Arly Jover

Araceli Jover was born in Melilla a Spanish region After living there for five years her family was forced to move to Mallorca in the Balearic Islands Spain because of her fathers work as a soldier She is the youngest of seven siblings four sisters and three brothers During her early years she wanted to become a dancer She began dancing at the age of 8 At 14 she dropped out of school and at 15 she won a scholarship from the Comité Hispano Norteamericano Because of this she left Spain and moved to New York City in order to continue to study at the School of American Ballet under Martha Graham After two years and half in the United States her career then moved on to becoming an actress sometime around 19951996 She had her first role in an episode of the TV show Women Stories of Passion and starred in two international films Tango and The Ballad of JohnnyJane After that she did more work in TV before making her first American film debut in Blade in 1998 as Mercury the vampire lover of Deacon Frost