Romina D'Ugo

Acting

Romina D'Ugo

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Romina D'Ugo is a Toronto-born actress and dancer who was a part of the So You Think You Can Dance Canada Top 20. She has guest-starred in Degrassi: Next Generation, Life with Derek, Hairspray and Nikita. D'Ugo is a graduate from the Sheridan Institute's Musical Theatre - Performance program. At age nine, she started taking jazz classes and picked up tap and ballet a year later, traveling across the country participating in several dance competitions. She went on to attend Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts, majoring in dance.

Acting credits

Hairspray poster
6.7

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends and end the racial segregation that has been a staple of the show.

Hairspray

2007

I Like Movies poster
7.0

Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.

I Like Movies

2023

Repo! The Genetic Opera poster
6.3

By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan — and those unable to fulfill their plans have their organs repossessed. In the midst of this, a sickly teenager discovers a shocking secret about herself, her father, and their connection to GeneCo.

Repo! The Genetic Opera

2008

Byeeee poster
NR

After getting busted for defrauding her investors, tech girlboss entrepreneur Andy is heading to her family’s abandoned lakeside cottage for one last weekend before she kills herself.

Byeeee

2026

Portal to Hell poster
7.0

After a debt-collector finds a portal to hell in a washing machine at his local laundromat, he’s propositioned into feeding it sinners to save his neighbor’s soul, maybe even at the expense of his own.

Portal to Hell

2025

The Other Me poster
5.6

When Will Browning is threatened with military summer school if he doesn't get better grades, he decides to do a science project that will definitely get an A. So he buys some Ocean Pups, unhatched sea creatures that will look spectacular, but he hasn't bargained for the cloning agent that the unscrupulous manufacturers have put in the kit. Next thing he knows there's another him.

The Other Me

2000

Silent Witness poster
6.3

Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accused of murdering one of his students. The case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused of murdering his first love.

Silent Witness

2011

Riverworld poster
4.7

Welcome to Riverworld, a place of strange, watery beauty and the current abode of a fascinating cast of the recently (and not-so-recently) dead. It certainly isn't Heaven, but it just might be Hell.

Riverworld

2010

New Year poster
4.0

A group of 20-somethings reunite at a New Year's Eve bash in middle-class suburbia. But when a near-death experience, a pregnancy, and the appearance of past rivals disrupts the night, how will each see their place in the world come new year's day?

New Year

2011

BRUTL poster
NR

Two couples’ weekend getaway spirals into chaos after using a new app that reveals the worst things any has ever said about them.

BRUTL

A Date with Miss Fortune poster
5.4

When a struggling writer meets a superstitious Portuguese beauty, he has no idea that his life and luck are both about to change. A romantic comedy about cross-cultural relationships.

A Date with Miss Fortune

2015

How She Move poster
4.8

After the death of Raya Green's sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop which is the dance crew leader. She then meets Michelle and does a stomp battle with her. They become enemies then friends later on. Her uptight mom pushes her to pass the test to get into Medical school, but she thinks she failed....

How She Move

2008

Degrassi Goes Hollywood poster
7.8

The gang travels to Los Angeles, California as they attempt to live out their dreams.

Degrassi Goes Hollywood

2009

Cycles poster
NR

CYCLES is a playful, sweetheart choreography, circling through the madness of grief.

Cycles

2016

Turn the Beat Around poster
5.2

An idealist young dancer named Zoe tackles the difficult issue of resurrecting disco dancing in today’s music business. She meets hostility beyond resistance on every dance floor where she spins and twirls. Fortunately, she has at least one ally, a nightclub owner and visionary named Michael who shares her zeal for the long-ago dance craze. With money to burn, Michael arranges for Zoe to test market bringing back disco, even with rival choreographers like Malika. Soon dance takes a two-step in the wrong direction when hard-hearted Malika and Michael start vying to become Zoe’s dance partner.

Turn the Beat Around

2010

Funkytown poster
5.3

Set in Montreal during the disco phenomenon some 35 years ago, Funkytown follows the life of a group of colorful characters. We follow their lives and tribulations as everyone converges on a regular basis at Montreal's hot disco spot: Starlight. Along the way, several events take place that change these characters' lives. As these characters' lives unfold, the Parti Québécois takes power changing the cultural landscape in Quebec while the disco craze slowly fades. While we keep up with these various characters - it is Bastien who is a central part of this story. His drug addiction, dreams to become an actor and womanizing - make him the "bigger than life" typical 70s character around which the whole story revolves.

Funkytown

2011

His Father's Son poster
NR

An Iranian-Canadian family struggles to reconcile with their past after news of an unexpected inheritance.

His Father's Son

2025

The Daughter I Gave Away poster
NR

Fifteen years after Cynthia put her daughter up for adoption, she learns that the girl has gone missing and immediately joins the search, determined to save the daughter she never knew.

The Daughter I Gave Away

2024

Sacred Creatures poster
NR

Sacred Creatures explores family dynamics, desire, prophets and modern magical thinking. Three estranged siblings reunite in Italy years after the middle sister had a psychotic episode she believed to have been a spiritual awakening. As her behaviour grows increasingly strange, tensions between the siblings rise while a group of local acolytes find her increasingly compelling.

Sacred Creatures

2026

Minus Lara poster
NR

A young woman is transported back to the 1900's by the elegance of an antique store piano.

Minus Lara

You're My Best Friend poster
NR

A freshly single woman tests the viability of potential suitors by how well they deal with a larger-than-life cockroach.

You're My Best Friend

2023