Actress Gina Torres

 Gina Torres is a reliable presence in American film and television.

She is best known for her role as Cas in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Resolutions, films from 2003 in an ongoing series of films about a dystopian future in which everyone lives in virtual reality.  But she's also done lighter films more grounded in reality, such as the Chris Rock movie I Think I Love My Wife, a 2007 remake of Eric Rohmer's Chloe In the Afternoon, about a man (Rock) whose relationship with his wife (Ms. Torres) has gone stale.

On television, she's played a lot of roles in sci-fi/fantasy series, including "Cleopatra 2525," about women who fight flying robots controlling Earth in the year . . . no, I'm not going to say it. :-D  

But Ms. Torres continues to do more realistic TV series and films, having played Jessica Pearson in the legal series "Suits" (the show that made Meghan Markle famous) and also having done the independent movie South of Pico (from 2007) abut ordinary people's reactions to an accident they've just witnessed.

Fun fact 1: Ms. Torres was married to actor Laurence Fishburne for sixteen years beginning in 2002.

Fun fact 2: Ms. Torres is also a trained mezzo-soprano singer.