Georgina Amorós

Georgina Amorós Sagrera (born April 30, 1998) 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 featured in the 2020 film Rifkin's Festival, marking it as her first fully English-speaking role.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Amorós and the second or maternal family name is Sagrera.
Georgina Amorós
Georgina Amorós at the Gaudí Awards in 2020.
Born
Georgina Amorós Sagrera

(1998-04-30) April 30, 1998
Barcelona, Spain
Years active2014–present

Early life

Georgina Amorós Sagrera was born on April 30, 1998 in Barcelona, in Catalonia. She speaks fluent Catalan, Spanish, French and English.[1]

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.[4] Her character's season 2 story was teased in a video by Catalan network TV3 calling it an "amorous plot".[5] 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.[6] She also starred in prison drama Locked Up in its final season, playing Fatima Amir, the daughter of Najwa Nimri's character.[7][8]

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".[9] The media compares Cayetana with Amorós herself, noting that the actress shares unflattering photos on Instagram and uses her popularity to promote causes.[9] 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.[8]

Personal life

Since 2019, Amorós is in a relationship with the executive producer of Elite, Diego Betancor. In 2019, she received death threats on Twitter because of her character on Elite, and deleted her account.[2]

Activism

She is a feminist and campaigns against LGBT+ discrimination, and created the campaign 'Por Un Solo Voto', encouraging young people in Spain to use their vote.

Filmography

Television
Year Title Character Channel Notes
2014 Velvet Young Ana Ribera López Antena 3 4 episodes
2015 Bajo sospecha Emilia "Emi" Vega Castro Antena 3 8 episodes
Águila Roja La 1 3 episodes
2016 Seis Hermanas Lorenza La 1 7 episodes
2017–2018 Welcome to the Family Alexandra "Àlex" Argenté TV3 26 episodes
Locked Up Fátima Amin FOX 5 episodes
2019–present Elite Cayetana Grajera Pando Netflix 23 episodes
2021 Élite: historias breves Cayetana Grajera Pando Netflix 3 episodes

Film
Year Movie Character Director
2016 Tini: The Movie Eloísa Martínez Juan Pablo Buscarini
2017 It's for Your Own Good Marta Carlos Therón
2020 Rifkin's Festival Delores Woody Allen
2022 Código Emperador[10]

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. Iglesias, Carolina, #UnaCañaCon Georgina Amorós (in Spanish), retrieved 2019-12-29
  5. TV3, La trama amorosa de l'Àlex (in Catalan), retrieved 2020-01-05
  6. Iglesias, Carolina, #UnaCañaCon Georgina Amorós (in Spanish), event occurs at 4:55 - 5:10, retrieved 2019-12-29
  7. "Georgina Amorós". Vis a Vis en FOX – Cuarta temporada (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  8. "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.
  9. "The New Girl In 'Elite' Has Already Played The Love Interest Of One Of Her Costars". Bustle. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  10. "Tráiler Así es 'Código emperador': Luis Tosar en un thriller de espionaje y corrupción política". rtve. 17 November 2021.
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