ABOUT DAPHNE

Daphne recently appeared on the season premiere of Nip/Tuck and is currently filming One Tree Hill. She recently produced and directed a new documentary, The Future We Will Create (now available on DVD), about the fascinating annual TED Conference. Click here to watch a preview!

Last year Daphne completed ABC Family's Beautiful People, a Lifetime movie and the television comedy Christmas Do-Over co-starring Jay Mohr. She began her film career with Rob Reiner's The Sure Thing opposite John Cusack. Then she was cast opposite Lucille Ball in Ball's final performance Stone Pillow. Daphne went on to star in feature films such as Mel Brooks' Spaceballs, Vision Quest, Gross Anatomy with Christine Lahti and Matthew Modine. Zuniga became familiar to millions of viewers as Jo Beth Reynolds on the hit series Melrose Place. Other credits include NBC miniseries' Pandora's Clock and Degree of Guilt, both based on best-selling novels, tv guest spots on Spin City, Stark Raving Mad, Eve and Law and Order, and recurring as Playboy Playmate Shelly Pierce on the NBC series, American Dreams.

She was a founding board member of Earth Communications Office (ECO), an organization that harnesses the power of the environmental movement and the entertainment community. She is devoted to the conservation of our planet, having written articles for Oprah's O magazine and working with such organizations as the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s Waterkeeper Alliance. (Read Daphne's interview with Shape Magazine about her activism). Recently Daphne has focused her efforts on environmental problems in Hispanic communities, where childhood asthma is an epidemic.

She enjoys meditation and supports meditation centers in California and in Massachusetts.

Zuniga is the eldest daughter of a Unitarian minister mother, and a philosophy professor father.