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Mageina Tovah 
Tovah at the premiere of Spider-Man 3, 2007Born Mageina Tovah Begtrup
July 26, 1979
Honolulu, HawaiiOccupation Film/Theatre/Television Actress Years active 2001 - present Website http://www.mageinatovah.com 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
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 has a sister, Rebecca Begtrup, who is a pediatrician and psychiatrist in New Orleans, Louisiana. 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
As well as her recurring role on Joan of Arcadia, Tovah's television work include 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 a memorable appearance in the Jonas Åkerlund-directed music video for Christina Aguilera's hit song "Beautiful".
Filmography
Selected Mageina Tovah film and TV show credits: Acting Credits
2011
Breakout Kings
Jill Kincaid
2011
Neighbors - Sara Jerritt
2010
Chase
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2009
The Factory - Brittany
2009
Lie to Me - Natalie
2009
Southland - Misty
2009
Hung - Christina
2008
The Mentalist - Constance
2008
Dream from Leaving
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2008
The Walking Wounded - Sadie
2007
Live! -Kelly
2007
Spider-Man 3 -Ursula
2007
Private Practice - Rebecca Hobart
2006
Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas - Sam
2006
Dark Heart - Jessica
2006
Failure to Launch -Barista
2006
In from the Night -Priscilla Miller
2006
Standoff -Gwen Keegan
2005
Waterborne -Lillian
2005
Bones -Madame Nina
2004
Sleepover - Girl on Phone
2004
Spider-Man 2 -Ursula
2004
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie -Usher
2004
Y.M.I. -Nevermore
2004
Do Geese See God? -Rose Vendor
2003
The Pool at Maddy Breaker's -Louise
2003
Cold Case -Crystal Eckersdorf
2003
Joan of Arcadia -Glynis Figliola
2003
Hope Abandoned -Maid
2002
Reflections of Evil
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2002
Half & Half -Ginny
2002
The Shield -Farrah
2002
Dine & Shine
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2001
Crossing Jordan -Laura Bennett
2001
Six Feet Under -Pink-Haired Girl
2001
The Guardian -Debbie
2000
Boston Public
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2000
Strong Medicine -Trinity
2000
Virus Man -Young Girl
1997
Buffy the Vampire Slayer -Jonesing Girl
1993
NYPD Blue -Anne Knepper
External links
Categories:- 1979 births
- American film actors
- American television actors
- Living people
- Military brats
- People from Clarksville, Tennessee
- People from Honolulu, Hawaii
- People from Nashville, Tennessee
- Actors from Tennessee
- American film actor, 1970s birth stubs
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