Morena Baccarin

 Morena Baccarin was the daughter actress Vera Setta, and Fernando Baccarin, a journalist. Her uncle was an actor Ivan Setta. She's of Italian and also Lebanese and Portuguese/Brazilian descent. She moved to New York at the age of ten years old, after her father was moved to the city. She went to the LaGuardia High School of Music and Performing Arts as well as the Juilliard School.Staying in New York she, worked in the theater - particularly in the Central Park production of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" where she also played Natalie Portman's understudy - and appeared in several movies. Following her performance as Roger Dodger in Roger Dodger 2002, she moved to Los Angeles to meet Joss Whedon. She was cast as a character in the short-lived sci-fi show Firefly 2002. Since then she has rarely been off our TV screens