Emeraude Toubia
Canadian-born American actress and model
Emeraude Toubia (emm-ROD-too-BEE-uhh, born March 1, 1989) is a Canadian-American actress. From 2016 to 2019, she portrayed Isabelle Lightwood on the Freeform fantasy series Shadowhunters. Toubia has starred as Lily Diaz on the Amazon Prime Video romantic comedy series With Love from 2021-2023
Early life and education
Toubia was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was raised in Brownsville, Texas as an only child. Toubia's mother, Mirta Sonia (née Solis), was born and raised in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, and her father is Gaby Toubia, the son of Elias Toubia and Zomorrod Hilany, a Lebanese American.
As a child, Toubia was professionally trained in classical ballet, flamenco, belly dance, and lyrical dance. Toubia attended Homer Hanna High School in Brownsville for her secondary education. Since the age of fifteen, Toubia had competed in several beauty pageants; she was crowned Miss South Texas, Miss Rio Grande Valley America, and Miss Teen Brownsville.
Career
In 1999, at the age of ten, Toubia made her first television appearance on Televisa's children's program El Mundo de los Niños. She became widely known in 2008, when she was selected to participate on the second season of the Univision beauty pageant series Nuestra Belleza Latina, where the participants were trained rigorously in acting, presenting, dancing and other activities; Toubia was voted first runner-up.
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