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birth name: daniella grace marin professional name: daniella marin date of birth: july 2nd 1983 (33) hometown: london, england current residence: calabasas, ca and brookly, ny occupation: actress status: single family: Daniella Grace Marin (born 2 July 1983), known professionally as Daniella Marin, is a British actress living in the states.

Early Life Daniella Grace Marin, known to close friends and family as Dani or Ella, was born to Jeremiah and Jessica Marin, an upper middle class couple settling into their lives in London, England. The couple had never discussed seriously having children, but their daughter, while a surprise, was a welcome addition to the small family. While she was an easy child for her parents to raise, Daniella was a quiet and severely shy young girl which caused many people to believe she had some sort of disability. At a young age, Daniella was placed in therapy to both encourage her to talk and to get to the root of her issues. Her therapist would be the one to introduce acting into her life at a very young age, though it would be many years before she could fully commit to using her active imagination and desire to inhabit other people and worlds as a source of career fulfillment.

Her parents would support their daughters apparent dream to become an actor, but it would put a strain on their family. While in the early stages of her hollywood career, during a pivotal time when she decided she needed to be in LA more than in England, her mother decided she would go with her daughter. This was frowned upon by her father and for a number of years, her parents were legally separated before getting a divorce. Marin takes responsibility for this separation and takes it to heart. She believes that if she had never pursued her career, her parents might still be together.

Career Marin's career begain, in part, during one of her therapy recommended playgroups. Surrounded by likeminded children, Daniella was encouraged to use her imagination to its fullest potential, which included putting on little plays and skits. From there, Marin went on to audition, with the permission of her parents, for small child parts in local theater productions. As she grew into herself, a talent agent attended one of her performances as a teenager and he convinced Marin to begin booking commercials.

In reality, Marin never meant to become a fullfledged actor. She believed her time would be best spent on the stages of community theaters in her hometown, maybe even aspiring to one day perform in the West End. But she never beleived herself to be talented enough to go beyond supporting roles. It was, therefore, a suprise to herself and to her family when she landed her first considerable adult role on the local theater scene. It was a terrifying experience for the young girl, who didn't necessarily relish the spotlight. But she had a work ethic that directors liked and she had a transformative personality. When she was on stage, gone was the girl who was unsure of herself, who had panic attacks in the parking lot of the theater before she walked into rehearsal. On stage, she was someone different. It was this role that attracted the talent agent who would change Marin's life, attending the performance as a spectator and not in any formal or official capacity. After the performance, however, he was compelled to meet the young ingenuie and was immediately charmed by how quiet and gracious she was. He left her his card, but Marin never intended to use it. After several weeks of silence, after the production had closed, the talent agent tracked the director down and basically begged to be put in touch with his young star. When he finally got in touch with Marin it took much more convincing, but he finally got her to agree to sign with him and begin to book other work.

Commercials were a different beast from the theater and Marin quickly expressed her hatred of them. They came to her easily, they were quick and dirty, and casting directors liked her look. But they weren't imaginative. They didn't tell a story. They didn't allow her to lose herself in any real way. Eventually, Marin began to refuse to show up to bookings and her agent, on the cusp of looking like a complete and total fool, began to take Marin down a different road. he started to have her audition for films, and, in the meantime, booked his client for several modeling campagins. Modeling was far preferable to a teenage Marin because she didn't have to speak and she could imagine a world in which the clothing and the makeup and the posing made sense. She could create a world to lose herself in and therefore not be so self conscious. At the same time, going to auditions for films and being rejected time and time again took its toll. For two years, from the time she was sixteen to when she was eighteen, Marin's health was on a steep decline. She stopped eating properly because she was nervous all the time. She had trouble auditioning because she was so worried about what they would think about her. Finally, after collapsing after yet another failed audition, her agent stopped pushing her and allowed Marin to recover. When she felt stronger, she was adament that the only thing she would audition for was the theater. Her insistence would pay off in the form of a role in the West End production of Mrs. Warren's Profession.

Bouyed by her success (and buckelist fullfilling) turn on the West End, Marin would continue to work in the theater. It had a restorative effect on the actress and when her agent came back to her, tentatively, with an audition for a film, she wasn't so quick to turn it down. It didn't hurt that the film was an adaptation of a beloved book, Pride and Prejudice. She agreed to the audition, though she didn't believe anything would come of it. However, after several weeks of waiting, during which Marin claims to have forgotten all about auditioning in the first place, she recevied a call confirming she'd been given the role of Kitty Bennet in the production. Working on Pride and Prejudice would prove beneficial for the young actress, as the familial feeling on set banished any formerly held ideas that movie sets had to be cold places. Working with the group of actors that made up the Bennet family would give Marin confidence to take her next, tentative steps into the acting world.

Following Pride and Prejudice, Marin signed on to a film that she would back out of before principal shooting began. Rumor has it Marin hated the entire process leading up to production of the film and because of that was content to hang up her acting hat and spend the rest of her days either living a "normal" life or working in theater when her agent came back to her with the script for The Devil Wears Prada. Having read the book, Marin was intrigued enough to accept the chance to audition, which she almost, thanks to nerves, didn't end up walking into the building for. However, when all was said and done, she nailed her audition for the role of Emily. While the role was offered to her, Marin was extremely unsure whether or not she could actually accept the role, and it took a phone call and a coffee date with co star Anne Hathaway to convince Marin to accept the project.

