Gina Torres is well known for her role as Jessica Pearson on USA Network’s hit original series “Suits.” Torres is taking her character to Chicago, where she will topline her own UNTITLED "Suits" spinoff show for USA, which is set to premiere in 2019. The role of Jessica has been a life changing one, earning Torres an ALMA Award, an Imagen Award (as well as multiple additional Imagen nominations), and the National Hispanic Media Coalition’s Award for Outstanding Performance in a Television Series and the Visionary Award from the LA Femme Film Festival. The spinoff series will center on Jessica Pearson as she enters the dirty world of Chicago politics. Torres also recently appeared on the Shonda Rhimes’ series, “The Catch,” starring Peter Krause and Mireille Enos.
Included amongst Torres’s most notable television credits are her performances as the Russo Cuban assassin Anna Espinosa on “Alias,” the shotgun-toting mercenary Zoe Washburn on Joss Whedon&
Gina Torres is well known for her role as Jessica Pearson on USA Network’s hit original series “Suits.” Torres is taking her character to Chicago, where she will topline her own UNTITLED "Suits" spinoff show for USA, which is set to premiere in 2019. The role of Jessica has been a life changing one, earning Torres an ALMA Award, an Imagen Award (as well as multiple additional Imagen nominations), and the National Hispanic Media Coalition’s Award for Outstanding Performance in a Television Series and the Visionary Award from the LA Femme Film Festival. The spinoff series will center on Jessica Pearson as she enters the dirty world of Chicago politics. Torres also recently appeared on the Shonda Rhimes’ series, “The Catch,” starring Peter Krause and Mireille Enos.
Included amongst Torres’s most notable television credits are her performances as the Russo Cuban assassin Anna Espinosa on “Alias,” the shotgun-toting mercenary Zoe Washburn on Joss Whedon’s “Firefly” (whom she also played in his feature film SERENITY) and the soul-eating Jasmine on Whedon’s “Angel.”
Additional television credits include “Hannibal,” “Revenge,” “Huge,” “The Shield,” “24,” “Pushing Daisies,” “Flash Forward,” “Gossip Girl,” “Boondocks,” and “The Vampire Diaries.” She has also voiced the roles of Vixen in “The Justice League” series and Superwoman in “Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths” opposite James Woods.
She began her onscreen career with roles on “Law & Order,” “One Life to Live,” “Any Day Now” and “La Femme Nikita” but it was her collaboration with producers Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert on four different shows – “MANTIS,” “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,” “Xena: Warrior Princess” and “Cleopatra 2525” (the latter of which earned her an ALMA Award) - that brought her to the masses and promptly shifted her career.
Torres’s film credits include THE MATRIX RELOADED and THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS, JAM, SOUTH OF PICO, I THINK I LOVE MY WIFE with Chris Rock, HAIR SHOW with Mo’Nique, and DON’T LET ME DROWN (critic’s choice at the Sundance Film Festival 2009).
