Georgina Amorós 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 will be in the 2020 film Rifkin's Festival, marking her first
fully English-speaking role.Amorós was born in Barcelona, in
Catalonia. She speaks fluent Catalan, Spanish, and French, as well as
English, and says that she "could not live" without the sea and the
coast. 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; campaign videos have featured her various
co-stars. In 2019, she received death threats on Twitter because of
her character on Elite, and deleted her account.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. Since
2017 she has worked on several Netflix 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 Najwa Nimri's character.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". The media compares
Cayetana with Amorós herself, noting that the actress shares
unflattering photos on Instagram and uses her popularity to promote
causes. 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. In this film,
she acts in English.
series including Elite, Welcome to the Family and Locked Up. She is
also known for promoting causes through social media and at events.
She will be in the 2020 film Rifkin's Festival, marking her first
fully English-speaking role.Amorós was born in Barcelona, in
Catalonia. She speaks fluent Catalan, Spanish, and French, as well as
English, and says that she "could not live" without the sea and the
coast. 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; campaign videos have featured her various
co-stars. In 2019, she received death threats on Twitter because of
her character on Elite, and deleted her account.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. Since
2017 she has worked on several Netflix 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 Najwa Nimri's character.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". The media compares
Cayetana with Amorós herself, noting that the actress shares
unflattering photos on Instagram and uses her popularity to promote
causes. 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. In this film,
she acts in English.
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