Robia Brett LaMorte (born July 7, 1970) is an American actress and former dancer. She is best known as a dancer and spokesperson for the singer Prince, and for her role as Jenny Calendar in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
LaMorte was born in the New York City borough of Queens and grew up in several locations including the Florida Keys and Ocean City, Maryland. She is named after her father, Robert LaMorte. After being inspired by...
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Robia Brett LaMorte (born July 7, 1970) is an American actress and former dancer. She is best known as a dancer and spokesperson for the singer Prince, and for her role as Jenny Calendar in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
LaMorte was born in the New York City borough of Queens and grew up in several locations including the Florida Keys and Ocean City, Maryland. She is named after her father, Robert LaMorte. After being inspired by the 1983 movie Flashdance, she began dancing and taking after-school lessons in jazz, ballet, and tap dance. She attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a dance major during the school's first year of operation, and then received a full scholarship to the Dupree Dance Academy in Hollywood. At sixteen, she began working as a backup dancer in music videos, first appearing in Debbie Gibson's "Shake Your Love".
After having appeared in more than thirty music videos and toured in a six-dancer troupe with the Pet Shop Boys,...
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