Anita hails from a very artistic GermanItalian family of 5 children growing up in Brasil in a home where parties soirées and artists gatherings were constant events Mom Laura Cavalheiro was originally a lawyer but developed a very successful career as cultural producer grant writer and theatreunion doall Dad Andre Petry is an accomplished journalist columnist and funnyguy really Anita stepped on the stage for the first time at age 12 as a very young modern dancer but the theatre became an absolute passion shortly after that At age 14 workshops and acting classes populated life and took over all of her time consistently from high school on During her college experience split between Brasil and the US she worked professionally in both theatre and TV and developed interest in dancetheatre theatre of the absurd clowning and circus aerial acrobatics Besides acting Anita is in love with her Dubliner husband with foreign languages anthropology yoga cooking and all beautiful music and poetry