Biography
Arly Jover, also credited as Araceli Jover, is a Spanish actress. Born in Melilla, Spain, she is the youngest of seven siblings. Her family moved to Mallorca when she was five due to her father's military posting. She began dance training at the age of eight and, after dropping out of school at fourteen, won a scholarship that took her to New York at fifteen to study at the School of American Ballet under Martha Graham.
After two and a half years in the United States, Jover turned to acting around 1995–1996. Her early screen work included an episode of Women: Stories of Passion and the films Tango (1994) and The Ballad of Johnny-Jane (1995). She made her American film debut as Mercury in Blade (1998). Subsequent roles include Vampires: Los Muertos (2002), Empire of the Wolves (2005), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and Haute Cuisine (2012). After eighteen years in the United States she moved to France.
