Gina Torres Filmography

South of Pico

Actors: Kip Pardue, Gina Torres, Henry Simmons

Synopsis: The lives of four random strangers converge on the streets of a sprawling Los Angeles thoroughfare in a tale of interconnecting lives starring Kip Pardue, Gina Torres, and Henry Simmons. In Los Angeles, Pico Boulevard is the dividing line that separates the rich from the poor. Upon witnessing a Read More

Five Fingers

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Ryan Phillippe, Gina Torres, Touriya Haoud, Saïd Taghmaoui

Synopsis: Writer-director Lawrence Malkin's thriller Five Fingers casts Ryan Philippe as Martijn, a gifted Dutch jazz pianist who flies to Morocco to set up a food assistance program. On Middle Eastern soil, however, he and his security person, Gavin (portrayed by Colm Meaney) are promptly kidnapped by Read More

Standoff [TV Series]

Actors: Ron Livingston, Rosemarie DeWitt, Gina Torres, Raquel Alessi, Michael Cudlitz

Synopsis: Fox's Standoff was one of several series from the 2006-2007 TV season that were built around hostage situations. The protagonists were a pair of FBI agents working out of the "Crisis Negotiation Unit," Emily Lehman (Rosemarie DeWitt) and Matt Flannery (Ron Livingston). Experts at defusing tense Read More

Serenity

Actors: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Summer Glau, Sean Maher

Synopsis: A band of renegades on the run in outer space get in more hot water than they anticipated in this sci-fi action-adventure adapted from the television series Firefly. In the 26th century, the galaxy has been colonized by a military force known as the Alliance, but its leadership has not gone Read More

Jam

Synopsis: A car wreck causes the lives of 15 strangers to unexpectedly collide in this independent comedy drama. It's Father's Day, and Ted (William Forsythe) is out on the road with his 19-year-old son Josh (Dan Byrd). When Josh slams on the brakes to avoid hitting a dog along a two-lane highway in the Read More

Fair Game

Actors: Michael Whaley, Gina Torres, Kellita Smith, Christopher B. Duncan

Synopsis: When two co-workers who can't see eye to eye in the office are unexpectedly forced to share a living space, their initial distain soon transforms into attraction in this lighthearted look at the romantic games people play from filmmaker Michael Whaley. Michael (Whaley) and Stacey (Torres) can Read More

Hair Show

Actors: Mo'nique, Kellita Smith, Gina Torres, David Ramsey, Taraji P. Henson

Synopsis: Blood may be thicker than water, but it doesn't hold a candle to hairspray, as we learn in this urban comedy. Angela (Kellita Smith) is a successful hairdresser who operates her own salon based in Los Angeles. One day, Angela gets an unexpected visit from her sister Peaches (Mo'Nique), who runs a Read More

Justice League Unlimited: Wake the Dead

Actors: Scott Rummel, Oded Fehr, Gina Torres, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: A trio of nerdish students accidentally invoke a supernatural spell -- and presto! Familiar Justice League nemesis Solomon Grundy is revived from his "sleep of death." Going on a rampage, Grundy cannot be stopped by the Leaguers. Their only hopes lie in the only person who'd ever befriended the Read More

The Matrix Revolutions

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith

Synopsis: Shot back-to-back with The Matrix Reloaded, the third and final installment of Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski's sci-fi action saga picks up where the second film left off. Neo (Keanu Reeves) remains unconscious in the real world, caught in a mysterious subway station that lies between the Read More

The Matrix Reloaded

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith

Synopsis: After creating an international sensation with the visually dazzling and intellectually challenging sci-fi blockbuster The Matrix, the Wachowski brothers returned with the first of two projected sequels that pick up where the first film left off. Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) Read More

Angel: The Magic Bullet

Synopsis: As a new age of fellowship and love dawns on Los Angeles, Fred (Amy Acker) flees from her pursuers, Gunn (J. August Richards) and Wesley (Alexis Denisof). Hunted by her former suitors, who are now devoted acolytes of sinister guru Jasmine (Gina Torres), she finds safety in a fleabag motel -- until Read More

Angel: Sacrifice

Synopsis: After failing to inoculate Connor (Vincent Kartheiser) against the profane influence of Jasmine (Gina Torres), Angel (David Boreanaz) beats the boy senseless and stages a daring escape from the hotel. Fred (Amy Acker) feels just sick about leaving Connor and the comatose Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter Read More

