Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television producer. After appearing on the children's series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), she received wider recognition for her portrayal of Alex Russo on the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place, which aired from 2007 until 2012.
Gomez also starred in the films Another Cinderella Story (2008), Princess Protection Program (2009), Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (2009), Ramona and Beezus (2010), and Monte Carlo (2011). Thereafter, she focused on more mature roles in Spring Breakers (2012), Getaway (2013), The Fundamentals of Caring (2016), and The Dead Don't Die (2019). She voices the character of Mavis in the Hotel Transylvania film franchise, and serves as an executive producer of the Netflix television drama series 13 Reasons Why (2017–present) and the Netflix documentary series Living Undocumented (2019).
Selena Gomez ‘Forever Grateful’ For Friend Donor Francia Raisa On World Kidney Day
hollywoodlife.comSelena Gomez is “forever grateful” to longtime friend Francia Raisa, who donated a kidney to the Revelación singer in the summer of 2017 — following complications due to Selena’s auto immune disease lupus.
On March 11, Francia, 32, who’s remained fairly private about the kidney operation, shared an emotional message to Twitter on World Kidney Day, to which Selena, 28, replied, “Thank you for blessing me.
I am forever grateful to you.” “If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I’ve kept my kidney donation process pretty private,” Francia wrote in a lengthy Twitter thread, alongside a photo of herself in the hospital after the 2017 surgery.
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