Baccarin landed her first movie role in the improvised fashion world comedy Perfume ( 2001 ).

Baccarin appeared with Natalie Portman and understudied for her role in the acclaimed Central Park production of The Seagull.

Staite played the role of head medical doctor Jennifer Keller in the Stargate SG-1 spinoff Stargate Atlantis, making her the third actor from the Firefly series to move on to appear in a Stargate series ( the first being Adam Baldwin, who had a brief role as a colonel in the Stargate SG-1 Season Seven episode " Heroes ", and the second being Morena Baccarin, who played Adria, the main villain in the tenth season of SG-1 ), and the second to take a recurring role.

Morena Baccarin (, born June 2, 1979 ) is a Brazilian American film and television actress best known for roles in several American science fiction television series: as Inara Serra in the series Firefly and the follow-up film Serenity ; as Adria in the series Stargate SG-1 and the follow-up film Stargate: The Ark of Truth ; and as Anna in the 2009 version of the series V. She currently co-stars as Jessica Brody in the Showtime series Homeland.

In August 2010, it was announced that Badler would be joining the series as a new character named Diana, the mother of the Visitors ' evil leader Anna ( Morena Baccarin ).

In May 2009, Baccarin made her off-Broadway debut in Theresa Rebeck's television satire Our House at Playwrights Horizons in New York City.

* Morena Baccarin – Black Canary ( Dinah Laurel Lance )

Baccarin married director Austin Chick over Thanksgiving in 2011.

In February 2005, Baccarin provided the voice for Black Canary in multiple episodes of the animated series Justice League Unlimited.

Baccarin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Her mother is Brazilian stage and TV actress Vera Setta, and her father is Fernando Baccarin, a Brazilian journalist of Italian descent.

When she was 7, Baccarin moved with her family to Greenwich Village, New York, as her father was transferred to Globo TV's headquarters in the United States, working as editor.

Baccarin attended Public School 41 and New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, where she and Claire Danes were classmates.

That same month, Baccarin joined the cast of the Showtime television drama Homeland, for which she won acclaim for her performance as the conflicted wife of a former prisoner of war.

Inara ( Morena Baccarin ), a " Companion " ( i. e. Courtesan ) who rents one of Serenity's two shuttles, normally travels with them, but she is currently away from the ship on business.

Throughout season 10, Vala has to come to terms with her maternal feelings for Adria ( as adult played by Morena Baccarin ), well knowing from the beginning that Adria embodies a destructive entity that must be fought.

Campbell also landed the lead role of race car driver Hank Cooper in the Disney made-for-television remake of The Love Bug.

Dixit finally attained stardom after a series of consecutive flops when she landed the lead female role of Mohini in N. Chandra's blockbuster Tezaab opposite Anil Kapoor.

Gellar stated that she was screen tested eleven times ( originally auditioning for the role of Cordelia ), before she landed the lead in the 1997 TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, playing a teenager burdened with the responsibility of fighting a number of mystical foes, mostly vampires.

The next year, Hanks landed a lead role on the ABC television pilot of Bosom Buddies, playing the role of Kip Wilson.

After leaving the studios, Nielsen landed the lead role in the Disney miniseries The Swamp Fox, as American Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion.

Rayburn later landed the lead in the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie when Dick Van Dyke left the production to star in his eponymous classic sitcom.

Also, external affairs minister Joe Clark was the first foreign affairs minister to land in previously isolated Ethiopia to lead the Western response to the 1984 – 1985 famine in Ethiopia ; Clark landed in Addis Ababa so quickly he had not even seen the initial CBC report that had created the initial and strong public reaction.

After Olivares built a small lead on the judges ' scorecards, Argüello and Olivares landed simultaneous left hooks in round thirteen.

Once landed, the goddess of love will don the earthly garb of mortal sin, an act that will lead to the New Eve-the Madonna whose purity is represented by the nude Venus.

Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the female lead in the film The Man in the Moon in 1991 ; later that year she made her television acting debut, in the cable movie Wildflower.

After shooting the first season of Edgemont ( a teenage soap opera set at a Vancouver-area high school ) and getting herself an agent, Kreuk landed the lead role of Snow White in a TV movie titled Snow White: The Fairest of Them All.

Sergeant Charles E. Garlick, who had landed at Alessandro Field in a Curtiss JN-4 " Jenny " in November 1917, was selected to lead the advance contingent of four men to the new base from Rockwell Field.

At the end of 1980, Cartwright signed with a talent agency and landed a lead role in a pilot for a sitcom called In Trouble.

Hole was thought to be on hiatus in 1996, due to Love's rising movie career which skyrocketed when she landed a lead role in The People vs. Larry Flynt ( 1996 ).

Convinced that Patton would lead the invasion, Rommel was caught off-guard and unable to react strongly to the Normandy invasion, as Patton's illusory FUSAG had not " yet " landed.

Zeta-Jones subsequently landed a lead role in the film, alongside compatriot Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas.

Walcott dropped Marciano in the first round and steadily built a points lead ; but in the thirteenth, Walcott used his trademark feint to set up his right hand, but Marciano's " Suzie Q " landed first.

In 1564, López de Legazpi was commissioned by the viceroy, Luis de Velasco, to lead an expedition in the Pacific Ocean, to find the Spice Islands where the earlier explorers Ferdinand Magellan and Ruy López de Villalobos had landed in 1521 and 1543, respectively.

He landed many of his most famous roles during the early 1970s with films like the blockbuster comedy MASH ( 1970 ) ( as Major Frank Burns ) and the lead in George Lucas ' THX 1138 ( 1971 ).

A year later she landed the lead female role in the musical La Verdadera Historia de Pedro Navaja ( The True Story of Mack The Knife ), opposite Gilberto Santa Rosa.

In 1992, Lee landed the lead role of Eric Draven, in the movie adaptation of The Crow, a popular underground comic book.

His luck panned out in New York City, where he landed the lead part in Lawrence Langner's and Armina Marshall's play The Pursuit of Happiness for the Theatre Guild in 1930.

Rimes initially began her career in musical theatre, performing in a Dallas, Texas production of A Christmas Carol, and almost landed the lead part in the Broadway production of Annie.

Warwick regrouped and landed in Sandwich in June 1460. in the lead up to the Battle of Northampton, envoys were sent to negotiate, but Buckingham was no longer conciliatory.

Although the three gliders carrying the coup-de-main force targeting the Caen Canal bridge were supposed to land at 00: 20 at LZ X, the lead glider was actually released slightly earlier, at 00: 07, and landed at 00: 15, using a specially-designed parachute which deployed from the rear of the glider ( fitted to compensate for heavily laden troopers ) to slow its speed and ensure it was not destroyed by the impact.