21 Facts About Gina Torres

Gina Torres was born on April 25,1969 and is an American actress.

Gina Torres's starring roles include Zoe Washburne in the science fiction series Firefly and its feature film sequel Serenity, and as Jessica Pearson in the legal drama series Suits and its spin-off series Pearson.

Gina Torres's father worked as a typesetter for La Prensa and the New York Daily News.

Gina Torres trained in opera and jazz and performed in a gospel choir.

Gina Torres applied and was accepted to several colleges but could not afford to attend.

Gina Torres chose instead to pursue a career as an actress.

In 2001, Gina Torres won the ALMA Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Syndicated Drama Series for her role in Cleopatra 2525.

Gina Torres starred as Zoe Washburne in Fox's short-lived Firefly series, which lasted only one season, in 2002.

In 2004, Gina 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 that same year, Gina Torres was nominated for the International Press Academy's Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Drama, for her role as Jasmine in Angel.

Gina Torres reprised her Firefly role as Zoe in the film Serenity.

In 2006, Gina Torres began her role as Cheryl Carrera in the short-lived drama series Standoff on the Fox network.

Gina Torres appeared in the film I Think I Love My Wife, playing the wife of Chris Rock's character.

Gina Torres was cast in Washington Field, a 2009 CBS television pilot from executive producer Edward Allen Bernero, about the National Capital Response Squad, a unit of the FBI made up of elite experts in different areas who travel around the world, responding to events that affect American interests.

Gina Torres was the voice of Wonder Woman in DC Universe Online massively multiplayer online role-playing game until mid 2013 when the part was recast, as well as Airachnid in the Transformers Prime cartoon.

In 2011, Gina Torres was cast as main character Jessica Pearson on the USA Network legal drama Suits.

In 2016, it was announced that Gina Torres would be leaving the cast of Suits following the summer segment of season six.

Gina Torres returned to Suits for the season six finale, which aired on March 1,2017.

Gina Torres plays the role of CAPCOM in the updated version of Walt Disney World's Mission: Space.

Gina Torres was the stepmother to Fishburne's two children from his previous marriage to actress Hajna O Moss.

On January 1,2020, Gina Torres was a Grand Marshal of the 2020 Rose Parade.