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- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Amara Zaragoza is an actress/writer/director who loves playing music, traveling and riding horses. She is a native of Kansas who moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting after being cast off the street for her first project. One of her first acting jobs was on the longtime WB hit Smallville. That quickly led to multiple television appearances including recurring roles on Gossip Girl and Dirty Sexy Money. Amara has also appeared in several films such as Perfect Stranger with Bruce Willis and Halle Berry and starred in the movie Rez Bomb which earned her a best actress award at the Red Nation Film Awards. She also got to realize her dreams of being an action star on the set of Echelon Conspiracy where she worked alongside Ving Rhames, Martin Sheen and Ed Byrnes. In recent years, Amara has made guest appearances on the CW's Switched At Birth as well as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS. This year she has been working a pivotal role on her second season of CBS All Access's Strange Angel where she plays Joan, the High Priestess of a sex cult.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Colton James
- Feldman's mother is of Oklahoma Shawnee and Purépecha (Michoacan, Mexico) descent. Feldman's father was of German descent.
- In 2015, Feldman was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She decided to ride a horse across the United States in aid of the charity Race to Erase MS, which she documented on her website "And So I Ride". Four months into her journey, she had to give up due to fatigue and health problems. Her sister also has MS.
- Originally named Tamara Feldman, she changed her name after working with an Aztec Medicine man for a month to help her with her Multiple Sclerosis. He urged her to drop the "T" because "Amara" is "beloved" and use her maternal grandmother's last name so the spirits wouldn't know she has MS. So Amara does not have MS, but Tamara does.
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