Growing up in Oakland, Daniella Pineda never dreamed about becoming an actress. She was consumed with so many different interests—art, journalism, comedy and sociology, to name a few—that the very notion she’d some day be doing an interview from the set of an upcoming blockbuster film and discussing her role in the long-awaited liveaction adaptation of “Cowboy Bebop” was simply not fathomable. Yet, here we are.
After graduating from Mills College with a degree in sociology/radio journalism, Pineda moved across the country to New York City with the intention of learning how
