- Born
- Birth nameGeorgina Evelyn Tolentino
- Georgina Tolentino is an American actress and filmmaker of Filipino European descent. She will be starring as Victoria Manalo Draves in a feature-film biopic about the first woman to win two gold medals in Olympic diving at the 1948 London Games. Victoria Manalo Draves was half-Filipino and half-English American during racial segregation when interracial marriage was illegal in the United States. Tolentino has been training for two years in diving, gymnastics, and movement to prepare for the role.
She studies with Howard Fine at the Howard Fine Studio.
- IMDb mini biography by: GT
- Graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara.
- Was going to further continue her studies in Interior Architectural Design but decided to graduated a year early from college to pursue acting.
- Filipino, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, and Native American ancestry.
- Named after her father, George her mother's suffix, Ledivina and "Marie" after Marie Osmond.
- You can't wait for permission to act, you just do, then the right team that believes in your vision will unravel itself. Have faith and know your value.
- You can't win awards for projects that don't exist, so I decided to create the roles and stories that I want to act in. You have to be willing to invent to create and be unapologetic about the roles you want to be in. It's a different path, but its my path.
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