Morena Silva de Vaz Setta Baccarin, a Brazilian actress who was born on June 2, 1979, is best known for her roles as Inara Serra in the science fiction series Firefly and the movie Serenity, Vanessa in the superhero comedy Deadpool, Jessica Brody in the Showtime series Homeland, Dr Leslie “Lee” Thompkins in the Fox series Gotham, and Elena Federova in the NBC series The Endgame.
She was nominated in 2013 for an Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award for Homeland.
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Morena Baccarin parents: Vera Setta, Fernando Baccarin
Her parents are the actress Vera Setta and the journalist Fernando Baccarin. Baccarin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is of Lebanese, Portuguese, and Italian ancestry.
When Morena was six years old, her grand-uncle, a theatre director in Brazil, who also directed the TV special, gave her acting debut.
When she was seven years old, her family relocated to Greenwich Village, New York, because her father was transferred to work as an editor at the corporate office of Globo TV.
