“The earth, my village” is a phrase that depicts Claudia Ferri well, as she was born into a multicultural family in Montreal, where Italian, French, English and Arab could be heard at family reunions. It’s no surprise that she be multilingual (English, Italian, French and Spanish) on screen too.

Miss Ferri’s ancestry is equally rich: Irish, Scottish, French and Native American, from her mother’s side and Italian on her father’s side.

The eastern coast of U.S.A. is a familiar scene to her, as many of her childhood summers would see the family traveling down to New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, where they would visit cousins and relatives. Later, her parents built a home and took up residence in Naples, Florida. Claudia was in fact visiting her parents in Naples when a phone call from her agent informed her that she was considered to play opposite Aidan Quinn & Donald Sutherland in “The assignment”, which proved to be her first big break in film...