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Born in Edmonton, Jovanna Huguet-Burke grew up in Vancouver with her Peruvian-born mother and Canadian father. As a result she is fluent in English, French and Spanish. Her mother who had always loved dance, noticed her daughter’s natural ability to move at a young age, and enrolled her in ballet when she was 5-years-old. Later on she would train at the prestigious Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and the Walnut Hill School, in Natick, Massachusetts, where she was a principal dancer in their company, the National Youth Ballet, and got to work with the prestigious Boston Ballet as a result. After 3 years of hard work in Boston, Huguet-Burke had an unfortunate injury that would change the course of her life as a ballet dancer. She made her acting debut in the 2003 award winning Canadian Independent Film: Part of the Game. The plays the role of Margie Hepburn on the series The True Heroines.
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Part of the Game (2003)
The Look (2003)
Truth (VR-2006)
Veiled Truth (TV-2006)
Under the Mistletoe (TV-2006)
Numb (2007)
Chaos Theory (2008)
Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief (2010)
The Little Mermaid (2011, short)
Foreverland (2011)
For Better or for Worse (TV-2014)
The Trap (2015, short)
The Winter Song (2017, short)
From Straight A’s to XXX (TV-2017)
The Christmas Train (TV-2017)
The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar (TV-2018)
Welcome to Christmas (TV-2018)
Ruby Herring Mysteries: Silent Witness (TV-2019)
13 Miles (2020)
TV Series – Cast:
Alice (2009, mini-series)
The True Heroines (2013)
TV Series – Guest Appearances:
Supernatural (2005, 2019)
Blade: The Series (2006)
Psych (2007)
Smallville (2007)
Fringe (2009)
Mr. Young (2011)
True Justice (2011)
Package Deal (2013)
The New Romantics (2016)
iZombie (2017)
Crypt Fables (2017)
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce (2017)
The Flash (2017)
Beaver’s Edge (2019)
Gabby Duran & The Unsittables (voice, 2019)
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