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Sofia Pernas is a Moroccan-born actress, who was born in Fes. The actress traveled throughout the world prior to settling in Los Angeles. Pernas, who initially wanted to work as a journalist lived a life that changed dramatically after she was first approached by a model scout and later an agent. The unique style she has is due to her Moroccan mother as well as a Galician father. Sofia Pernas (born 1989) is an actress from Morocco-Spanish living in Los Angeles. Her role is in The Brave. The actress moved to the US at the age of five years old. She was raised there in Orange County. She's multilingual like she has a Moroccan mother as well as a her father from Spain. In order to speak the four languages she's learned Arabic, English Spanish, as well as German. In the beginning, she was planning to pursue a career in journalism and was later scouted by a model agency and then redirected to a career. She appeared as Marisa Sierras on The Young and the Restless as well as on the CW television show, Jane the Virgin with Justin Baldoni and Gina Rodriguez. In NBC's The Brave, she plays Hannah Rivera, a Defense Intelligence Agency employee.