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Born in Tahiti, Karina moved to Europe where she became fluent Spanish, English, Italian, French, and German along with extensive training in performiong arts while attending private schools.
After turning 18, she relocated to New York where she began modeling, dancing and acting, on both stage and screen.
Note: Since she's multi-lingual, Karina has appeared in numerous productions in Italy and France that have not aired in the US. (Our loss!)
Like several other
Fantastic Femmes including
Jennifer Beals, and
Pam Grier, Karina has been a regular on the award-winning cable series
The L Word.
Currently, she's appearing on the acclaimed cable series
Rescue Me. as well as developing a project (which she's writing the music and lyrics for) with
Cirque de Soleil.
Genre appearances include...
The 4400 (Alana Mareva)
Suspectes aka
Secrets (Claude Perkins)
CSI "A La Cart"
Guardian (Ketherine Kross)
Deception (Margareth)
Murder at the Cannes Film Festival (Inspector Renee Reno)
Seventh Scroll (Royan)
Violent Earth (Anna Temaru)
Last Man Standing (Felina)
Kull the Conqueror (Zareta)