Sara Melleri is a Helsinki-based actor, director, writer, teacher and an Artistic Director of the performing arts group Delta Venus. Sara studied acting in the Theatre Academy in Helsinki 2005-2011, and has been working consistently on the stage and in tv & film ever since.

In her works she plays with intimacy and exaggeration. She turns personal stories into a full-blown fantasy, luxury and filth, creepiness and grace. During recent years she has directed POP SLUT (Tampere Theatre Festival, 2014), FATHER FUCKER (Baltic Circle Festival & Q - Theatre, 2016), The Betty Show (Finnish National Theatre, 2021) and Armageddon (directing together with Sonya Lindfors and Elina Pirinen in Espoo City Theatre, 2022) Her works have recently been shown in The National Finnish Theatre, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Baltic Circle Festival and Espoo City Theatre.

She has been working as an actor in many theatres. In film Sara has been acting for example in Marja Pyykkö’s Sisko tahtoisin jäädä (2010), Jonas Selberg Augusténs The Longest day (2020), Hannaleena Hauru’s Fucking with Nobody. From Kikka! (dir. Anna Paavilainen) Sara won a Jussi film award for Best Lead Actor in 2023.