EMMY FYC contender / Netflix series lead / actress & activist Sylvia DE FANTI

Hers is an EMMY FYC underdog story, quite unlike any you’ve heard before, because…

A lead in one of Netflix highest-ever rated global series (100/99 on Rotten Tomatoes), Sylvia De Fanti (IMDBPro) in an uncommon, intensely physical,  powerful-female-in-her-40s role:

• Shot almost entirely in her 2^nd language 
• Utilized all 3 of her spoken languages
• Trained hrs each day to master sword fighting, learn combat & weapons, for the first time, and did most of her own stunts 
• Costumer w/ daily prosthetic makeup

A natural beauty, Sylvia is magnificent, formidable, elegant and dangerous as ‘Mother Superion’ on Warrior Nun.  Sylvia’s ‘Superion’ is a character of supreme complexity, tenderness and violent tenacity.  This is deep character work, with exciting action sequences.

People magazine called her ‘One to Watch’.  Marvel Universe & “House of Cards” casting director Julie Schubert says “… she was fabulous …both terrifying and sympathetic.” 

Raised between Panama, Hong Kong & Rome, Sylvia De Fanti is a dual-citizened, multi-disciplined, globally-minded,   accomplished, formally-trained screen & stage actress, who’s worked with some of Europe’s foremost film directors.  Educated at both The Sapienza and The Sorbonne, Sylvia graduated Cum Laude with Masters in both Communication and Cultural Anthropology with an emphasis in Gender Studies writing her thesis on Chaos Theory and Complex Identity.

In Rome, Sylvia is a founder of the #Occupy movement and co-founded Angelo Mai, the Eternal City’s most important Arts center.

Warrior Nun has become a cultural phenomenon with <4100 articles & press mentions in publications like Time magazine, The Guardian and The Economist, Forbes etc., nearly 17M posts (as of June 18) across the social media landscape and a dedicated  73 country fandom which birthed a global network and tactical team of 35 professionals from various trades to assemble the internationally fundraised #savewarriornun movement.  Among their impressive activities are organized events, relentless worldwide publicity/marketing (clapping back at Netflix for the show’s abrupt cancellation, despite the irrefutably impressive numbers) and the erection of 11 billboards across L.A, NY, London, Milan, Tokyo, Phoenix Arizona, a mural in Barcelona and Madrid as their next destination. 

 “There are very few shows of the modern age – if ever – that have captured attention and imagination on a global scale quite like… [Warrior Nun]…” – wegotthiscovered.com

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