The purpose of this article was to gather and analyze a corpus of two books and two films that have translators and interpreters as protagonists, in order to determine the images of their profession that such representations create. The analysis of the corpus was informed by research into translators and interpreters conducted by Lawrence Venuti (2008), Klaus Kaindl (2016), Michael Cronin (2009), Rosemary Arrojo (2018), Nitsa Ben-Ari (2010) e Dirk Delabastita e Rainer Grutman (2005). Although translation, both written and oral, is an ancient activity, to this day its practitioners remain largely invisible and undervalued in society. The presence of translators and interpreters in films and books, as well as the way they are portrayed in illustrations and photos, undoubtedly contributes to making them a little more visible and to building or reproducing public images of their activity. We consider that such fictional representations, although subjective, are of interest to Translation Studies insofar as they help in the theoretical understanding of translation phenomena, as well as in the evaluation of how translation and its practitioners fit into society and are perceived by it.