Daphne Zuniga

Daphne Zuniga belongs to a generation of actors who quietly mastered both film and television without ever chasing the spotlight too hard. From The Sure Thing to her long run on Melrose Place, she brought a grounded intelligence that kept her from being just the pretty lead. The UCLA training shows in the precision of her choices. What I admire most is her later move into directing, the sign of a performer who wanted to understand the whole machine. She is the kind of actress whose presence simply tightens a scene, and that durability is undervalued.

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Name (English)

Daphne Zuniga

Name (Japanese)

ダフネ・ズニーガ

Reading

だふね・ずにーが

Born

October 28, 1962 (age 64)

Origin

San Francisco, California, United States

Occupation

television actor / actor / film actor / stage actor / film director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Tiger

High school

Berkeley High School

University

University of California, Los Angeles

• Official sitehttp://www.daphnezuniga.net/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/daphnezuniga/
• Xhttps://x.com/DaphneZuniga
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne%20Zuniga
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%95%E3%83%8D%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BA%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q236204

Tags

• California
• television actor
• actor
• film actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.