"Okay, Boys, gimme some room-- Momma's gonna have herself some fun!" Musetta said, playing the infamous Lash in the sci-fi classic "Oblivion"; and indeed, Musetta always seems to be having fun when she is acting.
As a native South African Musetta was raised without television, trips to the drive-in introduced her to the world of movies.
Musetta began her career as a professional dancer. After completing a BA in Communications and Psychology, she landed herself the plum job as anchor host for an MTV-like television show called Telemusik in
… More her native South Africa. Although this was her first show as on-camera hostess, her early childhood was filled with both on- and off-camera performances in theater and television. Being the daughter of a ballet teacher/opera singing mother, her first appearance on stage was at age 4 in one of the many shows her mother choreographed.
Musetta is a qualified ballet teacher herself. After being spotted on-camera by future husband (director Jeff Celentano) during a visit to South Africa, she ended up exactly where she had always dreamed of being- Hollywood. She and Celetano married in 1988, and shortly after her arrival in the US she became part of the very world she used to host, except this time as the desirable girl in various music videos for artists including Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Elton John and Chris Isaak to name but a few.
Altogether she has graced 21 music videos for top artists. The transition to the big screen shortly followed and in her first feature she played a Russian scientist opposite Bill Paxton, Lou Gossett Jr. and John Hurt. Numerous other projects followed. Among her most memorable roles were the humorless weapons expert "Munitia" in Warner Brothers "Wild Wild West" (1999), Ella Baines, the mother of the comatose boy in New Line Cinema's dark thriller "The Cell" (2000), and as the seductive Siren in the smash hit from the Coen Brothers "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000).
Musetta also added a few television credits to her list, including guest appearances in Stargate Sg-1, Frasier and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
She can currently be seen playing legendary Robert Duvall's wife Janice, in Will Ferrell's summer comedy Kicking & Screaming.
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