Model-turned-actress YaYa DaCosta reportedly nourished movie-star dreams
from the age of four, and in fact gained acceptance to New York's
LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts during
adolescence. Nevertheless, DaCosta soon rejected the arts in favor of a
more practical career as an educator, following in the footsteps of her
university professor father and her school-founder mother. Years later,
after completing boarding school in New England and studying
international relations at the Ivy League Brown University, DaCosta
heeded the prompting of friends who encouraged her, on a whim, to go out
for the reality series America's_Next_Top_Model;
she was accepted, clocked in as a runner-up on the program's third
season, and shortly thereafter secured a contract with the prestigious
Ford Agency, onetime home to such supermodels as Rachel_Hunter and Christie_Brinkley. DaCosta broke through to feature stardom with her role (opposite Antonio_Banderas)
as urban high school student-turned-dancer LaRhette in the drama Take
the Lead (2006), and followed this up with a supporting turn as China
Doll in John_Sayles' period musical drama Honeydripper (2007).
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