Debby was born and raised in Basel, Switzerland.Graduated with honors from College for social work and after working in a café and a pet store, she felt the urge to take the chance and follow her dre ...Show More
Debby was born and raised in Basel, Switzerland.Graduated with honors from College for social work and after working in a café and a pet store, she felt the urge to take the chance and follow her dream: To go to America.With a return ticket in her luggage to Switzerland she arrived in Los Angeles in July 2009. After studying and perfecting her English for 4 months in Westwood, she decided to use her last 2 months to visit an acting school. It wasn't long until she found the prestigious Drama School Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Hollywood. She enrolled for one term which ended up becoming a full time 2 year program from which she graduated in 2011.With the knowledge, experience and new found passion for acting she got through her studies at Stella, she was ready to jump into this crazy pool of Acting.Since then she has been cast as the Lead or Supporting Actress in numerous Short and Feature Films, two of them will premier in the next weeks and be submitted to major film festivals, she appeared in a Webisode called 'Ghost Ghirls' that is produced by Jack Black and will air on SYFY, was featured in Blockbusters like 'J. Edgar' with Leonardo DiCaprio or most recently in 'Gangster Squad' with Ryan Gosling and Sean Penn. She also had the opportunity to be a spokesperson and testimonial for a new product line from Proactiv which is launching right now. Debby has appeared and gained enormous experience on sets like 'Glee', 'The Glee Project', 'Teen Wolf' and the Sitcom 'Dog with a Blog' amongst others.She will be forever thankful for one of her teachers at Stella, Tim McNeil, who believed in her and cast her as the Lead female in their Final Playproduction of 'Angels in America' written by Tony Kushner. To work on a complex, moody and difficult character like 'Harper' helped shape her into the actress she is today.Now being a member of the most important Acting Union, SAG-AFTRA, and being signed with an agent and manager, doors have opened up for her and her future is filled with opportunities. Hide
