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BIOGRAPHY:

Cheryl Burke is a professional dancer. She is best known for being one of the professional dancers on ABC's Dancing With The Stars, where she was the first female professional to win the show and the first professional to win twice and consecutively.

Her father is of Irish and Russian descent and her mother is Filipino. Her family dances for recreation and has a dance floor at home. At age four, she began taking ballet lessons and performing locally.She then began ballroom dancing and decided to change her focus. She trained in both standard ballroom and Latin dances. She began competing at age 13.



TRIVIA:

• Winner, with her partner 'Emmitt Smith' (qv), of _"Dancing with the Stars" (2005/I)_ (qv) [November 2006].
• Opened her own dance studio, Cheryl Burke Dance, in the spring of 2008.
• Eurasian like fellow actresses 'Kelly Hu' (qv), 'Shannyn Sossamon' (qv), 'Vanessa Hudgens' (qv), 'Jessica Anderson (II)' (qv), 'Devon Aoki' (qv), 'Moon Bloodgood' (qv), 'China Chow' (qv), 'Kristin Kreuk' (qv), 'Jaymee Ong' (qv), 'Maggie Q' (qv), 'Nicole Scherzinger' (qv), 'Monica Young' (qv) and actors 'Anthony Begonia' (qv), 'Andrew Johnston (VII)' (qv), 'Brandon Lee (I)' (qv), 'Keanu Reeves' (qv), 'Rob Schneider (I)' (qv), 'Russell Wong' (qv) and 'Michael Wong (I)' (qv).
• Winner, with her partner 'Drew Lachey' (qv), of _"Dancing with the Stars" (2005/I)_ (qv) [February 2006].
• Is half Filipina, half Irish/Russian
• She began her dancing career when she began training in ballet at the age of 4 and at the age of 11 began ballroom dancing.
• Ranked #98 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
• Taken to the hospital in Seattle on December 18, 2007 with a suspected case of appendicitis. Planning to fly home to San Francisco the next day for a second opinion with her family doctors.