Sara Gmuer was born in 1980 in Locarno. She spent her childhood in the Italian Swiss, her teenhood in Luzern. Aged 17, she dropped out of school, traveled the world, earned her first money as a model and spent it for rap records. In 2002 she finished acting school in Zurich and since then starred in quite a few film and television productions. Sara Gmuer lives in Berlin. Her first novel will be published in the spring of 2012 at orange-press.