Best known to millions of views as photographer Jo Reynolds on primetime TV show "Melrose Place" from 1992 to 1996, Daphne Zuniga is a prolific actress that has appeared in many big and small screen movies over the last two decades.

Daphne - who used to share a house in Los Angeles with Meg Ryanwhen they were both struggling actresses – started her acting career in “The Sure Thing”, in which she starred opposite John Cusack.

Daphne has appeared in the 1987 Star Wars spoof Mel Brooks' "Spaceballs", 1989's medical drama "Gross Anatomy" and horror flick "The Fly II", as well as 1993's "Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon" and 2000's "Artificial Lives" to name just a handful of her many movie roles.

She has also had TV guest spot roles in: "Spin City", "Stark Raving Mad", "Eve" and "Law and Order", and recurring as sexy Playboy Playmate Shelly Pierce on "American Dreams". Plus she was also one of many actors who voiced characters for the animated television series "Stories from My Childhood", and had a lead role in the TV series "Pandora's Clock". She is currently starring as Lynn Kerr in the AbcTV drama series, “Beautiful People”.

Daphne got into acting after honing her skills, studying for a year at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco before enrolling in UCLA's theater program. Daphne also studied with famous acting coach, Peggy Feury, at the Loft Studio, along with Larry Moss and Penny Allen.

Since finding fame, the brunette actress has also used her high profile raise awareness for environmental issues. She was a founding board member of Earth Communications Office (ECO), an organization that “harnesses the power of the environmental movement and the entertainment community”. She has also written magazine articles on conservation issues. She says of her activism work: “My focus is our precious natural environment. Saving, preserving, restoring every part of it. This planet, an incredible organism, has done nothing but give to us. We turn to nature to remember who we are really. In the silence of it, the rawness, the infinite truth and beauty of it we remember we are a part of it, and just as miraculous. ”

I am committed to bringing awareness to those who are living under the worst environmental conditions. 65% of Latinos in America for example, live in air not meeting federal standards and 1 out of 6 of these babies and children suffer asthma and other serious illnesses,” she also says, explaining about another issue she hopes to make an impact on.

Daphne – who likes to ride her Harley Davidson motorcycle and meditate – in her spare time, hit the headlines for her off screen life, when she fell victim to mercury poisoning. It was caused her her eating sushi and other fish at least four times a week, and meant the actress suffered from memory loss, headaches, and depression.