Gina Torres Biography
Gina Torres is an American movie and television actress. Torres has appeared in many television series including Hercules. The Legendary Journeys, Xena. Warrior Princess, the short-lived Cleopatra 2525, Alias, Firefly, Angel, 24, Suits, The Shield, and West world.
She also starred opposite Chris Rock in the feature film I Think I Love My Wife. As Carla in the independent film South of Pico. And she also reprised her Firefly role in its feature film sequel Serenity.
Torres has had a main role on the USA Network series Suits as Jessica Pearson. Torres and her ex-husband Laurence Fishburne played a married couple on the NBC television series Hannibal.
Gina Torres Age | How Old Is Gina Torres?
Gina was born on April 25, 1969 in New York City, U.S. She is [agecalc birthdate=1969-04-25]
Gina Torres Parents
Torres was born to Richard and Rebecca at the Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital in Manhattan. Her parents were both multiracial Cuban descent and her father then worked as a typesetter for La Prensa and The New York Daily News.
She was born the youngest of three children and her family lived briefly in Washington Heights before moving to The Bronx. Gina also speaks Spanish.
Gina Torres And Laurence Fishburne | Gina Torres Laurence Fishburne | Gina Torres Husband
On September 22, 2002, Laurence Fishburne and Torres married at The Cloisters museum in New York City. They had become engaged in February 2001. On September 20, 2017, they announced that they had separated and had been keeping the separation private. On November 2, 2017, Laurence filed for divorce.
Gina Torres Daughter
Torres and Fishburne welcomed their first child together, a daughter Delilah, in June 2007.
Actress Gina Torres
Torres is a gifted mezzo-soprano, and began singing at an early age. She attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City.
Torres also trained in opera and jazz and performed in a gospel choir. She applied and was accepted to several colleges but she could not afford to attend. She instead chose to pursue her dream of being a performer.
Torres won the ALMA Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Syndicated Drama Series for her role in Cleopatra 2525 in 2001.
Gina Torres Angel
Her role as Jasmine in Angel earned her a nomination for the International Press Academy’s Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Drama in 2004.
Gina Torres Matrix
She has had film appearances in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Torres appeared in seven episodes of the third season on 24 as Julia Milliken, a woman who has an affair with the White House Chief of Staff and becomes involved in a Presidential scandal in 2004.
She was tapped for the pilot episode of Soccer Moms in 2005. She also voiced the character of Vixen in numerous episodes of the animated series Justice League Unlimited in 2005 and also replaced the voice-over of Jada Pinkett Smith’s character Niobe in The Matrix Online.
Gina Torres Firefly
Torres is also known for her role in Fox’s short-lived Firefly series, which lasted for only one season. She then reprised her Firefly role as Zoe in the film Serenity (2005). She began her role as Cheryl Carrera in the short-lived drama series Standoff on the FOX network in 2006.
Gina’s character is the Supervisory Special Agent in Charge for Crisis Negotiation Unit, FBI Los Angeles. She also appeared in the film I Think I Love My Wife, playing the wife of Chris Rock’s character.
In 2009, Edward Allen Bernero, an executive producer, cast Torres for the television pilot Washington Field on CBS. The show was about the National Capital Response Squad, an FBI unit composed of elite experts in various fields who travel worldwide to respond to events that affect American interests.
From mid-2013, Torres was no longer the voice of Wonder Woman in the DC Universe Online MMORPG since the part was recast, and she also played the role of Arachnid in the Transformers Prime cartoon.
In 2013, Torres reunited with Nathan Fillion, her former Firefly co-star, in an episode of Fillion’s television show, Castle.
Gina Torres Suits
Gina was cast as main character Jessica Pearson on the USA Network legal drama Suits in 2011.
It was announced that Torres would be leaving the cast of Suits following the summer segment of season six in 2016. In addition to Gina’s contract being up, she stated she had grown tired of traveling between Toronto, where Suits is filmed, and her home in Los Angeles. .
She also returned to Suits for the season six finale, airing on March 1, 2017. Following ABC’s cancellation of The Catch in May 2017, Gina has returned to Suits as a recurring cast member in season seven.
She plays the role of CAPCOM in the updated version of Walt Disney World’s Mission: Space.
It was announced in March 2018 that Torres would executive produce and star in a Suits spin-off centered around her character, Jessica Pearson.
Gina Torres The Catch
Torres joined the season two cast of ABC’s The Catch, which was filmed in L.A.
Gina Torres Height | How Tall Is Gina Torres?
The Suits star stands at a height of 1.78m.
