Emeraude Toubia is a Canadian actress best known for her work in the Freeform fantasy series Shadowhunters, and Venevisión telenovelas Cosita linda, and Voltea pa' que te enamores. She is also an accomplished model and dancer. A Montreal native, she grew up in Texas and has always been interested in performing. Since she was a child, she had been trained in various dance forms. When she was 15 years old, she began competing in beauty pageants. In 1999, she made her first on-screen appearance in Televisa's children's program El Mundo de los Niños. Toubia garnered significant fame in 2008, when she took part in the second season of the Univision beauty pageant series Nuestra Belleza Latina. She made her acting debut in 2010, portraying a receptionist in an episode of Telemundo’s telenovela Aurora. In 2015, she appeared in her first film the action-drama Tattooed Love. For her performance in Shadowhunters, Toubia was nominated for the Teen Choice Awards for Choice TV Actress: Fantasy/Sci-Fi in 2017 and 2018.
