
Araceli Jover was born in Melilla, a Spanish region. After living there for five years, her family was forced to move to Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands (Spain) because of her father's work as a soldier. She is the youngest of seven siblings, four sisters and three brothers. During her early years, she wanted to become a dancer. She began dancing at the age of 8. At 14 she dropped out of school and at 15 she won a scholarship from the Comité Hispano Norteamericano. Because of this, she left Spain and moved to New York City in order to continue to study at the School of American Ballet under Martha Graham. After two years and half in the United States, her career then moved on to becoming an actress sometime around 1995–1996. She had her first role in an episode of the TV show Women: Stories of Passion and starred in two international films Tango, and The Ballad of Johnny-Jane. After that, she did more work in TV, before making her first American film debut in Blade, in 1998, as Mercury; the vampire lover of Deacon Frost.

Sense8
TV • 2015

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
TV • 2009

The Idealist
MOVIE • 2015

Blade
MOVIE • 1998

In the Lost Lands
MOVIE • 2025

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
MOVIE • 2011

Impostor
MOVIE • 2001

Little Ashes
MOVIE • 2008

Madame Irma
MOVIE • 2006

The Lookout
MOVIE • 2012

Empire of the Wolves
MOVIE • 2005

Bunker
MOVIE • 2008

April's Shower
MOVIE • 2003

Vampires: Los Muertos
MOVIE • 2002

Regrets
MOVIE • 2009

A Prominent Patient
MOVIE • 2017

Two Worlds
MOVIE • 2007

Haute Cuisine
MOVIE • 2012