Nanda Ziegler
- Actress
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
- Producer
![Joseph, son of Israel (Jacob) and Rachel, lived in the land of Canaan with eleven brothers and one sister. He was Rachel's firstborn and Israel's eleventh son. Of all the sons, Joseph was loved by his father the most. Israel even arrayed Joseph with a "long coat of many colors".[1] Israel's favoritism toward Joseph caused his half brothers to hate him, and when Joseph was seventeen years old he had two dreams that made his brothers plot his demise. In the first dream, Joseph and his brothers gathered bundles of grain. Then, all of the grain bundles that had been prepared by the brothers gathered around Joseph's bundle and bowed down to it. In the second dream, the sun (father), the moon (mother) and eleven stars (brothers) bowed down to Joseph himself. When he told these two dreams to his brothers, they despised him for the implications that the family would be bowing down to Joseph. They became jealous that their father would even ponder over Joseph's words concerning these dreams. (They saw their chance when they were feeding the flocks, the brothers saw Joseph from afar and plotted to kill him. They turned on him and stripped him of the coat his father made for him, and threw him into a pit. As they pondered what to do with Joseph, the brothers saw a camel caravan of Ishmaelites coming out of Gilead, carrying spices and perfumes to Egypt, for trade. Judah, the strongest, thought twice about killing Joseph and proposed that he be sold. The traders paid twenty pieces of silver for Joseph, and the brothers took Joseph's coat back to Jacob, who assumed Joseph had been killed by wild animals. The text of the biblical story is muddled over who sold Joseph into slavery - which of the brothers, Reuben or Judah, and whether he was sold to Midianite traders or Ishmaelite traders. What is clear is that Joseph was sold to serve Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh's guard.[2] While serving in Potiphar's household, Yahweh was with Joseph so that he prospered in everything he did.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNGMxOTcwNGUtZWQzOC00NmRlLWE4NDEtOGM0MDBmNDc5MDhmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXRyYW5zY29kZS13b3JrZmxvdw@@._V1_QL75_UX500_CR0,0,500,281_.jpg)
Nanda Ziegler (born Joelma Fernanda Gomes da Silva in Juiz de Fora, Brazil) is a multifaceted artist, writer, and entrepreneur whose career bridges television, literature, and technology. For over fifteen years, she was contracted with Record, Brazil's second-largest commercial television network and one of the world's largest free-to-air broadcasters, where she gained widespread recognition through her performances in telenovelas and series.
Her ancestry traces back to the German-Jewish community of Sulzfeld, Baden-Württemberg, while her upbringing in Brazil shaped her spiritual and artistic sensibilities. Although raised in Catholic traditions, Ziegler developed a profound spiritual worldview, permeating her creative work with philosophical and existential depth.
At PUC-Rio (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), Ziegler specialized in Narrative Cinematographic Structure, expanding her storytelling abilities beyond performance into writing and conceptual development. This academic foundation nurtured her evolution from actress to writer and thinker. Her work interrogates society's illusions, prejudices, and affective values, often reflecting on the silences and contradictions in human behavior.
In 2017, Ziegler relocated to California, positioning herself at the intersection of art, entertainment, and technology. There, she deepened her artistic practice while launching visionary projects:
Her memoir, Love Beyond the Ordinary, which explores free expressions of love that transcend convention and reveal the transformative power of inner listening and authentic connection; and Freeexp (Free Expression), a blind-dating application she conceived to reimagine human connection through writing, voice, and art, offering a platform where love, friendship, and business encounters emerge from authentic, free creative expressions.
Ziegler's trajectory embodies the rare fusion of artistic tradition with digital innovation. She maintains her roots in storytelling while pursuing new frontiers of human connection in the 21st century.
