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News for 1/8/2007


Laurence Fishburne, Gina Torres Expecting

By Julie Jordan
People.com


Actor Lawrence Fishburne and his actress wife Gina Torres are expecting a child, PEOPLE has learned exclusively. Torres's rep confirms the actress is due this summer.

The couple was married in 2002 and this is their first child together; Fishburne, 45, has two children from his previous marriage to Hanja Moss.

Torres, 37 (who stars in the FOX drama Standoff), will costar in the upcoming Chris Rock film I Think I Love My Wife. Fishburne can currently be seen in the Emilio Estevez-directed Bobby.



News for 11/27/2005


'Serenity' Star Goes 'South of Pico'


LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com)- Gina Torres and Kip Pardue will topline "South of Pico," an indie drama.

The film will mark the theatrical directing debut of Ernst Gossner and will begin production this week in Los Angeles, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Written by Gossner and Richard Marcus, the film is an ensemble about four people who witness an accidental death. Paul Hipp ("Face/Off"), Henry Simmons ("NYPD Blue"), Jimmy Bennett ("Hostage") and Soren Fulton ("Thunderbirds") also star.

Torres is best known for her collaborations with Joss Whedon on "Angel" and "Firefly," as well as the feature "Serenity." The actress has also been seen in the second and third films in the "Matrix" trilogy.

"Driven" star Pardue has been seen (at least by somebody) in "Undiscovered" and "Loggerheads" this fall.



News for 6/16/2005


'Firefly' Relights on Sci Fi


LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Just in time to stir up some advance hype for the movie based on it, the cult series "Firefly" is returning to television.

The Sci Fi Channel has picked up the rights to Joss Whedon's "space Western" -- including three episodes never aired on TV -- and will begin airing it Friday, July 22. It will air at 7 p.m. ET, leading into the cable network's lineup of original series -- the two "Stargate" shows and "Battlestar Galactica," which open their new seasons the previous week.

"Firefly's" Sci Fi debut will come about two months before the scheduled release of Universal Pictures' "Serenity," a feature film based on the series written and directed by Whedon ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"). Universal and the Sci Fi Channel are both part of the NBC Universal media conglomerate. Sci Fi picked up the show from Twentieth Television, a News Corp. sibling of the FOX network, where "Firefly" first aired, and 20th Century Fox TV, which produced the series.

Set 500 years from now, "Firefly" follows the crew of a small, vagabond transport ship called the Serenity. Captained by Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), Serenity and its crew are perpetually on the run from the totalitarian Alliance, and Mal often resort to taking extralegal jobs to keep the ship flying.

The show also stars Gina Torres ("Alias," "Angel"), Adam Baldwin ("The Inside"), Morena Baccarin, Alan Tudyk ("Into the West"), Sean Maher ("The $treet"), Summer Glau ("The 4400"), Jewel Staite ("Wonderfalls") and Ron Glass ("Barney Miller"). All of them are reprising their roles in "Serenity."



News for 3/7/2005


According to the Hollywood Reporter Gina Torres has been tapped to star opposite Kristin Davis in ABC's "Soccer Moms." "Soccer Moms," from Touchstone TV, revolves around two suburban housewives (Davis, Torres) who team up as private investigators.

Gina Torres, seen in the two most recent "Matrix" movies, next will be seen in Joss Whedon's "Serenity." She is repped by the Metropolitan Talent Agency.



News for 2/21/2005


Gina Torres Assumes a Former 'Alias'

By Kate O'Hare


LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Fresh off her return engagement to writer/producer/director Joss Whedon's futuristic Western world in "Serenity," the upcoming film version of his short-lived FOX science-fiction series "Firefly," Gina Torres is getting together with a few more old friends when she reprises the role of K-Directorate agent Anna Espinosa in two episodes of ABC's "Alias."

Anna was last seen in season one, having one of her many battles with secret agent Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner). With the show now in its fourth season, where's Anna been all this time?

"She was presumed dead," Torres says. "It's almost a guarantee they'll bring you back. You never see me die. I just sort of disappear into the night. I think their way of explaining it was, they have a conversation, trying to bring everybody up to speed, and they said, 'I thought she was dead.'"

In real life, Torres went on to do "Firefly," followed by stints on Whedon's "Angel" on The WB, along with FOX's "24." She also appeared in "Matrix Reloaded" and "Matrix Revolutions," which starred her husband, Laurence Fishburne.

"The timing was just wrong for three years," Torres says. "It was incredibly frustrating because I loved the show, and I wanted a piece of all that, what was going on, especially because Anna was introduced in such a wonderful way. So I thought it was incredibly flattering and so wonderful that they, every year, kept me in mind. When it happened, it happened in a great way."

Torres' episodes are "Echoes," airing Wednesday, Feb. 23, and "A Man of His Word," airing Wednesday, March 2 (9 p.m. ET, both nights).

Also returning for the two is David Anders, reprising his role as the nefarious assassin Julian Sark.

"Anna and Sark have a thing," Torres says, "but it may not be the kind of thing people were thinking."

During Anna's first appearance, she had several knock-down, drag-outs with Sydney, and proved to be her match. But while some things may have changed, Anna's chief opponent hasn't.

"Who else would I be fighting with?" Torres says. "There's only one woman for me. It's Miss Jen. But she's gotten better. I have to say, when we were going over our first fight sequence, I was like, 'OK, she's gotten better. Four years ago, she was a very green agent, now she's got all these moves. Whoah, whoah, wait a minute ...'

"It was a lot more fun when I wiped the floor with her."

Since Whedon moved Torres from "Firefly" to "Angel," one wonders whether "Alias" creator J.J. Abrams might shift her to his other show, the plane-crash drama "Lost," which airs right before "Alias" on ABC.

"I saw J.J. Abrams at the Golden Globes," Torres says, "and he had seen my 'Alias' episodes. They had just been put together and edited, and he was really happy with them. He said, 'Would you come back?', and I said, 'Of course, I would come back, just call. And if you need me to run out of the jungle at some point, I'd be happy to do that, too.'

"So who knows, I'm just an actress looking for work. What can I tell you?"



News for 12/07/2003


Angel Co-Star Torres Counts to 24


LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - After spending last season bouncing around the Joss Whedon universe between "Firefly" and "Angel," actress Gina Torres will take a recurring role on the FOX drama "24."

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Torres will play the wife of a major donor to President Palmer's (Dennis Haysbert) political campaign. With Penny Johnson Jerald's Sherry Palmer also set to return, perhaps sparks will fly.

Developing a reputation for small, but colorful parts, Torres' other credits include a recurring role on syndicated "Hercules" (and appearances on "Xena: Warrior Princess"), the starring gig on "Cleopatra 2525," a stint as the nefarious Anna Espinosa on "Alias" and visits to the likes of "NYPD Blue" and "The Agency."

After the cancellation of "Firefly" last season, Whedon wrote Torres (who played Zoe on the sci-fi Western) the part of unstable, god-like Jasmine on "Angel." On the big screen, Torres has been seen this year in the second and third films in the "Matrix" series.

In other FOX casting news, Sherilyn Fenn will return to "Boston Public" for at least four more episodes, playing the former stripper dating Anthony Heald's vice principal character.

Meanwhile, "The Mummy" co-star Patricia Velazquez will drop by freshman comedy "Arrested Development" as a Latin soap star involved with star Jason Bateman. Velazquez has also signed for 13 episodes on Gregory Nava's PBS drama "American Family."



News for 3/25/2003


Check out Gina and Laurence's wedding pics from the February 2003 issue of InStyle Magazine. Click on the pics to read the article and see the enlarged pictures.