Selena Marie Gomez is an American singer, actress, and producer. She rose to prominence for her role as Alex Russo in the Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place. Gomez has also starred in the films Another Cinderella Story, Princess Protection Program, Ramona and Beezus, Monte Carlo, Spring Breakers, The Fundamentals of Caring, The Dead Don’t Die, and A Rainy Day in New York. In 2017, Billboard reported that Gomez has sold over seven million albums and 22 million singles worldwide.
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Selena Marie Gomez is an American singer, actress, and producer. She rose to prominence for her role as Alex Russo in the Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place. Gomez has also starred in the films Another Cinderella Story, Princess Protection Program, Ramona and Beezus, Monte Carlo, Spring Breakers, The Fundamentals of Caring, The Dead Don’t Die, and A Rainy Day in New York. In 2017, Billboard reported that Gomez has sold over seven million albums and 22 million singles worldwide. She has a large following on social media, and was at one point the most-followed individual on Instagram. Gomez’s other ventures include a makeup line, a clothing line, and a handbag line. She was honored as the Billboard Woman of the Year in 2017. She also executive produced the Netflix television series 13 Reasons Why and Living Undocumented. Gomez was named after Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla, who died in 1995. Her father is of Mexican descent while her mother, who was adopted, has some Italian ancestry. She is a proud third-generation American-Mexican and has two younger half-sisters: Gracie Elliot Teefey, through Amanda and her second husband Brian Teefy, and Victoria \”Tori\” Gomez, through Ricardo and his second wife Sara. She earned her high-school diploma through homeschooling in May 2010. Gomez and Demi Lovato were selected to appear on the series The Friends in 2002, with Gomez portraying the character of Gianna.
She began auditioning for various roles during an audition for Barney & Friends and met Lovato during a trip to New York City to see her perform in a play. The pair went on to appear in various roles in various other films and TV shows, including Spring Breaker and The Deaddon’t Die. Gomez also voices Mavis in the Hotel Transylvania film franchise and has appeared in a number of other television shows and movies. Her parents divorced when she was five years old, and she remained with her mother. At age 17, she was appointed a UNICEF ambassador. Gomez stated that she was frustrated that her parents weren’t together, and never saw the light at the end of the tunnel where my mom was working hard to provide a better life for me. She later added that, ‘I’m terrified of what I would have become if I’d stayed. I had to give up everything for me at 16. Having three grandparents took care of me had to have been a big responsibility’ Gomez has a close relationship with her grandparents, and often visited them while she was growing up. Her grandparents often took care, and the pair went to the park and have barbecues on Sundays after church. Gomez states that she is ‘proud’ of her Hispanic heritage and that her family does have Quinceañeras, and we go to the communion church. Her mother was adopted by her father, Ricardo Joel Gomez and Texas-born former stage actress Amanda Dawn Mandy Cornett.
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