Angela Funovits (born July 29, 1987) is an American
magician
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Performers
* A practitioner of magic (supernatural)
* A practitioner of magic (illusion)
* Magician (fantasy), a character in a fictional fantasy context
Entertainment
Books
* ''The Magician'', an 18th-ce ...
,
mentalist
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, and
dermatologist
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. She has made television appearances in the United States and elsewhere.
Biography
Funovits was born and raised in
Avon Lake, Ohio
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Hi ...
. She became interested in magic at the age of 10 after watching ''
Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed'', a
Fox Network
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TV program that revealed the secrets of magicians. Funovits began
modeling
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Models c ...
at age 11 after being scouted by an agent from
Elite Model Management
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and at age 16 she won the Miss Teen
Cleveland
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pageant.
She graduated from
Avon Lake High School
Avon Lake High School (ALHS) is a public high school located in Avon Lake, Ohio, west of Cleveland. It serves grades 9–12. It is part of the Avon Lake City School District.
Academics
ALHS achieved "excellent" ratings on the Ohio State Report ...
in 2005 and entered the combined B.S./M.D. 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
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. Funovits graduated from
Northeast Ohio Medical University
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Its medical school has partnerships with four pu ...
in the spring of 2013 and completed her
dermatology
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residency
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at
Case Western Reserve University
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/
MetroHealth Medical Center
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in Cleveland, Ohio where she served as academic chief resident and was named recipient of the ''American Academy of Dermatology's Presidential Citation Award''. She went on to work as a dermatologist at Allied Dermatology and Skin Surgery, and continues to run a production company, Seraphim One, that she founded in 2006.
Appearances
* In October and November 2007, Funovits was the only female of ten mentalist contestants on the primetime
NBC
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series
''Phenomenon'', which was hosted by
Tim Vincent
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and judged by
Criss Angel
Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos ( el, Χριστόφορος Νικόλαος Σαραντάκος; born December 19, 1967), known professionally as Criss Angel, is an American magician, illusionist and musician. Angel began his career in New ...
and
Uri Geller
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. She finished as first runner-up on the series.
* Funovits represented the US in the live German TV special ''Die besten Mentalisten der Welt'' on
ProSieben
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. The special was an addition to the German series ''
The Next Uri Geller - Unglaubliche Phänomene live''. It featured Funovits (USA), (Switzerland), Aaron Crow (Netherlands), and
Lior Suchard
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Early life
Suchard was born in Haifa, Israel, as the youngest of three brothers. ...
(Israel).
* ''W-1'', a Japanese TV special on the
Fuji Television
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today is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo. Odaiba was initially b ...
Network alongside Japanese magician
Mr. Maric.
* Funovits was one of the four expert magician "Wizards" on the
SyFy
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series
Wizard Wars
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.
* Featured guest on NPR's ''
All Things Considered
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'' with
Arun Rath
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Biography
Rath began his journalism career as an intern at NPR's ''Talk of the Nation'' while he was enrolled in an English Literature master's program in Washington, DC. After the ...
.
* Featured performer on ''
Penn & Teller: Fool Us'' on the
CW network
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.
* Featured performer on ''
Masters of Illusion'' on the
CW Network
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.
* Featured performer on ''Don't Blink'' with guest
Matthew Moy
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,
POPTV network.
* Featured guest judge and performer on ' with
Deddy Corbuzier
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on Indonesia's Trans7 network.
* Featured guest on Indonesia's '.
* Emcee and performer for the
American Academy of Dermatology
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's 2017 President's Gala.
* Featured guest on Germany's
Johannes B. Kerner
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Early life
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Show
* Featured guest on the late-night syndicated radio talk show ''
Coast to Coast AM
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'', which often discusses topics of the paranormal.
* In 2010 she was a presenter at
Moses Znaimer
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's ideaCity in Toronto, Ontario.
* Featured performer on ' on France's
TF1
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television network
* Featured performer at
The Magic Castle
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in Hollywood.
* Headlining performer at the
Grand Sierra Resort & Casino in Reno, Nevada.
* Headlining performer at the
United States Military Academy
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at West Point.
* In her second year of medical school, Funovits produced two fundraiser shows benefiting the
American Cancer Society
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and the Player's Guild Theatre in
Canton, Ohio
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.
References
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1987 births
Kent State University alumni
Living people
People from Avon Lake, Ohio
American magicians
Northeast Ohio Medical University alumni
Female magicians
Physicians from Ohio
21st-century American women physicians
21st-century American physicians
American dermatologists