvalhal (Marius von Mayenburg) , Fernanda Lapa (Euripides), João Mota (Edmond Rostand); Luis Castro (Raúl Brandão), Nuno Cardoso (Anton Chèckov and William Shakespeare), Marco Martins (Jean Genet), Nuno Carinhas (Bertold Brecht), Olga Roriz, Ricardo Aibéo (Georg Büchner), Ricardo Pais (William Shakespeare) and Victor Hugo Pontes (Virginia Woolf).

And on cinema she worked with Valeria Sarmiento, Manoel de Oliveira, Alberto Seixas Santos, Manuel Mozos, Pedro Marques, Tiago Guedes e Frederico Serra and Rui Simões. Sara was responsable for the dramaturgie, casting direction and actors' direction in the movie Snu, from Patrícia Sequeira.

She won the Young Talent L’Oreal Paris award on the Estoril Film Festival as an actress on the movie Coisa Ruim (2008) ; the Portuguese authors society price, the honorable mention of the portuguese of theatre critic association and the golden globe, for her perfomance in Farse by Raúl Brandão directed by Luis Castro (2015).

As a stage director she signs the direction and adaptation os The Waves by Virginia Woolf (2013) and the co-criation of Orlando from the same author. In 2018 she staged Limbo with an international cast.