Tonya Kinzinger was born on June 10, 1968 in Monroe (U.S.A). Child, it impassions himself for the dance and leaves a12 years the family house to join one of the largest schools of New York. It is there that the chance crosses its way. It meets a photographer who urges it to pose like model, then sign a contract with an agency which sends it in Paris. At the beginning of the Nineties it gives up its career of mannequin to devote itself to its passion: the comedy. It turns to the sides of Alain Delon in Dance hall Machine then in several telefilms, but the dedication arrives when it is committed in 1996 to interpret the role of Jessica in Under the Sun. Married since 1998 with Bernard Lignon, Tonya since gave rise to Sacha in 2003 and the parents await a new happy event for the middle of the year 2005.