Biography

Branca Ferráz has worked in front of the cameras as well as behind the cameras, in the feature film "Petunia", with great cast including Brittany Snow, Thora Birch, David Rasche and Emmy, Golden Globe and Academy Award winner Christine Lahti.

Branca Ferráz was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to actress Olga Danitch and producer Antonio Paulo Ferraz, and comes from a Brazilian-Russian family.

She trained at the renowned American Academy of Dramatic Arts, in New York City (notable alumni include: Hank Azaria, Lauren Bacall, Ann Bancroft, Adrien Brody, Danny DeVito and Anne Hathaway) and at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, a school who's alumni includes Academy Award winners Daniel Day-Lewis and Jeremy Irons - and other noted actors such as: Patrick Stewart, Pete Postlethwaite and Miranda Richardson.

Branca Ferráz has worked around the globe, including countries like her native Brazil, the US, the UK, Canada and Italy. She is also a Cirque du Soleil aerialist with extensive professional background - her specialty apparatus being the Corde Lisse/Rope. Branca Ferráz is also experienced in Tissu/Aerial Silks/Fabric, Lyra/Aerial Hoops, and Trapèze Fixe and Ballant (static and swinging trapeze).

She trained with Cirque du Soleil's André Simard, also performing with Simard's innovative aerial company Les Gens d'R. And she also trained Trapèze Ballant and Aerial Straps technique in Montréal with Cirque du Soleil's coach Victor Fomine, and aerial rope with former Cirque du Soleil aerialists Irena Purschke, Véronique Thibault and Eliane Domanski.

Branca Ferráz can now add Bodybuilder to her many credits.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Daughter of Olga Danitch and Antonio Paulo Ferraz.