French musical actress Prisca Demarez

How does one go from being a psychomotor therapist to being an actress who specializes in stage musicals?  Well, you can ask France's Prisca Demarez.

She spent five years as a therapist helping people develop their senses of being from a holistic standpoint before deciding to pursue her true passion - making people happy as an entertainer.  She started out on Réunion, an overseas French island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar., as a radio presenter and a jazz-club singer before getting her theatrical training at the school of actor and director Raymond Acquaviva in Paris. Soon Mlle. Demarez was performing in plays like Shakespeare's Macbeth (as Lady Macbeth) and in The Surprise of Love.  Musicals were her next logical step.

Here is a partial list of the musical productions Mlle. Demarez has appeared in: Titanic, Cabaret, Avenue Q, and French Can-Can.  And she played the Wicked Queen in a production of Snow White. 

In addition to a coule of short films, Ms. Demarez has also been a model in fashion shows.  She's come a long way from her days in Réunion.