Prim, proper and prissy. This description of Daniella Cartier irritates some and enchants others. She is tall and elegant, carrying herself with a regal confidence. She appeared ill-prepared for the brutal combat involved in ACW, but says "It just goes to prove that you don't have to grow up on the mean streets of the city to be tough."

Cartier was born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth. "Actually," she says, "I was rather irked that it wasn't a golden spoon." She was a debutante in training for most of her early life, attending private school and social balls. Her father was the Headmaster of the exclusive DeCatur Academy in Baltimore, Maryland and her mother was an administrator for the Balthauser estate in Owings Mills, Maryland.