Birth Name: Daniela Sofia Korn Ruah
Birth place: Boston, Massachusetts
Date of Birth: 2 December 1983
Race or ethnicity: Jewish Portuguese
Actress.
Ruah’s father was Dr. Moises Carlos Bentes Ruah; her mother, Catarina Lia Azancot Korn. Dr. Ruah was head of the ear, nose, and throat dept. of Boston University Hospital.
Her family returned to Portugal when Daniela was 5. It had … been awhile. The entire Portuguese Jewish Community had been expelled in 1498. Dr. Ruah’s family had been one of the first to return in the nineteenth century.
Daniela’s mother is the daughter of an Ashkenazi Jewish father (born in 1922 in what’s now Wroclaw, Poland) and a Portugal-born Sephardi mother.
Daniela began acting as a teen in Portuguese soap operas. She has a B.A. in Performing Arts from London Metropolitan University. In 07 she moved to New York.
She has dual citizenship, U.S. / Portuguese.
She’s best known to American audiences for her current role as ‘Kensi Blye’ in the CBS series NCIS: Los Angeles.
She first piqued my curiousity on that show for her …unusual appearance. Which I wondered if was a trait of the character or the actress herself:
Daniela is distinguishable by having a left eye that is hazel. And a right eye that is ‘birthmarked’ to appear rather blue-grey.
So beauty is in either eye of the beholder. Definitely.
Source: wikipedia, imbd.com, danielaruah.info
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