Antonia Jones(I)

Antonia Jones was born Antonia Maria Benyovszky. She is a descendant of the Hungarian King Maurice Benyovszky. (1746-1786) Antonia harbored a passion for acting at an early age. She moved from her childhood home in Libertyville, Illinois to Los Angeles to pursue a career in front of the camera and studied acting with Jeff Corey, Don Richardson, Harry Mastrogeorge, and Brian Reise. Antonia landed numerous jobs immediately after signing with her first agent in Hollywood. She was cast in several Disney Educational Films and was the beautiful young model in Michael W. Smith's music video "A Place In This World". Her first series in 1993 brought her to New York City where she played "Sara" in Robert DeNiro's anthology series Tribecca working alongside Philip Bosco and Joe Morton amongst other notable guest stars. In 1995, Antonia landed a series regular role in UPN's Live Shot in which she played "Peggy Traynor" a young intern in the newsroom alongside David Birney, Sam Anderson, Hill Harper, and Bruce McGill. In addition to her acting work, Antonia boasts years of dedication to working in the medical community and spent seven years working behind the scenes in film development and reality television production learning "the other side" of the business. Antonia was seen most recently alongside Ving Rhames in Kojak and with Keke Palmer in True Jackson.