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: My ‘Only Murders’ character is an extension of Disney show
nypost.comAwardist Podcast.“I feel like Mabel is an older version of Alex in a way,” she quipped. “I adored being on that show so much.
I felt like I did learn a lot. We actually had great writers — we had two writers that were on ‘Friends’ — and we had an incredible director that we used for most of our seasons,” Gomez said.“Wizards” lasted for 106 episodes and aired from 2007 until 2012.
The series followed Alex, a teen wizard as she navigates high school life with her friends and family while getting into a medley of mayhem along the way.“We got really lucky.
I still look back at that and laugh at certain things just because I thought it was so fun, and we tried,” