Actress and model, she is the first child of an Italian art dealer and a Greek mother, raised in Calabria then soon after her teen age years in Athens where she worked as an accomplished model for main companies and a cover girl since the 90s. Dorotea has lived a big part of her life in New York where she studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and had her two children at an early age. As a young girl, she was a student of classical ballet and continued to practice studies of dance. She is fluent in five languages, Italian, Greek, English, French, and Spanish. She is also an accomplished vocalist and recording artist.