Araceli "Arly" Jover is a Spanish
actress
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. She is best known for her role as the villainous
vampire
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Mercury in the 1998
superhero film
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''
Blade
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''.
Life and career
Araceli Jover was born in
Melilla
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, a Spanish region. After living there for five years, her family was forced to move to
Mallorca
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The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Bal ...
, in the
Balearic Islands
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(Spain) because of her father's 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
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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 1995–1996. 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 Johnny-Jane''. After that, she did more work in TV, before making her first American film debut in ''
Blade
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'', in 1998, as Mercury; the vampire lover of
Deacon Frost
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.
In the following years she starred in various small roles in films and TV episodes, as well as larger roles in other films such as ''Fish in a Barrel'', and ''
Vampires: Los Muertos''. After 18 years in the United States, she then moved to France. Shortly after arriving there, she got a major role in the film ''
Empire of the Wolves'' alongside
Jean Reno
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.
Currently, she lives in
Paris
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, France, with her daughter, Shai. Her family still lives in Majorca, Spain, where Arly visits them every year during the summer.
Filmography
* ''Tango'' (1994)
* ''
The Ballad of Johnny-Jane'' (1995)
* ''
Blade
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'' (1998) — Mercury
* ''
Maria & Jose
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'' (2000) — Maria
* ''
Everything Put Together
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'' (2000) — Nurse Edna
* ''
The Young Unknowns'' (2000) — Paloma
* ''
Four Dogs Playing Poker
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'' (2000) — Maria
* ''
Fish in a Barrel
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'' (2001) — Nina
* ''
Impostor (2001 film)
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'' (2001) — Newscaster #2
* ''
Vampires: Los Muertos'' (2002) — Una
* ''
April's Shower
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'' (2003) — Sophie
* ''
Empire of the Wolves'' (2005) — Anna Heymes
* ''
Madame Irma
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Plot
Francis, a recently laid-off CEO, takes up dressing up as a woman Romanian fortune-teller to earn ...
'' (2006) — Ines
* ''
Two Worlds'' (2007) — Delphine
* ''
Little Ashes
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'' (2009) —
Gala Dali
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(UK-Spanish production)
* ''
The Minister
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Plot
French Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean arrives at the scene of a serious bus crash with many fatalities. ...
'' (2011) — Séverine Saint-Jean
* ''
Qui a envie d'être aimé?'' (2011) — Claire
* ''
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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'' (2011) — Liv
* ''
Turning Tide
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Plot
Yann Kermadec has short notice to replace the main skipper in the Vendée Globe. After a few days of racing, Yann is first bu ...
'' (2013) — Anna Bruckner
* ''
The Idealist
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Cast
* Peter Plaugborg - Poul Br ...
'' (2015) — Estibaliz
* ''
A Prominent Patient
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'' ( cz, Masaryk) (2016) —
Marcia Davenport
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* ''
Axolotl Overkill
''Axolotl Overkill'' is a 2017 German drama film directed by Helene Hegemann, and stars Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Arly Jover, and Mavie Hörbiger. The screenplay by Hegemann is based on her 2010 debut novel ''Axolotl Roadkill''. The film had its wor ...
'' (2017) — Alice
Television
* ''
Women: Stories of Passion'' (1993) — Pascal
* ''
Players'' (1998) — Kiva
* ''
Dragnet'' (2003) — Katrina Fluery
* ''
L'Enfant d'une autre'' (2005)
* ''
Sense8
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'' (2018) - Georges
References
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Living people
People from Melilla
Actresses from Paris
People from Mallorca
Spanish film actresses
Spanish television actresses
Spanish female dancers
20th-century Spanish actresses
21st-century Spanish actresses
1971 births