Georgina Tolentino

Biography

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.