Actor / Director Profile

Although she was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Baccarin's moved to New York at the age of 10 when her father, the Italian journalist Fernando Baccarin, was transferred there. She attended the LaGuardia High School of Music and Performing Arts and then the Juilliard School.Staying in New York she worked in the theater - notably in the Central Park production of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagul" where she was also Natalie Portman's understudy - and appeared in several movies. After making Roger Dodger (2002) she moved to Los Angeles where she came to the attention of Joss Whedon who cast her in his short-lived cult sci-fi show "Firefly" (2002). Since then she has rarely been off our TV screens.