"Whatever It Takes" is an upcoming web series that shows you can try to forget where you came from, but you can never forget who you are.

 

Funny, tragic, warm and heartfelt, the series follows the life and loves of Rosaly Rojo, an actress who returns to inner city Paterson, NJ after struggling to make it in Hollywood. But her home life is no picnic either after she begins a complicated romantic relationship that threatens her troubled family.

 

Whatever It Takes is a Joyas Media production, starring Johanna Tolentino, Elaine Del Valle, Phil John, Solanyi Rodriguez, Gabe Vargas, Jay Jorge Alvarez, Marcos Sotomayor, Brian Wilson (The Wire), Gina Tuttle, Eddie Rosario, Jocelyn Martinez, and A.B. Lugo.

 

                                                                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Johanna Tolentino got her first big break at the age of 16 on the feature film "Lean On Me" with Morgan Freeman.  After being bitten by the acting bug, she booked roles on off-off Broadway shows in New York. She trained at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in audition technique, voice and acting before  booking roles in regional theaters, industrial films and regional commercials in Atlanta and Philadelphia.  She has also booked roles on various web series, including the web series "Which Way".  

 

Recently, she booked a co-starring role in Orange Is The New Black (Season 4) appeared as  Rosa in The Buddy Holly Story at the Walnut Street Theatre, a nurse on the NBC show Do No Harm, and was cast in the short films, "Taking East New York" and "El Pasaje, as well as features "Keep in Touch" and Sylvester Stallone's upcoming Rocky sequel, "Creed".

 

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