Georgina Amorós Sagrera (30 April 1998) is a Spanish actress known for her television work on series including ''

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'', '' Welcome to the Family'' and '' Locked Up''. She is also known for promoting various social justice causes through social media and at events. She featured in the 2020 film ''

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'', marking it as her first fully English-speaking role.

Early life

Georgina Amorós Sagrera was born on 30 April, 1998, in

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. She speaks fluent

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, Spanish, French and English.

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. At the age of 17, she moved to

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, to study acting. Since 2017 she has worked on several

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series, including '' Welcome to the Family'', not a Netflix original, where she had her first leading role as Àlex. Her character's season 2 story was teased in a video by Catalan network TV3 calling it an "amorous plot". 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. She also starred in prison drama ''Locked Up'' in its final season, playing Fatima Amir, the daughter of

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's character. In 2019, she joined the cast of the Netflix original series ''

'', playing Cayetana, a scholarship student and daughter of the school cleaner. The character, who is a

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, explores how people aren't always who they appear to be online. Amorós says that Cayetana is "apparently happy but has a lot of levels and isn't at all what she seems". The media compares Cayetana with Amorós herself, noting that the actress shares unflattering photos on

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and uses her popularity to promote causes. That same year, she was cast as Delores in the 2020

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film ''

'', her first English-speaking role. After having seen Allen's 2008 film ''

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,'' Amorós was excited to know that he had been in her hometown in Barcelona.

Personal life

In 2019, she received death threats on

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because of her character on ''

'' and deleted her account. Since late 2019, Amorós has been in a relationship with Diego Betancor, an executive producer of ''

''.

Activism

Amorós is a

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and campaigns against Homophobia, LGBT+ discrimination. In 2019, she contributed to the campaign 'Por Un Solo Voto', encouraging young people in Spain to use their vote.

Filmography

Television

Film

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Amoros, Georgina 1998 births Actresses from Barcelona Living people 21st-century Spanish actresses Web series actresses Television actresses from Catalonia Film actresses from Catalonia Spanish feminists Spanish women activists Spanish LGBT rights activists Activists from Catalonia Women civil rights activists