Biography
In 2019, Spin-Off the Force Maja series will be released on TV screens, telling the continuation of the history of prosperous lawyer Jessica Pearson. The main role in the continuation of the legal surgery will play the American actress Gina Torres, known on the films "Matrix: Reboot" and "Matrix: Revolution", as well as on the television show "Firefly" and "Xena - Queen of Warriors".Childhood and youth
Gina Torres was born in Manhattan on April 25, 1969 in the large family of Cuban emigrants. Richard Torres, Father of the future actress, worked in the printing house of the Hispanic newspaper La Pensa. Rebecca's mother led a household and raised 3 daughters.
When Gina was small, the head of the family received a position in New York Daily News, and they moved first to Washington Heights and then to Bronx. The new House of Torresov was not far from the Grand Competition Boulevard, in the area intense with Latin Americans, so the children from the Small years have imbued with a multilayer ethnic culture and incendiary music.
From parents, the girls adopted the love of the orchestra of Johnny Pacheco and the Cuban singer Seli Cruz, and Muslose, began to listen to modern melodies performed by ABBA, LED Zeppelin and other popular groups.
It is not surprising that Gina, the most gifted from the sisters, wanted to be like her idols and sought to fulfill the dream from childhood by any way. The first step was to enter the arts of Fiorello H. Laguardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts to the vocal compartment, where the owner of mezzo-soprano was taught to sing Opera, as well as jazz and evangelical compositions.
Congenital talent and acquired knowledge allowed the girl with success to withstand exams in several New York colleges, but due to the lack of money Gina could not continue their studies.
Instead of the university, the future actress went to work in the Administration of the Broadway Theater and in time began to receive small roles in musical performances that took place on the local scene.
Gina enjoyed the applause of the public, but secretly sought more. She walked on film transfers to serials and films and eventually approached the episodic role in the rating television project "Law and Order".
Films
Cinobiography Gina Torres began in 1992 with small roles in criminal series and soap operations. And the first significant work was the appearance of Agnes Nixon's multiserial family Drama in 17 episodes "One life to live."
The producers fell in love with the dark actress with an exotic appearance, which, with 178 cm height weighed only 60 kg, and began to regularly invite her to television. By 1996, Torres starred in 7 series, among which there were such popular projects as the "Dark Angel" with Eric Roberts in the lead role and "New York Police", broadcasting on the ABC channel.
After that, Torres made his debut in Big Cinema, playing Kameo in the romantic film Michael Goldenberg "Bed from Roses" and the play by the play of John Robin Baitz "Fire Substitch".
In 1997, the actress returned to television and received roles in 2 New Zealand serials based on mythological plots. At first, Gina appeared in the image of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra in the "Xena-Queen of Warriors", and then, developing the history of the pirated leader of the Nebula, worked 8 episodes in the "amazing wanders of Hercules" and demonstrated a slim-taut body in the leather dress like a swimsuit.
These roles have determined the further fate of the actress and helped it become the main character of the American science fiction show "Cleopatra 2525", launched under the Universal Action Pack program. The story of 3 beauties struggling with armed with aircraft, occupied the land in the 26th century, was based on the plot. Playing the leader of the Hel group, Torres at a weak scenario showed the talent of a real actress.
Due to this, in 2001 she received the ALMA premium and got to the shooting platform of the 2nd and 3rd parts of the best-selling "Matrix". The role of the widow of the doser, piloting an anti-gravity ship "Nebuchadnezzar", brought Gine fame and allowed to appear on screens more often.
In 2002, Torres became interested in the scenario of the science fiction series "Firefly" and reincarnated in Zoe Voshburn, the assistant of the Serenity commander of Mel Reynyds performed by Nitana Phillion. After the closure of the project, the actors continued joint shooting and appeared in the full-length continuation of the Space Western, which was called the "Mission" Series ".
Since 2005, despite the demand from the directors of serious cinema, Gina chose to work on television. She received major roles in the dramatic TV series "Negotiators" and "Pukhliki", and then participated in the individual episodes of such a show, as "Remember what will be", "Gossip", "Vampire Diaries" and "Transformers: Prime".
These works have become a kind of training in front of the Force Major project, in which the actress played the role of the owner of the law firm Jessica Pearson. Torres instantly got into the image of the "steep" advocate, dressed in stunning suits and high heels. Holding a hand on the pulse, the power supervisor controlled every step of the company's employees and sacrificed the sake of the sake of a successful outcome of any disassembled business.
In the first seasons, Jessica was the embodiment of a strong woman who was not fond of romantics and not capable of tender feelings. It impressed Gina, but she wanted to show a little love. The creators of the series went towards actress and in the 6th season allowed her heroine to arrange a personal life, forcing the actress to complete the shooting in the project.
Gina with sadness accepted parting with his beloved role and tried to distract, raging the filmography of roles in the series "Star Wars: Rebels", "Extreme Cosmos" and others. But in the depths of the soul, she hoped that the story of Jessica was not finished yet. The joy was not the limit when the creators of "Force Major" offered Torres to play in Spin-off the original project and 25 April 2018 released a pilot series of a show called "Pearson".
Personal life
In the youth Torres rarely fond of men. The real love that Lawrence Fisborn became, the actress met in the early 2000s on the film crew of the film "Matrix: Reboot".
In February 2001, it became known about the engagement of the star couple, and on September 22, 2002, the lovers got married at the Kloisters Museum in New York. 5 years after the wedding, Dalajl daughter was born from the actors, which became a loved one of the family and the best friend of Children Fisborn from the first marriage.
In the early 2010s, Torres and her husband were depicted a married couple in the television series "Hannibal", and in 2017 it was unexpectedly announced a divorce.
Therefore, on May 19, 2018, the actress in proud loneliness was present at the Royal Wedding Actress Megan Marchal, shot with Gina in the serial "Fors Major".
In the process of divorce, Parazzi was published in the network of Torres photography in the company of an unknown man. When the spouses officially broke up, in the foreign media there was information that the actress began relations with the entrepreneur named Kevin Wright.
Gina Torres is now
Gina Torres is looking forward to the premiere of the series "Pearson" and sometimes publishes the photo of the changed image in Instagram.
Now she is filmed in new episodes of the show and by mid-2019 plans to complete the work on the 1st season.
Filmography
- 1997 - "Xena - Queen of Warriors"
- 1997-1999 - "Amazing Feats of Hercules"
- 2000-2001 - "Cleopatra 2525"
- 2002-2003 - "Firefly"
- 2003 - "Matrix: Reboot"
- 2003 - "Matrix: Revolution"
- 2004-2006 - "League of Justice"
- 2005 - "Serenity Mission"
- 2006-2007 - "Negotiators"
- 2008-2009 - "Elai Stone"
- 2010 - "Puffles"
- 2013 - "Castle"
- 2001-2018 - "Force Majer"