Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite. ”

That's the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that you have no idea about as yourself. So I'm a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can always apply it. It's your little supply bag of creativity. Keep filling it up. ”

No actor has a flawless career, but in the long term, I'd like my name to be synonymous with good quality. ”

I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last. ”

The goal is to work as much as possible in projects I respect and that will help me grow. ”

I was one of the lucky people who found what I loved at a really young age. When I was 16, I got my first job in a Portuguese soap opera, and I realized how much I really loved it. ”

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles. ”

I was born in Boston, and when I was two and a half, my parents moved to Minneapolis. And then from there, when I was five, we moved back to Portugal. But before that, a lot of family members had come to visit us, and we had been back to Portugal many times because my whole family lived there. ”

Early on, my parents noticed an aptitude for being a show-off. I loved attention. I was always saying, 'Watch me do this, watch me do that,' which I now realize with my own kids is a phase that most kids go through. ”

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality. ”