Background
Funovits was born and raised in Avon Lake, Ohio.
Funovits was born and raised in Avon Lake, Ohio.
She graduated from Avon Lake High School in 2005 and entered the combined Bachelor of Surgery/Doctor of Medicine Funovits graduated from Northeast Ohio Medical University in the spring of 2013 and matched into the Dermatology residency program at Case Western Reserve University/MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
She is known in the United States for her performances on National Broadcasting Company’s Phenomenon. She became interested in magic at the age of 10 after watching Breaking the Magician"s Code: Magic"s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed, a television program on the Fox network that revealed the secrets of magicians. program at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, later forming a program where magicians teach magic tricks to children at a cancer support center in Cleveland. In October and November 2007, Funovits was the only female of ten mentalist contestants on the primetime National Broadcasting Company series Phenomenon, which was hosted by Tim Vincent and judged by Criss Angel and Uri Geller.
She finished as first runner-up on the series, after performing dangerous demonstrations of mentalism involving chain saws, knives, and fire.
Funovits represented the United States of America in the live German television special “Die besten Mentalisten der Welt” on ProSieben. The special was an addition to the German series “The Next Uri Geller - Unglaubliche Phänomene live”.
lieutenant featured Funovits (United States of America), Vincent Raven (Germany), Aaron Crow (Netherlands), and Lior Suchard (Israel). Funovits has also starred in West-1, a Japanese television special on the Fuji Television Network alongside Japanese magician Mr.
Maric. Funovits has been a guest on Germany’s Johannes B. Kerner Show, and on the late-night syndicated radio talk show Coast to Coast Department of Administration and Management, which often discusses topics of the paranormal.
In 2010 she was a presenter at Moses Znaimer"s ideaCity in Toronto, Ontario. In addition to performing on France"s TF1 television network, she has been a performer at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, the Grand Sierra Resort & Casino in Reno, Nevada, and the United States Military Academy at West Point. In her second year of medical school, Funovits produced two fundraiser shows benefiting the American Cancer Society and the Player"s Guild Theatre in Canton, Ohio.