Episode 8 | Ray Baptista
b'This week we are Kush Chatting with Ray Baptista. Ray started her acting career at the age of 9 doing musical theater at her home country, Brazil. From the \\u2018Wizard of Oz\\u2019 to \\u2018Beauty and the Beast\\u2019 it didn\\u2019t took long until she scored the role of Miranda in her first Shakespearean play, \\u2018The Tempest\\u2019.\\nSince relocating to NY, she was cast in the feature \\u2019Twice as Strong\\u2019 and was then invited to come back for the \\u2018Twice as Strong\\u2019 series. She worked along side Turkish director Sis Gurdal on her short art film inspired by European art of the 17th and 18th centuries \\u2018Postcards from the Orient\\u2019 and the TV series \\u2018\\xc9migr\\xe9\\u2019, where she got to play a young Brazilian girl victim of sex trafficking, both are set to premier later this year. She can also be seen in the shorts \\u2019The Venus Circle\\u2019 and \\u2018Blink\\u2019. Another project you can see her in is in Trevor Peckham\\u2019s \\u2018Green\\u2019, an arthouse social action/environmental thriller where she plays the role of Mother Nature. Most recently she got cast as the lead in the new Rafael Alvarado\\u2019s film \\u2018The Outsider\\u2019.'