Sardà was one of the country's leading actresses both onstage and onscreen. A theatre actress, announcer and theatre director, she was extraordinarily versatile in all settings. She was capable of making audiences laugh out loud or cry their hearts out. Engaging, tender, acerbic and disagreeable... She won two Goyas as the best supporting actress for ‘¿Por qué lo llaman amor cuando quieren decir sexo?’ (1994) and ‘Sinvergüenza’ (2002). She was also awarded the Golden Medal from the Spanish Film Academy in 2010, the Feroz Honorary Award in 2016 for her career and the Gaudí Lifetime Achievement Award.
She started out performing at the amateur theatre in the neighbourhood of Horta. She made her professional debut in 1962 with the play ‘Cena de matrimonios’ at the Teatre Guimerà, and she began to exploit her comical side with the Companyia Catalana de Vodevil founded by Elena Jordi in 1914. She has performed in plays directed by Josep Maria Benet i Jornet and Lluís Pascual, among others. In the cinema, she performed in more than 50 films and worked with Ventura Pons, Luís García Berlanga, Iciar Bollaín and Pedro Almodóvar.
She was a theatre, TV and film actress, announcer and theatre director. She had a prolific career in which she cultivated all registers and received many awards, including two Goyas.