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Camara DaCosta Johnson is from Harlem. She comes from a family with a multi-ethnic history, in addition to English Portuguese owning, French relatives, Spanish and even Japanese. In her veins flows the blood of DaCosta Cherokee, Irish, the inhabitants of Brazil and West Africa. She attended Brown University, specializing in African and international relations. When Yaya took second place in reality TV show “Top Model American-style”, her career did not end, but rather, crawled up the hill. DaCosta starred in different popular commercials. Acting career began in 2005, after she got a guest role - Miss Jenkins - in the TV series “Eve”. Then, along with sex symbol and womanizer Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown and famous Alfre Woodard, DaCosta plays a main role in the dance drama "Catch the rhythm”. In 2009, Dacosta starred as Nico Slater, daughter of Wilhelmina Slater in another season of ABC “Ugly”. The most recent acting accomplishments by DaCosta were the secondary role in the sci-fi action, by Joseph Kosinski “Tron Legacy”.

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Here you can learn about the movies Yaya DaCosta acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
TRON: Legacy - Siren #3	$170M	2010	$44M	$167M
The Messenger - Monica Washington (as Yaya Dacosta)	$6.5M	2009	$44.5K	$1.11M
Honeydripper - China Doll	$5M	2007	$13.9K	$268K
The Kids Are All Right - Tanya	$4M	2010	$492K	$20.8M
Shanghai Hotel - Kendra	$800K	2007
Take the Lead - LaRhette		2006	$12.1M	$34.7M