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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1977-09-11

Place of Birth

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Danni Suzuki

Biography

DANNI SUZUKI is an actress, presenter, director, screenwriter, and speaker. She studied directing and acting at NY Film Academy (NY-LA). She holds a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design from PUC-RJ and a Postgraduate degree in Neuroscience from PUC-RS (2024). She is an international speaker, with four TEDx talks, twice a jury member for the International Emmy Awards, and a guest lecturer for the Postgraduate program in Digital Marketing and Influence at PUC-RS. She served as a jury member at the LABRIFF Film Festival in Los Angeles (2017) and in the semi-finals of the International Emmy Awards (2021 and 2024).​ She has established herself as one of the most prominent Asian actresses in her country, performing in soap operas, series, and films since 1998, with a solid career at one of the largest television networks in Brazil (Rede Globo), where she worked for almost 20 years. Her most recent acting work can be seen in the series "Arcanjo Renegado," currently airing on Globoplay, in the series "Desjuntados" on Amazon Prime (BR), in the series "Capoeiras" on Disney Plus, and soon in cinemas in the feature film "Secrets" (premiering in 2024), for which she received a Best Actress nomination at the Marbella International Film Festival in Spain. She made her debut in 2016 as a director and screenwriter with the film "Pulso," which was nominated and awarded for Best Direction, Screenplay, Film, Cinematography, and Acting at various national and international festivals, including the International Festival of "Mar Del Plata" in Argentina, Brazil New Visions Film Fest, "LABRIFF" and "Olympus Film Festival" in LA; it was screened at the Laemmle Theater in Hollywood. She is currently finalizing her documentary feature about refugee children, filmed in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, and the Brazil-Venezuela border. She was the creator and screenwriter of a series on Amazon Prime (Brazil) and a screenwriter for a series on Amazon Prime (USA). As a presenter, she has hosted two seasons of "The Voice Brasil," covered the most important music festivals, hosted daily programs, auditorium shows, and interviews with national and international celebrities. She lived with various peoples from different cultures around the world while filming for Multishow. She is currently filming the second season of the program "New Faces" on E! Entertainment Television, set to premiere in October 2024. She is also working as a voice actress in the animations "Patos" and "Kung Fu Panda 4" for Universal, which will be released in cinemas across Brazil in 2024. A social activist, she has served as an ambassador for the American NGO "Waves for Water" and the international NGO "Make a Wish." She has been running her own social projects for over 26 years, dedicating herself since 2016 to refugee families.

Known for

Young Hearts

Young Hearts

Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.

Young Hearts

Young Hearts

Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.

Que História é Essa, Porchat?

Que História é Essa, Porchat?

Seize the Day

Seize the Day

Helena and Luciana are two supermodels with completely opposite personalities: the first is stormy and spoiled, while the second - being older - is patient and restrained. Their fate changes when Helena becomes involved with Marcos, Luciana's father, an older man recently divorced from a former model, Tereza, who does not accept the end of the marriage.

Uga-Uga

Uga-Uga

An orphaned young man raised in the wild by an indigenous shaman is found by his grandfather and returned to his estranged family, where he finds himself as heir to their wealth.

Bang Bang

Bang Bang

Twenty years after seeing his family decimated by gunmen, Ben Silver returns to Albuquerque to take revenge on the person responsible for the massacre, but falls in love with his rival's daughter.

Pé na Jaca

Pé na Jaca

The hypochondriac lawyer Arthur, the model Maria, the religious Elizabeth, the hardworking Guinevere, and the womanizing personal trainer Lancelotti reunite after 25 years in the fictional town of Deus me Livre, in the interior of São Paulo. Determined to correct past mistakes and start their lives anew, they end up rekindling old flames. This is the main plot of Pé na Jaca, which, starting with the reunion of the five childhood friends, shows a frantic hunt for fortune, seasoned with hilarious romantic entanglements.

Ciranda de Pedra

Ciranda de Pedra

In São Paulo, in 1958, Natércio, Laura, and Daniel form a love triangle. Laura is the mother of Virgínia, Daniel's legitimate daughter, but raised as Natércio's heir.

Sandy & Junior

Sandy & Junior

Two high school students have a life of flirting, misadventures and friendship with a group of friends.

The Voice Brasil

The Voice Brasil

Coaches are tasked with finding Brazil's newest voice.

Renegaded Archangel

Renegaded Archangel

Mikhael is a sergeant in charge of BOPE, always on dangerous missions in Rio de Janeiro. But after getting involved in a controversial operation that culminated to a slaughter, he is transferred to a police unit at the state countryside.

Acerte ou Caia!

Acerte ou Caia!

Woman on Top

Woman on Top

Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, "Woman on Top" is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. Meet Isabella, a sultry enchantress born with the special gift of melting the palates and hearts of men everywhere. When she decides to break free from her rocky marriage and the stifling kitchen of her husband's restaurant in Brazil, she spirits off to San Francisco in pursuit of her dreams of a real culinary career.

Capoeiras

Capoeiras

Veneno and Noivo are capoeiristas who grew up as brothers, but a brutal crime separated them. Years later, their paths cross: Veneno lives in the underworld of clandestine fights while Noivo protects Ventania, the daughter of his murdered master, and tries to recover what was lost between him and his friend. In the ring and in life, they'll have to decide how far they're willing to go to settle the past.

Uncoupled in Rio

Uncoupled in Rio

A couple breaks up but is forced to live in the same apartment together for financial reasons.