{"id":373617,"date":"2025-12-26T19:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373617\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:48:12","slug":"morena-baccarin-was-once-natalie-portmans-understudy-more-fun-facts-about-the-greenland-actress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373617\/","title":{"rendered":"Morena Baccarin Was Once Natalie Portman\u2019s Understudy, More Fun Facts About the \u2018Greenland\u2019 Actress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sci-fi siren Morena Baccarin is once again teaming up with Gerard Butler in the post-apocalyptic survival thriller Greenland 2: Migration \u2014 the sequel to their 2020 production Greenland. In the new flick, the duo and their family are forced to leave their bunker and find a new home, five years after an interstellar comet left Earth in ruins.<\/p>\n

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Morena, 46, told Collider<\/a>, \u201cIt was the hardest shoot of my life. Not the easiest, not the most fun. A really difficult experience. We were outside a lot. We shot in London, and we shot in Iceland. It was physically draining, emotionally draining.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here are 10 things you don\u2019t know about the Stargate SG-1 alum.<\/p>\n

1. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1979 \u2014 three years after her actress mother, Vera Setta, played a character named Morena in the movie O Vampiro de Copacabana.<\/p>\n

2. Unsurprisingly, she\u2019s fluent in Brazilian Portuguese, which was her first language.<\/p>\n

3. She moved to New York City with her family at age 10.<\/p>\n

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4. Morena attended New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, where she was classmates with her future Homeland castmate Claire Danes.<\/p>\n

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5. While studying drama at the Juilliard School, she was Natalie Portman\u2019s understudy in a New York Shakespeare Festival production of The Seagull.<\/p>\n

6. She served as maid of honor at the 2016 wedding of her Firefly costar Jewel Staite to Charlie Ritchie.<\/p>\n

7. She\u2019s gotten hitched twice \u2014 to filmmaker Austin Chick, who she divorced in 2016, and current hubby Ben McKenzie, her costar on Gotham.<\/p>\n

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8. Breakfast is her favorite meal of the day, and she once admitted to Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/a> that she\u2019s a \u201cbig fan\u201d of eggs over easy, toast and coffee.<\/p>\n

9. An avid wine lover, she enjoys visiting California\u2019s vineyard-rich Sonoma County.<\/p>\n

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10. If she wasn\u2019t working as an actress, she might have chosen to pursue a career as a writer \u2014 or an astronomer.<\/p>\n

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