ZAMPROGNA, Gema 1976–

PERSONAL

Born May 24, 1976; raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; daughter of Lou Zamprogna (a director, choreographer, dancer, and operator of a dance school); mother, an operator of a dance school; sister of Amanda Zamprogna (an actress) and Dominic Zamprogna (an actor); married Daniel Boich, October 25, 2003. Education: Attended Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Career: Actress and dancer. Dance soloist for symphonies, including the Florida Symphonic Pops Orchestra, Boca Raton, FL; Studio Technique, Burlington, Ontario, Canada, instructor of acting and pilates classes.

Awards, Honors: Young Artist Award nominations, best young actress costarring in an off-primetime series, Young Artist Foundation, 1991, and best young actress costarring in a cable series, 1993, Gemini Award nominations, best performance by an actress in a supporting role, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, 1992 and 1995, and Gemini Award nomination, best performance by an actress in a continuing leading dramatic role, 1997, all for Road to Avonlea.

CREDITS

Television Appearances; Series:

Felicity King (later Felicity King Pike), Road to Avonlea (also known as Avonlea, Road to Avonlea: The Final Season, and Tales from Avonlea), CBC, 1989–97, The Disney Channel, 1990–97.

Affiliated with World Vision, a television series helping match children with foster parents.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Baroness Ursula von Knabig, By Way of the Stars (also known as Der Lange Weg des Lukas B.), The Disney Channel, 1992.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Amanda Simmons, In Defense of a Married Man, ABC, 1990.

Mackie "Mac" Daniels, The Challengers (also known as Le defi de Marie and Le defis de Marie), CBC, 1991.

Felicity King Pike, Happy Christmas, Miss King (also known as An Avonlea Christmas and Joyeux Noel Mademoiselle King), Odyssey, 1998.

Arlene, Pirates of Silicon Valley, TNT, 1999.

Sarah, Jewel, CBS, 2001.

Voice, Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids (animated), Nickelodeon and Canadian television, 2003.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Annie Clark, Dear America: So Far from Home (also known as Dear America 05 and Dear America: So Far from Home; The Story of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847), HBO, 1999.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

"Forbidden Ground," My Secret Identity, syndicated, 1988.

Girl, "The Playhouse," Friday the 13th: The Series (also known as Friday's Curse and Friday the 13th), syndicated, 1989.

Sam Fished, "Candle in the Night," War of the Worlds, syndicated, 1990.

Katherine, "Last Act," Forever Knight, CBS, 1992.

Young Sara, "Take Two," Twice in a Lifetime, PAX TV, 2000.

Gwen Stack, "The Fugitive," Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (also known as Lip Service and Sue Thomas: I See You), PAX TV, 2003.

Film Appearances:

Alice, Johnny, The Asylum, 1999.

Allison, Avenging Angelo, Warner Bros., 2003.

Stage Appearances:

Appeared as the young Marie Antoinette in the opera Andrea Chenier; as the queen, Winnie the Pooh; also appeared in the musicals Chess, Into the Woods, and West Side Story.