Source: Year Of The New Mexico Girl
Article By: N/A
Date: May 2005

“GENEVIEVE CORTESE” from the ABC FAMILY DRAMA Wildfire made a guest appearance…

GENEVIEVE CORTESE plays…

Kris Furillo – The tough outsider, Kris was recently released from a detention center and must now assimilate back into society. Luckily, because of her love for and skill with horses, she has been given the chance to work on the Ritter family ranch, but she finds more than she bargained for with a group of peers who don’t have her best interests at heart.

Genevieve holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in drama and a bachelor of arts in English from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She has performed in regional productions of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Crimes of the Heart” and “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” Genevieve makes her television debut as Kris Furillo.

Birthday – January 8

Currently lives in Venice, CA, but grew up in Danville, CA and Sun Valley, ID.

Has a sister, two brothers, French Bulldog named Pete.

My favorite food would be Mexican.

I love the movie North Shore and Endless Summer because they make me happy. But I love To Kill a Mockingbird and Amelie and was recently turned on to The Great Escape. Napolean Dynamite, Breakfast Club.

I love Alias and Reno 911.

I like more punk music like Bad Religion and I like this new band called Rise Against and my friend’s band God or Julie. But I love Jack Johnson, Pink Floyd, Ben Harper, Tori Amos, the Libertines. I have an appreciation for everything though.

I do a lot of reading, running and a bit of surfing. I also snowboard.

Likes
Traveling, friends, family.

Dislikes
Driving, running errands, cleaning, when people talk on the cell phone in public.