Daniela Melchior (; born 1 November 1996) is a Portuguese actress. After beginning her career in her home country, she garnered worldwide attention with English-language debut such as Ratcatcher 2 in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) film The Suicide Squad (2021) and further recognition in Fast X (2023).

Career

2014-2020: Portuguese film and television 
Melchior started her career in 2014 with several Portuguese film and television productions, including Ouro Verde, A Herdeira, The Black Book, and Parque Mayer. She also provided the Portuguese voice for Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman in Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, who is voiced by Hailee Steinfeld in the original English version.

2021–present: Hollywood work
In August 2021, Melchior appeared in her first English-language theatrical film, James Gunn's DCEU film The Suicide Squad, as a unique version of the Batman villain Ratcatcher, Cleo Cazo / Ratcatcher 2, alongside Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena and Viola Davis, marking the first actress from Portugal to play a character in a DCEU film. James Gunn described her as being "the heart of the film", and she has the second longest screen time. 

She appeared in Marlowe directed by Neil Jordan, alongside Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and Jessica Lange. By March 2022, she joined the cast of the tenth Fast & Furious film titled Fast X, Vin Diesel, and The Suicide Squad co-stars John Cena and Michael Rooker, as well as Scott Eastwood, who appeared in Suicide Squad, the predecessor to her DC comics film. In June 2022, she announced that she would collaborate for the second time with James Gunn in his MCU film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. She was the first Portuguese actress to appear in an MCU film. In August 2022, she was cast in Road House, a remake of the 1989 film starring Patrick Swayze.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links 
 
 

1996 births
21st-century Portuguese actresses
Living people
People from Almada
Portuguese female models
Portuguese film actresses
Portuguese television actresses
Portuguese voice actresses