Rebecca Dayan then moved to New York City where she took up screen acting.
13 Facts About Rebecca Dayan
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Rebecca Dayan is best known for portraying Elsa Peretti in the 2021 Netflix miniseries Halston.
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Rebecca Dayan was born on the French Riviera in 1984.
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At home in the south of France, Rebecca Dayan would put on small shows for friends, and was introduced to many films and artists by her culturally-focused mother.
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In Paris, Rebecca Dayan began modeling and working in fashion design as an assistant at Sonia Rykiel, and she has modeled for Karl Lagerfeld and Ellen von Unwerth.
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Rebecca Dayan told WWD that pursuing acting as a second career felt risky, but she had her family's support.
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Rebecca Dayan's first acting roles were small parts in From Paris with Love, Limitless, and Celeste and Jesse Forever, released between 2010 and 2012.
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Rebecca Dayan then had her first major acting role, starring as supporting character Sister Emanuel in the 2017 film Novitiate, about young nuns, with Margaret Qualley and Dianna Agron.
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Rebecca Dayan portrayed French actress Sarah Bernhardt in the 2020 Nikola Tesla biopic Tesla.
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In 2021, when it was released on Netflix, Rebecca Dayan was working on a feature she had written and hoped to create.
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Rebecca Dayan starred in an episode of the spin-off series American Horror Stories.
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Rebecca Dayan uses various mediums to raise awareness of maternal mortality in the United States, and women's health generally.
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Rebecca Dayan has since produced the documentary Born Free on the subject and started the non-profit Mother Lover.