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Daniela Sea plays
Moira/Max Sweeney, a transgender computer whiz from Oklahoma who follows
Jenny to L.A. and is currently transitioning from female to male. Max
can be found in seasons 3 and 4 of The L Word.
Daniela was born in 1977 to
artist/surfer/hippie parents and raised on the shores of Malibu, California. When she was three years
old, her father came out as gay. Her stepfather taught her to surf at the
age of 6 and moved the family to Hawaii so they could enjoy better surfing.
By the age of 12, Sea had taken a job at a biker bar, serving pitchers of
brew. At age 16 she travelled to San Francisco and joined the
punk/feminist/artist space Gilman Street Project in Berkeley, CA. She
studied improv acting in Laney College and was in several punk rock bands,
including The Gr'ups and Cypher in the Snow.
Daniela left home at age
sixteen. She was seeking not only different ways that other people live, but
also different ways she could live in the world. She hitchhiked through
Turkey and Eastern Europe, herded goats in abandoned villages in Italy,
hiked for a month through India’s Rishekesh while drinking water from the
Ganges and collecting wild plants for food, and performed as a fire juggler
with a traveling circus in Poland. She spent years with the same tribe doing
performances on the streets of Europe, traveling by foot, living off the
earth and cooking over open fires. At one point in her world travels,
she lived in India for eight months as a man.
After Daniela returned from Europe, she moved to New York City. She decided
to re-enter the acting world, and gave an audition tape to a friend who
worked on The L Word's writing staff. Sea then got a call at her
restaurant job in New York and was asked to fly to Los Angeles for an
audition. She was then offered to perform the role of Moira Sweeney.
Daniela is as much a philosopher
as an actor. Her years of wandering, traveling and living in villages and
cities in Western and Eastern Europe and Asia have cultivated a way of life
and unique relationship to the world that is undeniable in her eyes when we
watch her.
She can also be seen in John Cameron Mitchell’s ("Hedwig and the Angry
Inch") upcoming feature film, “Shortbus,” which swept the Cannes Film
Festival in 2006, as well as Jamie Babbitt’s “Itty Bitty Titty Committee.”
This actor is busy bringing her eccentric life experiences to the screen.
Daniela collaborates with Capital b (the Bitch half of Bitch and Animal) on
their film/theatrics/music project, “The Exciting Conclusion.”
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Interesting Facts
**Sea is not Daniela's birth surname. She changed it to Sea to reflect her
love of the ocean** **Daniela Sea, and Leisha Hailey (Alice) are the only
out lesbians in The L Word ensemble cast** **Daniela is an actress,
musician, performance artist and used to be circus juggler.**
**Daniela can play the accordion, guitar and penny whistle.**
**In the circus, she performed as half-man, half-woman in a half dress/half
tuxedo costume** **Daniela's nickname is Little Prince, her fairy name.**
**Daniela appeared in the video for Bright Eyes' "First Day of My Life" with
girlfriend Bitch** **Daniela has shared magazine covers with her
girlfriend Bitch on Go NYC and Velvetpark** **Daniela has also appeared on
the covers of Curve, Girlfriends, and Diva magazines**
**Sea studied acting at Laney college in Oakland, California.**
**Daniela publishes her own books of poetry.**
**Daniela uses the pronoun "ze" to refer to gender-ambiguous persons (like
herself)**
**Daniela performed as Little Prince at the 2005 Gay Pride Parade in San
Francisco**
**Daniela considers Vandana Shiva, Judy Bari and Arthur Rimbaud her role
models.**
**As a punk rocker, Daniela and her band cross-dressed.**
**Daniela would like to make her own films.**
**Daniela was chosen by
Paper Magazine
as one of 2006’s most beautiful
people.**
**Daniela was chosen for Out Magazine's top 100 men and women of
2006.**
**Daniela is afraid of
being famous.**
**Daniela can speak Polish.**
**Daniela has performed on stage with Bitch and the Indigo Girls.**
**Daniela was featured in the
Out 100 TV Special on LOGO.**
**Daniela is 5'10".**
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