Happy Birthday Gina Torres!

Happy Birthday Gina Torres!  An early genre part for Torres was as Dr. Amy Ellis in the tv superhero movie of M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994).  She played Magdalena on the soap opera, One Life to Live, and then Neill in 1996.  Next, Torres played Cleoptra in “The King of Assassins” (1997) episode of Xena: Warrior Princess.  She also had a longer part as Nebula, princess of Sumeria, in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1997-1999).  Torres had a lead part as Helen Carter, better known as Hel, in Cleopatra 2525. (2000-2001).  She also sang the opening song, “In the Year 2525.”  Torres played Anna Espinoza, an assassin rival to Sydney Bristow, in 2001 episodes of Alias.  Gina Torres’ iconic part that won the hearts of every Browncoat playing Zoe Washburne in Firefly (2002-2003).  She was then Jasmine, former member of the Powers That Be, in Angel (2003).  

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Torres followed it up by playing Cas, defending the last stronghold of humanity, Zion, as Cas in The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003).  Then, Julia Miliken, was played by Torres in 24 (2004).  In 2005, she returned as Zoe Washburn in the film, Serenity (2005).  Torres voiced Vixen in Justice League Unlimited (2004-2006).  She also returned for a few episodes of Alias (2005-2006) as Anna Espinoza.  Torres then voiced Airachnid in Transformers Prime (2011-2013).  Her long running role was as Jessica Pearson in Suits (2011-2018).  Bella Crawford, was a patient of Hannibal Lector, in the series Hannibal (2013-2015).  Torres was also in Alan Tudyk’s series Con Man, playing Grace in the episode, “Voiced Over” (2015).  She voiced the bounty hunter, Ketsu Onyo, in Star Wars: Rebels (2015-2018) and also two episodes of Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (2017).  Torres played Lauren in the sci fi series, Westworld (2016-2018).  Gina Torres was in the series Pearson based on her Suits character, Jessica Pearson.  She is currently Tommy Vega in 9-1-1: Lone Star!  Happy Birthday Gina Torres! 

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