June Park

**June Park** is a character on Netflix's Tiny Pretty Things. She is portrayed by Daniela Norman.

She is a sweet and petite dancer raised by a strict businesswoman mother. The Archer School of Ballet of Ballet is the only place she feels like she belongs. After what feels like a lifetime playing back-up, she is ready to earn her time in the spotlight, proving to her mother that ballet is where she belongs.

## Early Life

June was raised by her single Korean British mother, Maricel Park. She was unaware of who her biological father was and wasn't keen on finding him. Her mother paid for her dance lessons when she ultimately got accepted into the Archer School of Ballet, but in the novel, Tiny Pretty Things E-Jun Kim entered the American Ballet Conservatory

## Throughout the Series

### Season 1

June's mother informs her that in order for her to stay at the Archer, she must get the lead role in Ramon Costa's new ballet. She is chosen as a finalist and offered the role, pending her performance at the board meeting. However, she is locked out and misses her performance, only to be replaced by Bette. Therefore, her mother tells her she will be withdrawn from the program.Again, this has drastically changed from the book. In the first performance of the novel, gigi (renamed neveah in the series) is cast as sugar plum fairy, with June cast as her understudy,and bette as the snow queen. This is when June's mother decides to withdraw her as she cannot get higher than understudy, despite dancing a last minute Harlequin Doll.

June attends several interviews for academic boarding schools, but purposely blows them so she is not accepted. She hopes this will convince her mother to let her stay at the Archer, however, the plan backfires as her mom decides to enroll her in public school.

In order to be free from her mother, June files for emancipation. Her mother tries to come to an agreement that she stays until the end of the year, but she refuses, saying she wants to stay until graduation. As a result, her mother cuts her off.

When Caleb gets roofied, he realizes that the pills he took were from June's stash. Therefore, she is blamed to have roofied Cassie the night of her accident.

In order to pay her bills, June gets a job with some other dancers as a waitress at the Michi Beach Club. On her first night, she spills a drink on Travis Quinn. She feels bad, but he forgives her and goes for a walk with her. Here, she spills all of her secrets to him, such as how she roofied Cassie to throw her off of her game.

On her next shift, June is promoted to the VIP lounge. Here, she meets Travis again, who convinces her to take a break and pushes her into a swimming pool. He then begins to inappropriately touch her and takes her shoes. When she asks for them back the next day, he refuses and gets mad at her for being a "tease". He also warns her that he has connections throughout the city and threatens to share her secrets.

June loses her job, and warns Madame Dubois of what she faced there. The next day, June is in Dubois' office, where she informs her that she will find a new job. She is instead told that an anonymous donor will cover her expenses.

After hearing that Paige, another waitress and Archer student, was raped by Travis, June goes back to him and pretends to forgive him. However, in reality she is trying to get Travis to confess to watch he did, whilst she is recording. He tells her that he and other men make large donations to the school, in exchange for their pick of girls to hire as waitresses. It is then he realizes that he is being recorded. He begins to attack June, but Bette and Neveah quickly run in and rescue her. The three then decide they need to take these men down.

While June is walking down the street, Travis catches her and chokes her as he threatens her. He has he heard that reporters had been called about the situation, and believes that June called them. He threatens to kill her if she doesn't call them off. He also tries to defend his actions, saying the girls wanted it because of what they were wearing.

## Physical Appearance

June is a pretty young woman with straight black hair and brown eyes. She is 5'7" and has a slender build.

## Personality

June is shown to be a kind and considerate person, when she helped to find obliterate the scam going on. However, she is also very determined and impulsive as she filed to be exonerated from her mother and wants her mother's validation.

Despite all this, she has a few flaws like she can be very emotional which can be both a superpower and a crucial flaw.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* Corps
* Range of Motion
* Class Act
* Dance Dance Revolution
* Split Sole
* Joie de Vivre
* Catch and Release
* Relevé
* It's Not the Walking, It's the Rising
* Push Comes to Shove

## Trivia

* She and Bette have been best friends since they were thirteen years old.
* In the books June's name is E-Jun Kim and her ex-best friend is Sei-Jin Kwan.
* In the books June is anorexic and bulimic.
* In the show June's father is Ramon Costa, but in the books her father is Dom Lucas.
* June was born in London, England and she later moved to New York City. In the books June was born and raised in New York.
* In the show June doesn't care about finding out who her father is. In the books June is determined to find him.