Acting
Sep 10, 1977
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Danni Suzuki
Acting
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.
Feature Films (9)
After thirteen years of engagement, the boring sex life of Rui and Vani is limited to one intercourse every other week. They decide to seek excitement with a threesome and they decide to invite Vani's cousin Silvinha to participate late night, but an accident interrupts their game. Rui and Vani unsuccessfully spend the night searching for for companion of a bisexual woman.
So Normal 2: The Craziest Night Ever
Manuela (Nathalia Dill) is a beach volleyball teacher, determined, objective and self-confident, always ready for fight. She never guided her happiness to a relationship and never planned to get married. But one day, an unexpected encounter takes place and she meets Leo (Marcos Veras), a successful, charismatic, extremely seductive, although very romantic, pediatrician. The two fall in love and start living a life together, but a disagreement cause their separation. During the fights and moments of nostalgia, and with the help of the manipulative Esther (Totia Meirelles), Manuela's mother, they will find out why they are inseparable.
Um Casal Inseparável
Luiz Mario, a São Paulo night-club impresario and a classic "bon vivant", is also an avid collector of love affairs. He is surrounded by all types of women, with whom he has torrid flings, but he is never able to emotionally involve himself. Until one day, while passing by Rio de Janeiro, he falls head-over-heels for the carioca Malu, who practically runs him over on her bike while riding down Leblon's beach bike path. The couple's fervent romance is abruptly thrown into disarray when an enigmatic love letter is discovered. From then on, the story between the two lovers is turned upside-down. Luiz Mario is consumed by jealousy and his emotions slowly seep into his relationship, destroying everything.
Malu de Bicicleta
Television & Series (20)
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
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.
Pé na Jaca
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.
Uga-Uga
A couple breaks up but is forced to live in the same apartment together for financial reasons.
Uncoupled in Rio
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.
