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Included amongst Torres\u2019s most notable television credits are her performances as the Russo-Cuban assassin Anna Espinosa on \u201cAlias,\u201d the shotgun-toting mercenary Zoe Washburn on Joss Whedon\u2019s \u201cFirefly\u201d (whom she also played in his feature film SERENITY) and the soul-eating Jasmine on Whedon\u2019s \u201cAngel.\u201d Additional television credits include \u201cHuge,\u201d \u201cThe Shield,\u201d \u201c24,\u201d \u201cPushing Daisies,\u201d \u201cFlash Forward,\u201d \u201cGossip Girl,\u201d \u201cBoondocks,\u201d and \u201cThe Vampire Diaries.\u201d She has also voiced the roles of Vixen in \u201cThe Justice League\u201d series and Superwoman in \u201cJustice League: Crisis on Two Earths\u201d opposite James Woods. She began her onscreen career with roles on \u201cLaw & Order,\u201d \u201cOne Life to Live,\u201d \u201cAny Day Now\u201d and \u201cLa Femme Nikita\u201d but it was her collaboration with producers Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert on four different shows \u2013 \u201cMANTIS,\u201d \u201cHercules: The Legendary Journeys,\u201d \u201cXena: Warrior Princess\u201d and \u201cCleopatra 2525\u201d (the latter of which earned her an ALMA Award) – that brought her to the masses and promptly shifted her career.<\/p>\n

Torres\u2019s 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\u2019Nique, FIVE FINGERS opposite Laurence Fishburne and DON\u2019T LET ME DROWN (critic\u2019s choice at the Sundance Film Festival 2009).<\/p>\n

The youngest of three children, Torres was born in Manhattan and raised in The Bronx with her close-knit Cuban family. She graduated from Fiorello LaGuardia School of Arts where, before entering the world of acting, she studied opera and jazz as a vocal major. Within a year of graduating, she was cast as Deena Jones in Dreamgirls, her first professional acting job. It wasn\u2019t long before she started appearing on Broadway being directed by such legends as Tommy Tune and Pete Masterson in Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public and Jerry Zaks in Face Value. Her additional theater credits include Off- and Off-Off Broadway plays and musicals that ranged from classic Greek tragedy in Antigone and Amphytrion; to Shakespeare\u2019s Pericles of Tyre and Julius Caesar; to contemporary classics such as Lorca\u2019s Blood Wedding; to the world premieres of Sheila\u2019s Day and Heliotrope Bouquet.<\/p>\n

Torres and her husband, Laurence Fishburne, reside in Los Angeles with their daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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