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Daniela Sea

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Daniela Sea
Actress/Musician
Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Shortbus, L Word Season 4
Showtime Winter 2007


***PRESS RELEASE***
River Phoenix, that's the other actor that comes to mind when Ilene Chaiken, creator of The L Word, thinks of Daniela Sea. There is a depth to her that you can't quite put your finger on and an irresistibility that is undeniable. In the show¹s forthcoming third season, beginning January 8, Daniela plays what is sure to become one of the most talked about TV characters in 2006 , one that no other television show has dared to portray and Showtime is guarding until the show begins. Ilene saw something in Daniela that made her the clear choice for the type of role most actresses wait a lifetime for. John Cameron Mitchell saw the same thing when he cast her in his new film Shortbus (premiering Spring 2006) and in videos for Bright Eyes and the Scissor Sisters.

Daniela embodies the wayward wind, an outsider that always seems at home though never staying in one place. Born and raised in Malibu, she left home at age 16 for the legendary punk/artist/feminist space Gilman Street Project in San Francisco. There, she formed a band , The Gr'ups, with Matt Freeman of Rancid/Operation Ivy ,whose singles are also being re-released in 2006. While there, she also made a short animated film with Miranda July. She went from Gilman Street to Eastern Europe where she traveled extensively as part of a traveling circus. This eventually took her to India where she lived as a man for the better part of year!

Some of today's most exciting filmmakers are latching onto Daniela Sea. From the pioneering L Word to Shortbus, she is central to some of 2006's most anticipated films and TV shows. From Gilman Street to the silver screen, Daniela has always been crafting a unique career from the underground up.

***PRESS REVIEWS***
People Magazine
"Sea plays the part with a welcome lack of fuss. (She's) most intriguing...like one of those Richard Avedon portraits of dusty American outsiders. But she's also angularly beautiful and sometimes looks like a young Charlotte Rampling."

Paper Magazine
Daniela Sea, the new butch on Showtime's lesbian drama The L Word, has come up with a pronoun to refer to people like her and her character, who blur genders. It's "ze," she says. "It's the new pronoun. It doesn't mean he or she. It's cool." Long before she brought her sexually ambiguous Moira/Max character into millions of households, Sea performed for much smaller crowds as a half-man, half-woman in the streets of Poland as part of a traveling circus. "I had this whole outfit I made, one side being a gown and the other a tuxedo," she recalls with a laugh. The Malibu native has lived much of her life as a nomad -- Sea left home at 16 -- but now she lives on the Upper West Side with her musician girlfriend, Bitch, and says it's nice to be more permanent.

Next she'll be seen in John Cameron Mitchell's film Shortbus; she's also playing guitar on tour this spring with punk band the Gr'ups; and she's just starting to work on a film in L.A. with director Jamie Babbit (But I'm a Cheerleader). Eventually, she wants to make her own films, but she says being famous has always been her worst fear. "The only way I can accept it is thinking about the art I want to make and that I will suffer if I don't make that art."

***NEWS***
Daniela Sea in Out Magazine
Daniela has been chosen for Out Magazine's top 100 men and women of 2006. Pick up the December issue out now!

***LINKS***
Daniela Sea (official)