Georgina Amorós

Georgina Amorós is a Spanish actress known for her television work on series including Elite, Welcome to the Family and Locked Up. She is also known for promoting causes through social media and at events. She will be in the 2020 film Rifkin's Festival, marking her first fully English-speaking role.

Georgina Amorós
Amorós in 2020
Born (1998-04-30) April 30, 1998
Barcelona, Spain
NationalitySpanish
OccupationActress
Years active2014–present

Early and personal life

Amorós was born in Barcelona, in Catalonia. She speaks fluent Catalan, Spanish, and French, as well as English,[1] and says that she "could not live" without the sea and the coast.[2] She is a feminist and campaigns against LGBT+ discrimination,[3] and created the campaign 'Por Un Solo Voto', encouraging young people in Spain to use their vote; campaign videos have featured her various co-stars.[4] In 2019, she received death threats on Twitter because of her character on Elite, and deleted her account.[2]

Career

Amorós has said that she began acting as a child in small productions, and had to be dragged away at the end because she enjoyed it so much. When she was 17, she moved to Los Angeles, United States, to study acting.[2] Since 2017 she has worked on several Netflix series,[3] including Welcome to the Family, not a Netflix original, where she had her first leading role as Àlex.[5] Her character's season 2 story was teased in a video by Catalan network TV3 calling it an "amorous plot".[6] Of her works, she has said that she is the most proud of Welcome to the Family, her only Catalan-language work, because of how much she learnt.[7] She also starred in prison drama Locked Up in its final season, playing Fatima Amir, the daughter of Najwa Nimri's character.[8][9]

In 2019 she joined the cast of Netflix original Elite, playing Cayetana, the school cleaner's daughter who is also on a scholarship there. The character, who is a social media influencer, explores how people aren't always what they appear like online (the show's various characters are all not as they seem in different ways); Amorós says that her character is "apparently happy but has a lot of levels".[4] The media compares Cayetana with Amorós herself, noting that the actress shares unflattering photos on Instagram and uses her popularity to promote causes.[4] Also in 2019, she was cast in the Woody Allen film Rifkin's Festival, to be released in 2020, an opportunity she was excited about after having seen Vicky Cristina Barcelona and knowing that the Hollywood director had been in her hometown, Barcelona.[2] In this film, she acts in English.[9]

Filmography

Television
Year(s) Work Original network Role Ref
2019–present Elite Netflix Cayetana Grajera Pando [10]
2018–2019 Locked Up FOX España Fátima Amin [3]
Welcome to the Family TV3 Alexandra "Àlex" Argenté [10]
2016 Seis Hermanas TVE Lorenza [11]
2015 Águila Roja [3]
Bajo sospecha Antena 3 Emilia "Emi" Vega Castro [3]
2014 Velvet Ana (young) [3]

Film
Year Work Director Role Ref
TBA Rifkin's Festival Woody Allen [2]
2017 It's for You Own Good Carlos Therón Marta [3]
2016 Tini: The Movie Juan Pablo Buscarini Eloísa Martínez [12]

References
  1. "Élite: ¿Qué tienen en común Cayetana y Georgina Amorós?". mui (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  2. Alarcón, Anna (2019-12-05). "GEORGINA AMORÓS: "Decidí borrarme Twitter porque llegué a recibir amenazas de muerte"". vanidad.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  3. "Élite 2, Cayetana: ¿quién es Georgina Amorós? Todo sobre la actriz de 'Vis a vis' que llegó a la serie de Netflix". Mag. (in Spanish). 2019-09-14. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  4. "The New Girl In 'Elite' Has Already Played The Love Interest Of One Of Her Costars". Bustle. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  5. Iglesias, Carolina, #UnaCañaCon Georgina Amorós (in Spanish), retrieved 2019-12-29
  6. TV3, La trama amorosa de l'Àlex (in Catalan), retrieved 2020-01-05
  7. Iglesias, Carolina, #UnaCañaCon Georgina Amorós (in Spanish), event occurs at 4:55 - 5:10, retrieved 2019-12-29
  8. "Georgina Amorós". Vis a Vis en FOX – Cuarta temporada (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  9. "Georgina Amorós: la actriz de "Vis a Vis" que se sumó a la segunda temporada de "Élite"". Pagina 7 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  10. Fern, Celia (2019-09-09). "The Cast of Élite Might Look Familiar to Fans of La Casa de Papel". Oprah Magazine. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  11. Playz (2019-09-06). "Sé lo qué hicieron los protagonistas de 'Élite' en Playz y Televisión Española". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  12. "Georgina Amorós, actriz revelación de la segunda temporada de "Élite"". larepublica.pe (in Spanish). 2019-09-10. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
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