Morena Baccarin

 Morena Baccarin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to actress Vera Setta and journalist Fernando Baccarin. Ivan Setta was her uncle. She is of Italian and also Lebanese and Portuguese/Brazilian descent. She relocated to New York at the age of ten years old, after her father was relocated to New York. She attended the LaGuardia High School of Music and Performing Arts and later the Juilliard School.Staying in New York she, worked in the theater , notably in the Central Park production of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" where she was also Natalie Portman's understudy and played in numerous films. After completing Roger Dodger (2002) she moved to Los Angeles where she came to the notice of Joss Whedon, who starred in his short-lived sci-fi cult series Firefly (2002). Since then, she has never been off our TV screens