Antonia Gentry

Antonia Bonea Gentry (born September 25, 1993) is an American actress.

She is best known for her role as Virginia "Ginny" Miller in the Netflix series Ginny & Georgia (2021–present).

Antonia Gentry was born in Atlanta, Georgia.

She is biracial.

Her mother is black and from Jamaica, and her father is white.

Since she was five years old, she wanted to be an actress.

Her first involvement in theater was acting in plays that her mother wrote at their community theater.

She studied drama at the John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School in Augusta, Georgia.

She also attended Emory University for drama.

At Emory, she was a member of the university's comedy-improv troupe, Rathskellar Comedy Improv Group.

Gentry has acted in a variety of smaller roles, including two shorts in 2015.

In 2018, she played Jasmine in the romantic comedy feature film Candy Jar and acted in one episode of superhero television series, Raising Dion.

She graduated from Emory in the same week that she got an audition for Ginny & Georgia. She won the role and, in 2021, the series was released on Netflix.

Gentry lives in New York City.

Before her graduation in 2019, she balanced acting roles with being a full-time college student in addition to having a part-time job.