B: August 29, 1980 in Edmonton, Alberta
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. |