Morena Silva de Vaz Setta Baccarin, better known as Morena Baccarin, is a Brazilian-American actress who plays Beatrice Baudelaire in Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Biography[]
Morena Baccarin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to actress Vera Setta and journalist Fernando Baccarin. Her uncle was actor Ivan Setta. Morena has Italian and Brazilian Portuguese ancestry. She moved to New York at the age of 10, when her father 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 Seagull" 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.[1]
Filmography[]
Film[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Perfume | Monica | |
| 2001 | Way Off Broadway | Rebecca | |
| 2002 | Roger Dodger | Girl in Bar | |
| 2004 | It's Always Sunny on TV | Carmen | |
| 2005 | Serenity | Inara Serra | |
| 2007 | Sands of Oblivion | Alice Carter | |
| 2008 | Death in Love | Beautiful Woman | |
| 2008 | Stargate: The Ark of Truth | Adira | |
| 2008 | T Takes: Room 111 | The Guest in Room 111 | Short |
| 2008 | T Takes: Morena Baccarin | The Guest in Room 111 | Short |
| 2009 | Stolen | Rose Montgomery | |
| 2011 | Look Again | Allison | |
| 2014 | Back in the Day | Laurie Miller | |
| 2014 | Son of Batman | Talia al Ghul | |
| 2014 | Warriors | Tory | |
| 2015 | Spy | Karen Walker | |
| 2016 | Batman: Bad Blood | Talia al Ghul | |
| 2016 | Deadpool | Vanessa | |
| 2018 | Deadpool 2 | Vanessa | |
| 2018 | Elliot the Littlest Reindeer | Corkie | |
| 2019 | Ode to Joy | Francesca | |
| 2019 | Framing John DeLorean | Cristina Ferrare | |
| 2019 | To Your Last Death | Gamemaster | Voice |
| 2020 | Waldo | Lorena | |
| The Good House | Rebecca McAllister | ||
| Greenland | |||
| 2020 | Tropico | Lucia / Lea |
Television[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-2003 | Firefly | Inara Serra | |
| 2003-2004 | Still Life | Maggie Jones | |
| 2005-2006 | Justice League Unlimited | Black Canary / Dinah Lance / Edgar Mandragora | |
| 2006 | The O.C. | Maya Griffin | |
| 2006 | Kitchen Confidential | Gia | One Episode |
| 2006 | How I Met Your Mother | Chloe | One Episode |
| 2006 | Justice | Lisa Cruz | One Episode |
| 2007 | Las Vegas | Sara Samari | One Episode |
| 2006-2007 | Stargate SG-1 | Adira | |
| 2007 | Heartland | Nurse Jessica Kivala | |
| 2008 | Dirt | Claire Leland | One Episode |
| 2008 | Numb3rs | Lynn Potter | One Episode |
| 2009 | Medium | Brooke Hoyt | One Episode |
| 2010 | The Deep End | Beth Bancroft | One Episode |
| 2009-2011 | V | Anna | |
| 2011 | Batman: The Brave and the Bold | Cheetah | One Episode |
| 2012-2013 | The Good Wife | Isobel Swift | |
| 2011-2013 | Homeland | Jessica Brody | |
| 2014 | The Red Tent | Leah / Rachel | |
| 2011-2014 | The Mentalist | Erica Flynn | |
| 2019 | A Series of Unfortunate Events | Beatrice Baudelaire | |
| 2015-2019 | Gotham | Leslie Thompkins | |
| 2019 | In Treatment | Sofia Callas | One Episode |
| 2014-2019 | The Flash | Gideon | |
| Home Invasion | Casie |
Gallery[]
Behind the Scenes[]
