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31 - Antonia is 1 of the stars of Ginny & Georgia.
- Antonia hails from Georgia.
- Antonia is starring successful different Netflix project.
Ginny & Georgia play 2 made its long-awaited instrumentality connected January 5, 2023, aft astir 2 years of waiting. Antonia Gentry stars arsenic Ginny successful the deed Netflix series, which broke a Netflix grounds by staying #1 connected the streaming service’s apical 10 rankings for much than 27 days. This mother-daughter coming-of-age communicative has millions hooked, and that’s acknowledgment to Antonia and her co-star Brianne Howey.
Antonia was a Hollywood newcomer earlier Ginny & Georgia, and present she’s 1 of Hollywood’s astir talented rising stars. HollywoodLife has rounded up 5 cardinal things you request to cognize astir the 25-year-old.
Antonia Gentry arsenic Ginny Miller. (Netflix)1. Antonia is 1 of the leads of Ginny & Georgia.
Antonia is 1 of the 2 titular roles successful Ginny & Georgia. She plays Ginny Miller, the teen girl of Georgia Miller. Antonia had a breakout show successful Ginny & Georgia play 1 alongside Brianne. The bid follows Ginny and Georgia who determination to a tiny New England municipality to effort and found a mean beingness for themselves with Georgia’s lad Austin. But it hasn’t been casual for the family. In play 2, Ginny struggled with her anxiousness and began seeing a therapist arsenic she tried to recognize her mother’s actions. The bid besides stars Scott Porter, Felix Mallard, Jennifer Robertson, Sara Waisglass, Raymond Ablack, and more.
2. She went to assemblage successful Georgia.
Antonia went to Emory University successful Atlanta for play successful 2015 aft attending the John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School. While astatine Emory, Antonia was a portion of the school’s Rathskellar Comedy Improv troupe. Back successful 2019, the histrion gave her chap troupe members a shoutout connected Instagram.
3. She got her commencement successful different Netflix project.
Her archetypal large relation was successful the 2018 Netflix film Candy Jar. She besides appeared successful an occurrence of Raising Dion play 1, which aired successful 2019. She’s keeping her roles successful the Netflix household with Ginny & Georgia! In summation to Ginny & Georgia, Antonia is starring successful an upcoming Netflix movie Time Cut, which besides features Outer Banks prima Madison Bailey.
4. She got the relation of Ginny portion inactive successful college.
Antonia was inactive successful her last twelvemonth astatine Emory University erstwhile she learned she was going to play Ginny successful the Netflix series. She explained however she juggled it each successful an interview. “My professors were knowing and encouraging for the astir part, but it was beauteous hard bouncing backmost and distant betwixt being a full-time assemblage student, moving part-time, and besides trying to prosecute this career,” she told W.
Antonia Gentry astatine a Chanel event. (Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock)5. Antonia loves that Ginny is simply a ‘flawed’ character.
Following the merchandise of play 1, Taylor Swift publically called retired Ginny & Georgia for what she deemed a “lazy, profoundly sexist joke.” Antonia’s quality says successful the archetypal season, “What bash you care? You spell done men faster than Taylor Swift.” Antonia didn’t straight respond to Taylor’s tweet, but she did write a agelong message astir the interaction the amusement has had connected her life.
“I ne'er would person imagined thing similar this arsenic a young miss — that is, having a dependable susceptible of impact,” she wrote connected Instagram. “It is truthful meaningful to spot hundreds of messages from fans successful my inbox who consciousness seen, heard and understood due to the fact that of the amusement and its characters. It has besides been amusive to perceive from those who were conscionable blessed to beryllium on for the entertaining ride. As idiosyncratic who grew up feeling voiceless and unimportant, and who did not spot herself reflected on-screen, Ginny Miller was yet a reprieve. Finally, a quality who was conscionable arsenic confused and imperfect arsenic I was gets a accidental to exist.”
When asked astir Taylor’s disapproval much than a twelvemonth later, Antonia told Elite Daily, “That’s what happens with shows that conscionable marque radical truthful affectional and attached,” she says. “They disturbance up existent conversations and marque radical consciousness each kinds of emotions, and I deliberation it speaks to the imperfections of the characters for radical to wage attraction to and to assistance look wrong of themselves and past spot possibly immoderate of those aforesaid traits mightiness beryllium determination that they request to enactment on.”
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