Morena Baccarin

Morena Baccarin: Biography in Details

Who is Morena Baccarin?

Morena Baccarin is a Brazilian-American actress. She is known for her roles in Firefly, Serenity, Stargate SG-1, Stargate: The Ark of Truth, V, Deadpool, & Homeland (for which she received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2013). Baccarin plays the role of Dr. Leslie Thompkins in Gotham.

What are the birth facts of Morena Baccarin?

Baccarin was born on June 2, 1979, in Rio de Janeiro. She is of Italian and Brazilian Portuguese descent.

Her birth name is Morena Silva de Vaz Setta Baccarin. She was born to Vera Setta, an actress, and Fernando Baccarin, a journalist. When 7, she moved with her family to Greenwich Village, New York.

Morena Baccarin: Education History

Morena Baccarin attended Public School 41 and New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, where she and her future Homeland co-star Claire Danes were classmates.

Morena Baccarin later attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts before she entered the theater program at the Juilliard School, where she was in the Drama Division’s Group 29 (1996–2000).

Morena Baccarin: Professional Life and Career

Morena Baccarin landed her first film role in the improvised fashion world comedy Perfume in 2001. This was followed by a lead role in Way Off-Broadway in the same year.

She served as Natalie Portman’s understudy in the Central Park production of The Seagull. The sci-fi drama Firefly (2002) was Baccarin’s first television series. She reprised her role of Inara Serra in the 2005 film Serenity.

From 2003-04, she appeared as Maggie Jones in 6 episodes of the TV series, Still Life. Next year in 2004, she appeared in the TV movie, It’s Always Sunny on TV, as Carmen, a male-to-female transsexual. In February 2005, Baccarin provided the voice for Black Canary in multiple episodes of the animated series Justice League Unlimited.

She next guest-starred in 3 episodes of the TV series The O.C. in 2006. It was announced in April 2006 that Baccarin would be playing the adult version of Adria, a recurring villain in the tenth season of Stargate SG-1. She first appeared in the season 10 episode “Counterstrike” as an adult Adria. Baccarin reprised her role as Adria in the movie Stargate: The Ark of Truth. The same year, she also appeared in Justice, How I Met Your Mother, & Kitchen Confidential.

In 2007, Morena Baccarin played in Las Vegas, Heartland, and Sands of Oblivion. The next year, she appeared in T Takes: Room 111, T Takes: Morena Baccarin, Numb3rs, Dirt, etc.

In May 2009, Baccarin made her Off-Broadway debut in television satire Our House. She landed the lead role of Anna, the leader of the alien Visitors, in 2009–11 series V. In May 2011, shortly following the airing of the show’s second season finale, it was announced that the show would not return for a third season. That same month, Baccarin joined the cast of the Showtime television drama Homeland, for which she received good notices for her role. On July 18, 2013, she was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 2013 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Morena Baccarin has provided voice work for Talia al Ghul in Son of Batman, Batman: Bad Blood; Cheetah in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and, Gideon in the series The Flash.

Morena Baccarin appeared alongside Melissa McCarthy in the 2015 action-comedy, Spy, as the agent Karen Walker. In 2016, Baccarin appeared alongside Ryan Reynolds in the movie, Deadpool, as Vanessa Carlysle.

Morena Baccarin voiced the character of Gamemaster in Malevolent in 2017. Baccarin will reprise her role as Vanessa in the sequel to Deadpool, entitled Deadpool 2, in 2018.

Morena Baccarin: Salary and Net Worth

Morena Baccarin has a net worth of $8 million but her salary is not revealed yet.

Is Morena Baccarin involved in any rumors and controversies?

There were rumors that Baccarin was in a relationship with her Gotham co-star Ben McKenzie, which was later confirmed.

Morena Baccarin: Body Measurements

Morena Baccarin has a height of 5 feet 7.5 inches and weighs 57 kg. Her hair color is black and her eye color is light brown. Her body measurement is 34-24-37 inches and wears a bra size of 32B. She wears a dress size of 8(US). Her shoe size is unknown.

Morena Baccarin: Social Media Profile

Morena Baccarin is active on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. She has over 423.5k followers on her Twitter account, more than 1.5m followers on Facebook, and over 2.7m followers on her Instagram account. She does not use Facebook.

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