Angel: Peace Out

Synopsis: As Jasmine (Gina Torres) prepares to secure her dominion over the entire planet via a worldwide satellite broadcast, Angel (David Boreanaz) makes his way through the last dimension to enjoy her oppressive love. There, amidst a desolate, otherworldly landscape, he encounters Jasmine's High Priest (Robert Towers Read More

Angel: Inside Out

Synopsis: Following their discovery of her recent betrayal (see "Players"), the pregnant Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) escapes from the fang gang with help from Connor (Vincent Kartheiser). The mommy-to-be and her unwitting love slave end up in a warehouse, where Cordy warns Connor that if they don't Read More

Angel: Shiny Happy People

Synopsis: As Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) lies unconscious, Angel (David Boreanaz) and Connor (Vincent Kartheiser) pay homage to her otherworldly spawn (Gina Torres), who promptly disappears. The awestruck pair carry Cordy back to the hotel, where she remains in a coma for the rest of the episode. Wesley (Alexis Denisof Read More

Firefly [TV Series]

Actors: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Jewel Staite, Morena Baccarin

Synopsis: Created by Joss Whedon (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Firefly was an "outer-space Western" set some four to five centuries in the future. Nathan Fillion starred as Captain Mal Reynolds, a disillusioned interplanetary-war veteran and outlaw of the Alliance, the current ruling government. Reynolds Read More

Alias: Parity

Synopsis: Escaping the clutches of an illicit arms dealer, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) takes on her next counterespionage assignment. Her mission transports her to Madrid, where she is to purchase a 500-year-old drawing by the remarkably prophetic Renaissance artist Milo Rambaldi -- a sketch containing a Read More

Alias: Time Will Tell

Synopsis: Back from searching for a missing Rambaldi artifact at Oxford University, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) is forced to take a polygraph test by Sloane (Ron Rifkin), who is determined to expose the mole working for SD-6. A later counterespionage assignment takes Sydney and her reluctant partner, Dixon (Carl Lumbly Read More

Alias: A Broken Heart

Synopsis: Taking time off from tracking the terrorist who plans to blow up an international seminar in São Paulo, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) reluctant agrees to play private eye for her roommate, Francie (Merrin Dungey), who suspects that her boyfriend, Charlie (Evan Dexter Parke), is seeing another woman. Read More

Cleopatra 2525 [TV Series]

Actors: Gina Torres, Victoria Pratt, Jennifer Sky, Patrick Kake

Synopsis: Evil robots, gratuitous explosions, and babes in silver lame bikinis. Set in 2525 after robots called Bailles have forced Earth's human population to retreat underground, a duo of nubile warriors fight their mechanical oppressors. Sarge (Victoria Pratt) and Hel (Gina Torres), who can communicate Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Let There Be Light

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Gina Torres, Tamara Gorski, Jeffrey Thomas

Synopsis: Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and Nebula (Gina Torres) arrive in Corinth searching for the Gem of Creation. The gem has the power to hold the demonic Dahak (Michael Hurst) immobile from sunrise to sunset -- and this may be the only hope for releasing the soul of Hercules' deceased friend, Iolaus (also Michael Hurst Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Redemption

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Gina Torres, Tamara Gorski, Jeffrey Thomas

Synopsis: While the demonic Dahak (Michael Hurst) is temporarily rendered helpless by the Gem of Creation, Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) feverishly tries to exorcise the soul of his departed friend Iolaus (also Michael Hurst). Meanwhile, god of war Ares (Kevin Smith), newly transformed into a powerless mortal, is Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Stranger and Stranger

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Gina Torres, Kevin Smith

Synopsis: This episode thrusts Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) back into the parallel universe where he and his associates exist in bizarre alter-ego form. Unless Hercules can save the Olympian Gods from this topsy-turvy universe, both the parallel and the "real" world will be destroyed. Ultimately, Hercules (Kevin Sorbo Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - War Wounds

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Gina Torres, Kevin Smith, Peter McCauley

Synopsis: Ajax (Peter McCauley), former comrade in arms to Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and Iolaus (Michael Hurst), wants to erect a war memorial for fallen soldiers. This project is staunchly opposed by Hercules' mortal half-brother Iphicles (Kevin Smith), now the King of Corinth. Holding Ajax responsible for Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Yes, Virginia, There is a Hercules

