Born in Bahia, Brazil, Daniela Lavender is part of a close knit
30-strong family, at the age of eight she began training in ballet,
jazz, contemporary dance and later studied Flamenco dancing under
Roberto Amaral and Yolanda Arroyo in Los Angeles. She then moved into
journalism and received a degree from PUC University, Drama followed at
Dirceu de Mattos school in Rio de Janeiro, studied English for a year
and then traveled to London. She auditioned for the London
International School of Performing Arts, playing 'Queen Anne' from
Shakespeare's Richard III, and passed the audition in spite of the
language barrier. In 2003 Lavender appeared in the independent film
"Emotional Backgammon" and was awarded "Best Actress" at the Denver
Film Festival. From there she went on to appear in "Ali G Indahouse"
and the BBC series "Longitude", "EastEnders" and "Casualty". Then in
2009 Lavender toured with the British Shakespeare company production of
"A Midsummer Night's Dream", playing Hippolyta and Titania. 2011 saw
Lavender star as "Maria" in a one woman show "A Woman Alone" written by
Dario Fo. Then in 2013 Lavender Pictures her co-owned film company
started the process of developing a slate of scripts including "Taj"
"Zorra" and "Jutland". This spring Lavender will been seen in the role
of "Juliana Santos" in "A Birder's Guide to Everything" which premiered
at the Tribeca Film Festival 2013 and was awarded the Heineken first
runner up audience award, then later in 2014 Lavender will also been
seen as "Mata" in Isabel Coixet's new film "Learning to Drive" and
"Clara" in "Zipper" produced by Darren Aronofsky.
Intrigo: Death of an Author(2018)as Mariam Kadhar
Night Hunter(2018)as Detective Dickerman
Backstabbing for Beginners(2018)as Ruth Zekra Kal
Tut(2015)as Herit
Zipper(2015)as Clara
An Ordinary Man(2017)
