Tori Bates is an accomplished, trained professional actress, singer, and dancer currently residing in Central Florida. Tori began acting at age 8, performing in community theatre at Player’s Theatre in Sarasota, Florida.
Her professional career debut starred alongside R&B singer Deborah Cox in the Broadway Bound play Josephine. In the summer of 2016, at 11, Tori was cast as the first history-making bi-racial Annie in the US Broadway National Tour. Upon returning to Florida, Tori decided to focus on the Film, TV, Commercial, and Print industries. Credits include ABC TV Pilot Salvage with Jim Belushi, Universal Studios Super Bowl LII commercial starring alongside football legend Peyton Manning, Food Network, Arabella Insurance, Publix, and multiple Disney and Universal Theme Park commercials and several print ads.
In 2020, Tori starred in the Amazon feature film The Kid Who Only Hit Homers, produced by former Nickelodeon president Cyma Zarghami. Tori received Best Leading Actress in 2020 at the Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival for the award-winning short film Pine Mountain Overnight.
Currently, Tori is part of the opening entertainment team for Epic Universe at Universal Studios Orlando Resort.
In her free time, Tori loves reading thrillers and mystery novels, going to Disney and Universal, eating Italian food, listening to 80s music, geeking out about Marvel movies, and snuggling with her cat, Potter. She lives by the phrase “Make Yourself Proud” and believes it is the key to a happy and fulfilled life.