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Daniela Ruah

Daniela Ruah

American-Portuguese actress and film director

Jun 19, 2026

1:42
I bet that's-
1:42
... part of the family now.
1:43
But what impressed me the most when it all started, at least for me, was it was to get here and meet the entire team and realize that everybody here is not necessarily somebody who works in production or entertainment.
1:57
They're doing this because they are the children or grandchildren of Portuguese, you know, immigrants who came to the US.
2:04
And they're doing this because they love their culture.
2:05
They wanna keep their language alive.
2:06
They wanna keep their, the, the music alive, um, and to promote other sort of Luso, right, Portuguese-
3:51
Isn't it like-
8:46
Oh, nice.
8:46
And, and we really hit it off.
8:48
He was such a lovely person.
8:50
And he said, "Do you have representation?" And I said, "No, I'm looking." He said, "Okay." And that was kind of it.
8:55
And then about a few weeks later, uh, I got a call from, uh, my agency, and they said, "Hey, this agent wants you to come in and, and sit with her." And, and I did, and, and it was a love story after that.
9:07
Like, we're still together after [laughs] 18 years.

18 MINS LATER

27:15
Yeah.
27:15
Um, and, uh, yeah.

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