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Kevin Smith, Hudson Leick, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: In present-day Hollywood, the staff of Renaissance Productions, the people responsible for the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, are in a panic. An earthquake has struck Tinseltown, and the series' titular star, Kevin Sorbo, is missing. In order to save their jobs, the series' producers Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Faith

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Gina Torres, Ross Duncan

Synopsis: Season five of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys begins as Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and Iolaus (Michael Hurst) head to Sumeria, there to help King Gilgamesh (Tony Todd), who for reasons not yet known has been utterly ignored by the Olympian Gods. It soon becomes obvious that Gilgamesh is in league Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Darkness Rising

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Gina Torres, Tamara Gorski, Nicko Vella

Synopsis: The demonic Dahak (Michael Hurst) invades Eire and slays all the island's Druids. Managing to escape this carnage, Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and Druidic demigod Morrigan (Tamara Gorski) head to Sumeria, following Hercules' premonition that Princess Nebula (Gina Torres) is in great danger. Upon Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Descent

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Gina Torres, Antonio Te Maioho, Wanjiku Kiarie

Synopsis: Devastated by the death of Iolaus (Michael Hurst), Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) desperately tries to retrieve his friend from the Sumerian underworld. This brings him in contact with "soul collector" Dumuzi (Antonio Te Maioha) and also strengthens his bond with Iolaus' sweetheart, Sumerian princess Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - The King of Assassins

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Gina Torres, Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: Already on the run from a vengeful war lord, self-proclaimed king of thieves Autolycus (Bruce Campbell) is plagued by the suddenly deadly behavior of the lovable Joxer (Ted Raimi). Turns out that it's not Joxer at all, but instead his lookalike brother, Jett (Jeremy Birchall), a professional Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Web of Desire

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Gina Torres, Josephine Davison, Craig Ancell

Synopsis: Gina Torres makes her first series appearance as pirate queen Nebula -- or at least she's a pirate queen in this episode. The story proper find Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and Iolaus (Kevin Hurst) stranded on a strange island with Arachne (Josephine Davison), a seductive half-woman/half-spider. Read More

Dark Angel

Synopsis: An unusually well photographed and acted TV movie, Dark Angel is set in New Orleans, home turf of enigmatic Cajun detective Walter D'Arcangelo (Eric Roberts). The detective's present assignment finds him going undercover in the seamier districts of the Big Easy in order to trap a serial killer who Read More

Bed of Roses

Actors: Christian Slater, Mary Stuart Masterson, Pamela Segall, Josh Brolin, Ally Walker

Synopsis: Two lonely people learn to say it with flowers in this romantic drama. Lisa (Mary Stuart Masterson) is a business executive who has gotten used to being alone but doesn't like it very much; she was abandoned by her birth parents, and then spent most of her childhood being raised by Stanley (S.A. Griffin Read More

NYPD Blue: E.R.

Synopsis: Justine Miceli (Det. Adrianne Lesniak) and Kim Delaney (Det. Diane Russell) graduate from recurring to regular status as NYPD Blue begins its third season. Things get off to a potentially lethal start as James Martinez (Nicholas Turturro) is shot down and left paralyzed -- possibly for life -- by Read More

Law & Order: Purple Heart

Synopsis: A cab driver is murdered, putting the detectives on a long and circuitous trail of clues. Along the way, such elements as a loan shark, a missing plumber, and a forged check determine the proceedings. Ultimately, the investigation focuses on the dead man's widow, Denise Johnson (Lisa Gay Hamilton) Read More

M.A.N.T.I.S.

Actors: Gina Torres

Synopsis: Carl Lumbly stars as an unlikely super-hero in this made-for-television sci-fi movie. Lumbly stars as Dr. Miles Hawkins, a wheel-chair bound scientist who concocts a device that not only liberates him from his chair, but turns him into a crime-fighting super hero. The idea was later developed into Read More

Law & Order: Skin Deep

Synopsis: Law & Order launched its third season (and its new Wednesday-night time slot) with a complex murder mystery involving a "high-fashion" photographer who sidelines as a pimp. Found murdered in his studio, the photographer has left behind a rather sizeable address book, crammed with the names and Read More