Background
Tovah was born Mageina Tovah Begtrup in Honolulu, Hawaii, where her father was a United States Army psychiatrist in the Green Berets, and her mother was an Army physical therapist.
Tovah was born Mageina Tovah Begtrup in Honolulu, Hawaii, where her father was a United States Army psychiatrist in the Green Berets, and her mother was an Army physical therapist.
Mageina attended Martin Luther King Junior Magnet High School in Nashville.
She is best known for her roles as Glynis Figliola in the television series Joan of Arcadia (2003–2005) and as Ursula Ditkovich in Sam Raimi"s Spider-Manitoba trilogy. Her family later settled for a time in Clarksville, Tennessee before moving to Nashville. She skipped a year of high school, taking both her Junior year of honors English and her Senior year of Associated Press English at the same time.
She graduated from high school at the age of 16.
Foreign college, Mageina started at The California Institute of the Arts, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Southern California in three and a half years. She later moved to New York and Los Los Angeles
Tovah had a recurring role on Joan of Arcadia (2003-2005). Her television work also includes guest roles on a number of television shows.
These include: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, New York City Police Department 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-Manitoba 2 and Spider-Manitoba 3. Tovah made an appearance in the Jonas Åkerlund-directed music video for Christina Aguilera"s hit song "Beautiful".