Fátima Ptacek (born August 20, 2000) is an American film and television actress and human rights activist working with UN Women's #HeForShe campaign for gender equality. She is best known as the lead actor in the 2012 Academy Award winning film Curfew and its 2014 full-length feature film version Before I Disappear. She has lent her voice as the lead role of "Dora" in Nickelodeon's animated television series Dora the Explorer since 2010 and Dora and Friends: Into the City! since 2014. Ptacek was born and resides in New York City with her parents. Her mother is Ecuadorian. Her father has Colombian, Czech, Irish and Norwegian roots. She is a gymnast, competing at United States of America Gymastics Level 7.
Fatima Ptacek, the teen actress who voices Dora, was suspended from her private school over the incident. Dora the Explorer Actress Fatima Ptacek Suspended for Vaping