Mageina Tovah
| Mageina Tovah | |
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 Tovah at the premiere of Spider-Man 3, 2007 |
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| Born | Mageina Tovah Begtrup July 26, 1979 Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2001–present |
Mageina Tovah (born July 26, 1979) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Glynis Figliola in the television series Joan of Arcadia and as Ursula Ditkovich in the Spider-Man films.
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Early life [edit]
Tovah was born Mageina Begtrup in Honolulu, Hawaii, where her father was a US Army psychiatrist in the Green Berets, and her mother was an Army physical therapist. Her family later settled in Clarksville, Tennessee and then moved to Nashville. Mageina attended Martin Luther King Junior Magnet High School in Nashville, Tennessee. She skipped a year of high school, taking both her Junior year of honors English and her Senior year of AP English at the same time. She graduated from high school at the age of 16. For college, Mageina started at The California Institute of the Arts, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the USC in three and a half years. She later moved to New York and Los Angeles.
Career [edit]
As well as her recurring role on Joan of Arcadia, Tovah's television work includes guest roles on a number of TV shows. These include: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, NYPD Blue, Six Feet Under, The Shield, Cold Case, Crossing Jordan and Private Practice. Tovah's feature film work includes roles in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Dark Heart, Failure to Launch, Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas and a recurring role as Ursula Ditkovich in the films Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3.
Tovah also made an appearance in the Jonas Åkerlund-directed music video for Christina Aguilera's hit song "Beautiful".
Filmography [edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Virus Man | Young Girl | |
| 2002 | Dine & Shine | ||
| 2002 | Reflections of Evil | ||
| 2003 | The Pool at Maddy Breaker's | Louise | TV film |
| 2003 | Hope Abandoned | Maid | Short film |
| 2004 | Y.M.I. | Nevermore | |
| 2004 | Spider-Man 2 | Ursula Ditkovich | |
| 2004 | Sleepover | Girl on Phone | |
| 2004 | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | Usher | |
| 2004 | Do Geese See God? | Rose Vendor | Short film |
| 2005 | Waterborne | Lillian | |
| 2006 | Failure to Launch | Barista | Uncredited |
| 2006 | Dark Heart [disambiguation needed] | Jessica | |
| 2006 | Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas | Sam | |
| 2006 | In from the Night | Priscilla Miller | TV film |
| 2007 | Spider-Man 3 | Ursula Ditkovich | |
| 2007 | Live! | Kelly | |
| 2008 | The Walking Wounded | Sadie | Short film |
| 2008 | Dream from Leaving | ||
| 2011 | The Factory | Brittany | |
| 2012 | Neighbors | Sara Jerritt | Short film |
| 2012 | Decoding Annie Parker | Ellen |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | The Guardian | Debbie | "Feeding Frenzy" (season 1: episode 7) |
| 2001 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Jonesing Girl | "Wrecked" (season 6: episode 10) |
| 2002 | NYPD Blue | Anne Knepper | "Half-Ashed" (season 10: episode 9) |
| 2003 | Six Feet Under | Pink-Haired Girl | "The Eye Inside" (season 3: episode 3) |
| 2003 | Boston Public | "Chapter Sixty-One" (season 3: episode 17) | |
| 2003–2005 | Joan of Arcadia | Glynis Figliola | Recurring character; 23 episodes |
| 2004 2008 |
The Shield | Farrah | "Bottom Bitch" (season 3: episode 3) "Bitches Brew" (season 7: episode 7) |
| 2004 | Strong Medicine | Trinity | "Omissions" (season 5: episode 3) |
| 2005 | Crossing Jordan | Laura Bennett | "Death Goes On" (season 5: episode 9) |
| 2006 | Half & Half | Ginny | "The Big Diva Down Episode" (season 4: episode 13) |
| 2006 | Cold Case | Crystal Eckersdorf | "Joseph" (season 3: episode 23) |
| 2007 | Standoff | Gwen Keegan | "Road Trip" (season 1: episode 14) |
| 2007 | Private Practice | Rebecca Hobart | "In Which Addison Has a Very Casual Get Together" (season 1: episode 4) |
| 2009 | Bones | Madame Nina | "Double Trouble in the Panhandle" (season 4: episode 11) |
| 2009 | Lie to Me | Natalie | "Blinded" (season 1: episode 12) |
| 2010 | Southland | Misty | "Maximum Deployment" (season 2: episode 6) |
| 2010 2011 |
Hung | Christina | "Sing It Again, Ray or Home Plate" (season 2: episode 4) "Don't Give Up on Detroit or Hung Like a Horse" (season 3: episode 1) "Take the Cake or Are You Packing?" (season 3: episode 2) |
| 2010 | Chase | "Above the Law" (season 1: episode 5) | |
| 2011 | Breakout Kings | Jill Kincaid | "Collected" (season 1: episode 2) |
| 2011 | The Mentalist | Constance | "Rhapsody in Red" (season 3: episode 22) |
| 2011 | American Horror Story | Bianca | "Home Invasion" (season 1: episode 2) |
| 2012 | Shameless | Kim Furtado | "I'll Light a Candle for You Every Day" (season 2: episode 3) |
| 2012 | The Finder | Joyce Weatherby | "The Inheritance" (season 1: episode 11) |
