Daniela Ruah

It's a birthmark called nevus of Ota. It covers the whole white of my eye and darkens it. The square of the eye, the white part, is completely dark on my right eye, not just the iris.

There's no better training than working on a soap opera because of the amount of hours, the amount of pages you do a day are unbelievable. It's the best training I had in terms of discipline.

I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.