Angela Funovits | |
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| Born | July 29, 1987 |
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Angela Funovits (born July 29, 1987) is an American magician, mentalist, and dermatologist. She has made television appearances in the United States and elsewhere.
Angela Funovits | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 29, 1987 |
| Website | www |
Angela Funovits (born July 29, 1987) is an American magician, mentalist, and dermatologist. She has made television appearances in the United States and elsewhere.
Funovits was born and raised in Avon Lake, Ohio. 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 TV program that revealed the secrets of magicians. [1] Funovits began modeling at age 11 after being scouted by an agent from Elite Model Management and at age 16 she won the Miss Teen Cleveland pageant. [2]
She graduated from Avon Lake High School 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. [3] Funovits graduated from Northeast Ohio Medical University in the spring of 2013 [4] and completed her dermatology residency at Case Western Reserve University/MetroHealth Medical Center 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. [5]
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