Dana Fuchs Movies and Career Information

Dana Fuchs (January 10, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and voice over talent most famous for her role as Sadie in the 2007 film Across the Universe. Fuchs was born in New Jersey and raised in Wildwood, Florida, a small rural town, daughter of Sandy and Don Fuchs. At the age of twelve she joined the First Baptist Gospel Choir and began singing in public. At sixteen she fronted a popular local band at a roadside Holiday Inn. The youngest of six musical children, Dana was raised in a small town in rural Florida surrounded by music- her older siblings' band playing classic rock in the garage, Ray Charles and Hank Williams on her parents' turntable, and a big dose of 70's and 80's funk at school. It was the beginning of a hunger for singing and the stage that Wildwood, Florida couldn't possibly satiate. Soon she was headed north telling friends and family she was "going to New York to sing the blues." Arriving in NYC alone and broke at the age of 19, Dana soon found herself down and out on Manhattan's Lower East Side. After the wake-up call of her older sister's suicide (Donna was Dana's first musical mentor), Dana pulled herself together, determined to reconnect with