An exponent of the Porn Art Movement, she was one of Brazil's main sex symbols, especially in the 1970s, having posed nude several times for magazines such as Playboy and Status among the others.

Sandra was a key figure in the sexploitation film genre known as Pornochanchada in Brazil in the 1970s.

[3] Hired by Moacyr Deriquém , she went to work at TV Globo, debuting in the soap opera Assim na Terra Como no Céu, in 1970.

In 1972, director Daniel Filho invited her to play Telma, a character in the soap opera O Bem Amado, which was her first big role.

Sandra died on 4 May 2000, at her home, in Rio de Janeiro, after a respiratory arrest.