Fatima Ptacek is a famous American film actress, voice actress, model. Most of all, the audience is familiar with the voice of Fatima Ptacek - the girl Dasha from the animated series "Dasha the Traveler" speaks in her voice. The actress also starred in the films and TV series "Body Investigation", "Nanny on Call", "Until I Disappear", "Beautiful Life".
Biography and personal life of Fatima Ptacek
Fatima Ptacek was born on August 20, 2000 in New York, USA. Fatima Ptachek's mother Lucia Espinosa was born in Ecuador, in the city of Azogues, worked as an accountant. Father (Jack Ptachek) - American, born in Queens, worked as a detective in New York. His father's ancestors included Norwegians, Western Slavs, Irish and Colombians, and he himself worked as a policeman.
She was engaged in horse dressage. She attended PS 150Q School for Gifted Children in New York. Gymnastics at Lana's Gymnastics Club, ranked thirteenth in New York State. Fatima Ptacek is fluent in Spanish and studied Mandarin Chinese (which she spent five hours every Saturday). She played for the chess team of her school.
Fatima Ptacek is often invited to shoot commercials: she has more than 70 television spots on her account. The actress was opened by the Wilhelmina Models agency, but she is currently working with the Abrams Artists Agency.
The actress lives with her parents in New York. She has not yet acquired a family, the heart of the young beauty is still free. By her own admission, she is in no hurry to arrange her personal life, preferring to focus on her career. For a long time, Fatima Ptacek dreamed of performing at the Olympic Games. Among the plans of the actress - admission to Harvard University, the profession of a lawyer and the election of the first woman president of the United States.
Career
She began her career as an actress in 2006 on the set of the animated feature television series Miss Laura and Hooper. Fatima Ptacek voiced the animated series "Dasha the Traveler", "Sesame Street", starred in small roles in television and feature films. In 2010, she participated in the voiceover of the video game BioShock 2.
She gained fame as an actress, starring in the short film "Curfew" (2012) directed by Sean Christensen, where she played the role of the nine-year-old niece of the degraded hero, who instills in him the desire to live and saves him from suicide. The film won an Oscar for Best Short Fiction Film in 2013 and won awards at 39 international and national film festivals.
Already by 2013 she starred in more than 70 TV commercials (Ralph Lauren, Benetton, The Gap, McDonald's, Pillsbury Toaster Strudels, Bisquick, McCormick. The young model was opened by Wilhelmina Models agency in 2006, but now she collaborates with Abrams Artists Agency.
In 2014, Sean Christensen directed the feature film Until I Disappear, where Fatima Ptacek played the role of the same heroine, but at the age of 11. This film won the Audience Award at the Venice International Film Festival. He was presented at ten more international festivals and received fifteen awards. A fragment of the film with a girl dancing in a bowling alley to the music of the song "Sophia, So Far" by the group "Goodnight Radio", which was written by Sean Christensen himself, being the frontman of the Brooklyn band Stellastarr, gained great popularity, he used this song back in 2012 in the film " Curfew”, and then again - in the movie“Until I Disappear”.
In 2014, she starred in a supporting role in the children's film The Game of Life directed by Ivan Oppenheimer. The role of the main character was played by Una Lawrence.
In April 2016, Fatima Ptachek found herself at the center of a scandal at the private elite school The World School, where the cost of studying reaches $ 40,000 per year, where she studies. A group of schoolchildren, which included Ptachek, was found smoking aromatic mixtures in the school bathroom. The punishment for the actress turned out to be milder than for the other participants in the incident, which angered their parents.
Filmography
- Dasha and friends: adventures in the city (TV series 2014 - …)
- Game of Life (2014)
- Until I disappear (2014)
- Miracle of Spanish Harlem (2013)
- Anything is possible (2013)
- Doras Royal Rescue (TV Movie 2012)
- Now or never (2012)
- Gifted (TV series 2011)
- Body investigation (TV series, 2011 - 2013)
- Babysitter on call (2009)
- Beautiful life (TV series 2009)
- Dear Doctor (TV series 2009 - …)
- Festival "Road Adventure" (TV series, 2008 - …)
- Dasha the traveler (TV series 2000 - …)
- Saturday night live (TV series 1975 - …)
- Sesame Street (TV series 1969 - …)
Social activity
Fatima Ptacek is a volunteer and ambassador for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, an organization dedicated to children with AIDS. Collaborates with Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a charitable foundation that helps terminally ill children fulfill wishes, and other charitable associations.
In 2013, she was named an honorary member of the National Junior Honor Society on the basis of her merits.