Doing The Devil Wears Prada would be beneficial for Marin in many ways, including her unprecedented access to a Hollywood legend who, when not in character and scaring the shit out of her young co stars, imparted wisdom that most young actors would die for. It would shape the way Marin looked at her career, at the scripts she saw come in front of her, and what her criteria for choosing a script and auditioning for it would be. It would also change the way she looked at the industry that scared her and haunted her. She began to take a step back and, in essence, remove herself from the hollywood machine. She had to realize, and continue to realize, that while hollywood was a very particular place, there was plenty of room for people like her, people who wanted to lose themselves rather than be found. She realized very early on that she didn't have to work. She didn't have to take any old script that came her way. She didn't have to audition for everything that her agent said would be a sure bet or would make her look good. Going about her career as a series of sure bets and sure things was going to be the easiest way for Marin to burn out. If she based her career around what other people that was right for her, she'd be no better than the sixteen year old girl who stopped eating because the stress of everything made her sick.

Following The Devil Wears Prada, Marin would audition for and win a role in another book to screen adaptation, this time of Ian McEwan's novel, Atonement. The script, with its utterly heartbreaking reveal at the end, was something that Marin knew she had to be a part of. It would be the second time Marin collaborated with director Joe Wright, and it was Wright's familiarity with Marin's quiet fortitude and her vulnerability that helped her land the role. Kitty and Cecelia were as differnt as night and day, and Cecelia was a far cry from the role of Emily, but Wright had watched Marin day in and day out on the set of Pride and Prejudice and when it came down to it, knew she had what it would take to add the layers necessary to make Cecelia real.

As her career progressed, the vulnerability Marin possessed would tend to work in her favor. Nerves she aways saw as a detriment would turn out to be a driving force behind her auditions and in turn her portrayals of characters. When on screen, Marin would simply disappear the way she had always wanted to, and the character she was tasked to play would shine through, utterly alone and devoid of any pretense.

Marin would always be drawn to women who were troubled in their own way. Whether that was because she seemed to see herself in those women or their problems were so different from her own problems that it was easier to become them, she became accustomed to choosing roles with strong, if flawed, women at their core. To date, Marin believes her most difficult role was that of Anna in Like Crazy because it involved such raw emotion that she often ended a day of filming feeling like she'd been cut open. Playing Anna was also difficult for Marin because she allowed much of her own vulnerability to bleed through to the character, feeling it was a necessary evil in order to get the tone and feel of the film and character just right.

Marin would follow Like Crazy up with another film and role that took its toll on the actress emotionally and physically. Working on Smashed in the role of Kate Hanna almost proved more than Marin could handle. While she remained incredibly close to the cast and crew, who she saw as a support system, Marin withdrew from family and friends and actually turned to drinking to cope with the feeling of utter loneliness that she created for herself. While she in no way went down the same path as her character, she does believe the world in which she lived as Kate influenced her in ways that were dangerous. For the first time since she was a child, Marin sought professional help and continues to see a therapist to this day, and has become an advocate for mental health awareness.

Marin would continue to work steadily, though she tried to keep her projects to a minimum so as not to burn out. She was content to work hard and receive recognition if and when it came to her, but she never looked at her career as a roadmap to critical acclaim or awards. In 2015, however, two things would happen. The first raised eyebrows, as the actress was featured in a role that played completely against type, playing the wife of a champion boxer in Southpaw. While the film seemed, and was, out of the norm for the actress, in interviews she stated that the script was compelling and though her role on screen was small, she felt that she could go a long way in creating a lasting presence throughout the film. It became a passion project for her and she doggedly pursued the role until it was hers. The second was her appearance as Gerda Wegener in the film The Danish Girl, a role that people whispered about and then started to shout about as being Marin's turning point. Marin didn't listen to the gossip or the things people said, and when she was nominated for numerous awards, later winning the Academy Award for her portrayal of Einar's wife, people would proclaim they knew this day was coming, but Marin herself was completely floored.

Marin will next be seen in the hotly anticipated, though often grumbled about, sequel to the 1964 classic, Mary Poppins, playing the title character in Mary Poppins Returns. Marin's casting has been devisive, to say the least, though the actress has earned the seal of approval from the original Mary Poppins herself.

Personal Life Marin has always been the type of actor to hover on the periphery of the hollywood scene. she has neither fully immersed herself in it, nor has she ever fully said she doesn't want the fame. Marin did begin her career on the quiet side, which earned her the mantle of stereotypical ice queen brit that she was loathe to shed for many years. she avoided parties with a practiced air of disinterest. later in her career, as her star began to shine more brightly and people began to take notice, Marin opened up about the anxiety that she said plagues her every day. costars began to corroborate the actress's stories of panic attacks on set, and, the more she was open about her struggles, the more they felt they could defend their costar from the rumor mill that she was difficult to work with, aloof, and stuck up.

Over the years Marin has struggled with an eating disorder and with drinking. Her eating disorder tends to be triggered by extreme stress and she has gotten it under control in recent years, but when she was younger it was a problem. Casting directors who once said she didn't have the look (whatever that meant) for any particular part, began to point out that she was too thin, which thrust Marin into a catch-22. Her drinking, while never developed into classic or destructive alcoholism, is a coping mechanism she actually picked up while filming Smashed. What started as an experiement in trying to get into her character's head, led her to discover something that could shut off the noise.

never one for the hard drug scene that can plague hollywood, marin is no straight laced goody two shoes, she simply knows how to hide her trangressions from the media more well than most.

marin's struggle with the hollywood scene seems to directly contradicther need for acceptance. she has made a living in a world that is based on judging people, for their looks, their talents, everything, and yet she somehow stays in it. it is that need for acceptance that has pushed marin into a number of high profile relationships. these days, the media refers to marin as the taylor swift of the silver screen because she is notorious for getting into a relationship and falling hard and fast for her partner. she is never shy with these relationships, save the often gossiped about relationship with Jackson Overstreet. the media were not aware the couple were a couple until they walked the red carpet for the Southpaw premeire and even then it was joked that it was publicity for the film. Neither Marin nor Overstreet are particularly forthcoming with details about their relationship, whatever it might be.