Mageina Tovah - born July 26, 1979 in Honolulu, Hawaii - is an American actress who portrayed Molly Ackerman in the second season on ABC's Scandal.
Personal Background[]
She lived in Honolulu for a short time where her father was a US Army psychiatrist in the Greet 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 Senior year of AP English at the same time. She graduated from high school at the age of 16. For college she started at The California Institute of the Arts, spending a year there in the BFA program. She then graduated Magna Cum Laude from USC in three and half years with a Bachelors of Arts Theatre degree. She later moved to New York, then back California to live in Los Angeles.
Career Background[]
She is best known for her as Glynis Figliola in the television series Joan of Arcadia; as well as Ursula Ditkovich in the Spider-Man films. She has made numerous guest appearances on television shows and been in her fair share of feature films. Mageina also made an appearance in the Jonas Akerlund directed music video for Christina Aguilera's hit song "Beautiful".
TV Roles[]
TV Recurring Roles[]
TV Show | Character | No. of Episodes | Year(s) |
---|---|---|---|
Hung | Christina | 3 | 2010-2011 |
The Shield | Farrah | Bottom Bitch Bitchs Brew |
2004-2008 |
Joan of Arcadia | Glynis Figliola | 23 | 2003-2005 |
TV Guest Roles[]
TV Show | Character | Episode | Year |
---|---|---|---|
CSI: NY | Eva Mason | Reignited | 2012 |
The Finder | Joyce Weatherby | The Inheritance | 2012 |
Shameless | Attorney Steve Duprey | I’ll Light a Candle for You Every Day | 2012 |
American Horror Story | Bianca Forrest | Home Invasion | 2011 |
The Mentalist | Constance | Rhapsody in Red | 2011 |
Breakout Kings | Jill Kincaid | Collected | 2011 |
Chase | Missy | Above the Law | 2010 |
Southland | Misty | Maximum Deployment | 2010 |
Lie to Me | Natalie | Blinded | 2009 |
Bones | Madame Nina | Double Trouble in the Panhandle | 2009 |
Private Practice | Rebecca Hobart | In Which Addison Has a Very Casual Get Together | 2007 |
Standoff | Gwen Keegan | Road Trip | 2007 |
Cold Case | Crystal Eckersdorf | Joseph | 2006 |
Half & Half | Ginny | The Big Diva Down Episode | 2006 |
Crossing Jordan | Laura Bennett | Death Goes On | 2005 |
Six Feet Under | Pink-Haired Girl | The Eye Inside | 2003 |
NYPD Blue | Anne Knepper | Half-Ashed | 2002 |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Jonesing Girl | Wrecked | 2001 |
The Guardian | Debbie | Feeding Frenzy | 2001 |
Filmography[]
Motion Pictures[]
Title | Character | Year | Type or Note |
---|---|---|---|
The Factory | Brittany | 2012 | Screamfest Film Festival |
Live! | Kelly | 2007 | Tribeca Film Festival |
Spider-Man 3 | Ursula | 2007 | Recurring Character |
Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas | Sam | 2006 | Limited Theatres |
Dark Heart | Jessica | 2006 | Phoenix Film Festival |
Failure to Launch | Barista | 2006 | Uncredited |
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | Usher | 2004 | Animated Movie |
Spider-Man 2 | Ursula | 2004 | Recurring Character |
TV Movies & Short Films[]
Title | Character | Year | Type |
---|---|---|---|
Neighbors | Sara Jerritt | 2012 | Short Film |
The Walking Wounded | Sadie | 2008 | Short Film |
In from the Night | Priscilla Miller | 2006 | TV Movie |
Do Geese See God? | Rose Vendor | 2004 | Short Film |
Hope Abandoned | Maid | 2003 | Short Film |
Trivia[]
- Her birth name is Mageina Begtrup
- She is an extremely slender actress who usually plays attractive but clumsy young girls with unrequited crushes.
Gallery[]
External Links[]
- IMDb - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1033193/
- Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mageina_Tovah