- Born
- Birth nameKarina Ronquillo
- Nicknames
- Kari
- KJ
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Karina Ronquillo Junker, known professionally as Karina Junker, is one of Hollywood’s most sought-after bilingual voiceover artists, known for her outstanding skill in speaking both English and Spanish without an accent. She is the Spanish voiceover announcer for the U.S. Department of Defense and was formerly the voice of global campaigns for Patrón Tequila, IHG Hotels & Resorts, Pringles, Star Wars: Visions, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Ford, Best Buy, Starbucks, Chrysler, Hershey’s, Cacique, UPS Latin America, L’Oréal, among others.
Karina’s on-screen credits include the Emmy-winning Apple TV+ series Lessons in Chemistry, the Academy Award-winning film Bombshell, Guest House, Kingdom, and Mercury Plains.
Karina is a graduate of Columbia University and holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology. She completed post-graduate acting studies at Michael Howard Studios with world-renowned voice teacher Patsy Rodenburg. Her undergraduate education began at Universidad Iberoamericana in the Dominican Republic and concluded at the InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico. Her first on-camera TV commercial campaign was for Tricom, filmed in Santo Domingo in 2003.
In addition to her career in Hollywood, Karina is an 18-time marathoner, having completed major races across the United States and Europe, including the New York City Marathon, Chicago Marathon, Houston Marathon, Frankfurt Marathon, and Paris Marathon. She also served as a pacer and marathon coach for the Los Angeles Marathon from 2017 to 2019.
Karina is an active member of SAG-AFTRA and the Television Academy (Emmys®) in the Performers and Commercials Peer Groups. She is also a devoted advocate for immigrant and Latino communities in Los Angeles, using her platform to bring attention to the human impact of federal immigration enforcement.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- In 1998, Junker went to Najayo, Dominican Republic to do community service for two weeks during the summer. She loved the DR so much that she decided to stay in Santo Domingo and go to college. Junker attended Universidad Iberoamericana and studied psychology from 1998 to 2001.
- In 2001, Junker transferred her college credits from the Dominican Republic to the InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. She completed her senior year of college there and graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in psychology.
- In January 2004, Junker began graduate school at Columbia University in New York City. Three months later, Karina's mother was in an automobile accident that left her in a vegetative state. Junker felt she had no other option but to continue her studies. Despite the difficulty and hardship, Junker graduated in 2006 and obtained her Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in clinical psychology. Her mother was in a persistent vegetative state for nine years and passed away in 2013.
- Spanish is her native language.
- Junker's first TV commercial was in June 2003 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The TV and print ad was for Tricom, which is now known as Altice Dominicana.
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