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114 || FASHION MAGAZINE || APRIL 2015%u201cI have to say acting has always been what I have always wanted to do. I%u2019ve loved it since I was a kid because it was all fantasy and imagination.%u201d Fortunately for Daniella Alonso, the Puerto Rican beauty hailing from New York, she grew up to fulfill her wish and is now a leading actress in Hollywood. Daniella started her career as a model and commercial actress and transitioned into acting, landing roles in many major television shows and a few movies. Used to being cast as a bit of a tough chic, Daniella exudes confidence in every role and is captivating on screen. Though she may have hit it big, she makes it very clear in her interview with Fashion MOST that she never forgets where she came from and to her, family is paramount. It seems she has an especially close relationship with her grandfather, still attributing the most amazing date she has ever been on to when she was nine years old and her grandfather took her to Coney Island and then City Island for dinner. %u201cI loved him so much and to have that alone time with one of the most incredible and hysterical characters to ever live was priceless and a day I will never forget!%u201d Raised by her grandparents and great grandmother in New York City, Daniella learned the importance of family and what a huge impact a loving, supportive family network has. She reveals that the hardest thing she has ever done is moving away from her family in NYC. %u201cI grew up with a huge, very tight-knit family where my uncles and aunts and cousins were like second mothers and fathers and siblings. Leaving this incredibly loving and supportive family to come to LA on my own without knowing a single person was extremely difficult.%u201d She obviously made it work though, and her determination paid off. Since moving to LA she has landed recurring roles in multiple television shows including Rizzoli and Isles, Covert Affairs, and the role of Carlotta on NBC%u2019s critically-acclaimed television series Friday Night Lights. However, Daniella is still best known for her role as Anna Taggaro on the popular The CW series One Tree Hill and her lead roles in the movies, The Hills Have Eyes 2 and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End. It%u2019s not auditioning for these roles though that makes Daniella nervous these days but rather, %u201cI%u2019m nervous every day because I am a New Yorker who has to drive in LA every day!%u201dShe tells us that she does not really have a routine or method for preparing for a day%u2019s shoot as each day always brings something new with new people and scenarios that happen on set. %u201cI%u2019ve come to realize that what works best for me is to come in open and ready for anything. If I come to set prepared having done all my work beforehand, I feel open and free to let it all go and trust that the preparation is all there and then I can play.%u201d Like play is how she makes her work look, effortless and so real, obviously the ultimate goal of any actor. Most recently, as Dr. Landry de La Cruz in season one of NBC%u2019s The Night Shift, Daniella divulges that, %u201cthe most interesting aspect of playing that role was infusing comedy with drama. I%u2019ve usually just worked on straight up dramas so this was an incredible opportunity to grow and work on the comedy muscle-challenging for sure but so By: Darcy Tharp>>>