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Gina Torres
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OverviewAI-generated
Gina Torres is an American actress and voice actor born in Manhattan on April 25, 1969. She began her work period in 1992 and has worked in television, stage, and film. She is educated at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and speaks English. Her voice type is mezzo-soprano. She is married to Laurence Fishburne and has one child.
She is also listed as an author with ten works, including titles such as *Essential Review Guide for Passing the MBLEx Licensing Exam : 2016 Edition* and various *Don't Panic!* series books for massage certification. In music databases, she is categorized as a female artist associated with alt rock, folk, indie, and rock genres. She has 9 listeners and a playcount of 118 on Last.fm. Her name appears in 213 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 33 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Essential Review Guide for Passing the MBLEx Licensing Exam : 2016 Edition
- Don't Panic! Series' Massage Therapy Exam Review Flashcard Book
- Don't Panic! Questions and Answers for Passing the Massage Certification Exam
- Don't Panic! Questions and Answers to Help You Pass the Massage Therapy National Exam
- Massage Therapy Student Planner
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · New York City, New York, USA
Gina Torres (born April 25, 1969) is an American television and movie actress. She is known for her roles in science fiction and fantasy. She has appeared in many television series, including Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (as Nebula), Xena: Warrior Princess (as Cleopatra), the short-lived Cleopatra 2525, as well as Alias (as Anna Espinosa), Firefly (as series regular Zoe Washburne), Angel (as…
Known for
- Memory of a Killer — Special Agent Linda Grant2026
- The Everything Pot — Gail2024
- Give Me an A — Violeta Gonzalez2023
- The Perfect Find — Darcy2023
- The Legend of Vox Machina — Keeper Yennen (voice)2022
- The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self2022
- Troubled Waters — Janice Waters2020
- 9-1-1: Lone Star — Tommy Vega2020
- Selah and the Spades — Maybelle Summers2019
- Dispel — Celeste Skygoode2019
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1991-01-23
Discography
- TORRES2013
- Torres / Motel Beds2014
- New Skin2014
- Strange Hellos2015
- Sprinter2015
- Skim2017
- Three Futures2017
- Gracious Day2018
- Too Big for the Glory Hole2019
- Dressing America2020
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9
- Total plays
- 118
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gina+Torres">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,887x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,971x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,699x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,235x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1969-04-25 ) April 25, 1969 (age 57) , New York City , U.S.
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1992–present
- Spouse
- Laurence Fishburne ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2002 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2018 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gina
- Family name
- Torres
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Manhattan
- Spouse
- Laurence Fishburne
- Occupation
- voice actor
- Educated at
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Gina Torres by Gage Skidmore cropped.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
- Voice type
- mezzo-soprano
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Gina Torres
- date of birth
- 1969-04-25
- name in native language
- Gina Torres
- start of work period
- 1992-00-00
Sources (9)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Gina Torres (born April 25, 1969) is an American actress. Her starring roles include Zoë Washburne in the science fiction series Firefly (2002–2003) and its feature film sequel Serenity (2005), and as Jessica Pearson in the legal drama series Suits (2011–2018) and its spin-off series Pearson (2019). Most recently, she starred on the series 9-1-1: Lone Star (2021–2025).
Early life, family and education
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