Janine Kirk was born in Berlin, Germany as Janine Baumgarten. She discovered her passion for acting at the age of 12 while participating in school and church theatre productions and has loved performing ever since. Janine played the lead role in the locally well known school musical Terra Futura. She earned the opportunity for her first supporting role playing Christa Lenz in the TV mini-series The Swine (1995) with Götz George and Marie Bäumer. After moving to Canada she started working in various projects in the Canadian film industry from short films to TV shows and movie productions. Notably, she landed a role in the TV movie Finding a Killer and plays the lead in A Broken Beat. Janine has recently directed, produced and written her first short film and is now working on production of a feature film.