When she is not busy filming the series “Astrid and Raphaëlle”, actress Sara Mortensen enjoys her free time between two countries.
At 45, actress Sara Mortensen is going through a great professional period. The one who was revealed to the general public by her role in the cult PAF soap opera, More beautiful lifehas played the character of Astrid Nielsen for 6 seasons already in Astrid and Raphaëlleon France 2. But the star also knows how to make time for herself.
Sara Mortensen lives between two countries “as a dual national”
Interviewed by the magazine 7 Days TV on the sidelines of the broadcast of the new season of her series, in which she stars opposite Lola Dewaere, the actress revealed how she spends her free time. “I divide myself between Normandy, my haven of peace, and Norway, where I own a chalet in a nature reserve with my brother.“, she confided. And Sara Mortensen, daughter of the Norwegian actress Elisabeth Mortensen, added: “As a dual national, I remain attached to my two cultures. We must not forget where we come from to know where we are going.”
Invited in 2025 by TelematinSara Mortensen had also admitted that Norwegian is “his heart language”. The opportunity for her to recount a touching little personal anecdote that occurred after the birth of her son Aksel. “Even when I gave birth, French didn’t come out, I only spoke Norwegian to my child“, she confided on the set of the France 2 morning show.
Sara Mortensen fan of Normandy: “I have zero neighbors, it’s delicious“
The actress had already had the opportunity in the past to talk about her life in the provinces, she who was born in Paris but made Normandy her home. “I have a house in the countryside in Normandy which is a kind of refuge that I love, which is at the end of a lost path in the middle of nothing, I have zero neighbors, it’s delicious“, she joked to Gala.
And if Sara Mortensen chose this corner of France, it is because her father lives there but also for practical reasons. “I wanted to stay close to Paris for my business trips, but the most important thing for me was to find a ‘haven of peace’, where I can recharge my batteries, reconnect with nature, in the middle of nothing“, she added in an interview for Western Trend.
