Georgina Borri
Rosa Maria Georgina de Lourdes Borri Diaz, better known as Georgina Borri is a Puerto Rican television, theater and film actress and playwright. She is best known for her participation in such television shows as "El Show de Chucho Avellanet" and "Los Ramos Gamma".
Biography
Born to mother Georgina Diaz in the southern Puerto Rico city of Salinas, which is near Ponce, Borri and her family moved north to the north-central city of Caguas when she was a young child.. In Caguas, Borri wanted to become a beauty queen but she changed her goals when she first saw Iris Chacon perform; Chacon inspired Borri to dream of becoming a vedette dancer instead. Borri took piano lessons and dance classes and was part of the drama club at the high school. Sne graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, in Río Piedras, where she studied Humanities with a concentration in Drama.Borri began taking piano musical lessons and became a member of an acting club at high school. Borri then graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus, with a degree in humanities and drama. Myrna Casas and Dean Zayas were among her teachers at the university. At the UPR, she studied Garcia Lorca, Chekhov, Lope de Vega and Brecht, among others.
Career
In 1975, at age 20 or 21, Borri debuted on Puerto Rican television, when canal 6, the Puerto Rican government's public channel, hired her to act on a telenovela adaptation of the famous novel, "Marianela". Further celebrity arrived when WKAQ-TV, canal 2, hired her to participate on the comedy sketches of well-known Puerto Rican singer Chucho Avellanet's show, "El Show de Chucho", where she worked from 1980 to 1990. The fact she worked at canal 2 notwithstanding, she also worked at canal 2's main rival, canal 4 and canal 7, on the television show "Los Rayos Gamma", acting alongside Jacobo Morales, Sunshine Logrono, Silverio Perez and Horacio Olivo. She also hosted a television show named "Al Día" on canal 7, from 1988 to 1990.At the same time, Borri was active on the theatrical community, on plays such as "Un Tranvia Llamado Deseo", Pablo Cabrera's "La Historia de Pedro Navaja", Albee's "Quien le Teme a Virginia Woolf?", "Se Casa mi Amante" and others.
Continuing her television acting career, Borri was involved in canal 4's "Cafetería la 15" from 1990 to 1991. During 1993, she joined canal 2's major comedy hit, "Con [Lo Que Cuenta Este País]", where she played Margot.
Borri also acted in the 2007 Puerto Rican film, "Maldeamores", alongside Luis Guzman and Miguel Ángel Álvarez.
In 2012, the movie "Broche de Oro" was released. The film, loosely translated as "Grand Closing", made history becoming the longest running Puerto Rican film of all times; it ran for two months in Puerto Rican cinemas.
In 2017, Borri acted alongside Dominican-Puerto Rican Charytin and Noelia Cresspo in a prequel film titled, "Broche de Oro:Comienzos"..
In 2021, Borri participated in an online theatrical presentation named "Piano Bar". She also acted in "El Cuartito" during that year. "El Cuartito" is a movie about what takes place at an immigtration room at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, and in it, she shares credits with Puerto Rican-Argentine actress Claribel Medina.
In 2024, Borri was one of several guests at a Telemundo Puerto Rico special, which was hosted by Raymond Arrieta, to commemorate the 70 years of television in Puerto Rico.
Producing
She also launched a career as an events and musical producer, with the promotion of "Nardós y Azucenas: Juegos Infantiles Tradicionales" and the album "Canciones Para Juguar", both geared towards children.She also produced a major hit show for canal 11, the midday show "Ellas al Mediodia", which was co-hosted by, among others, Camille Carrion, Angela Meyer, Margot Deben and Carmen Belen Richardson.
Borri has also worked as a playwright.