via TV Guide: ABC’s V has finally arrived and, boy, did the Visitors make one heck of a first impression. While most of the world puts their faith in these new alien friends, Erica Evans (Elizabeth Mitchell) and others come to find out that they’re not all they’re “cracked up to be.” Pulling the strings to keep their dirty little secret is Anna (Morena Baccarin), the Vs fearless and seemingly

via Betty Confidential: Morena Baccarin is no stranger to sci-fi fans. The Brazil-born and New York City-educated beauty, who now calls Los Angeles home, has a rabid following thanks to her short-lived, but cult-classic TV show, Firefly, which later spawned the movie Serenity [both by Joss Whedon]. “Comic Con fans are my kind of people,” laughs Morena, 30, who remembers loving Star Wars and Labyrinth as a kid. “I certainly

via Blastr: Firefly babe Morena Baccarin stars in ABC’s upcoming reboot of the alien-invasion miniseries V as the leader of the so-called Visitors, whose name is Anna. Baccarin wants to make sure you know she’s not the same character as Diana, the guinea-pig-munching bitch queen of the original 1983 miniseries, who was memorably played with campy relish by Jane Badler. Likewise, this V isn’t your parents’ V, but a “re-imagining”

via Variety: ‘V’ character finds trust is way to manipulate masses “There’s no room for improvisation,” says Morena Baccarin of her smallscreen alter ego Anna, queen bee leader of the alien nation on the new ABC sci-fi drama “V” that begins Nov. 3. “It can be really challenging in the sense that while I can’t be robotic, I have to really be very precise with movement and language and know

On TNT’s new drama HEARTLAND, Morena Baccarin plays the romantically entangled nurse Jessica Kivala and has to balance her love affair with leading man Dr. Grant (Treat Williams) and her medical career. Of course, romantic entanglements are nothing new to the attractive young actress and Joss Whedon fans thrilled to watch her match wits with Nathan Fillion on FIREFLY, when she played Inara the courtesan. Baccarin is a charming interview

Morena Baccarin was born in Rio De Janero, Brazil in 1979, but was raised in New York City. She was exposed to the world of acting at a very young age through her mother, Vera Setta, a well-known Brazilian actress who worked on both stage and television. In 1989, Morena and her family moved to Greenwich Village, New York. A few years later she attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High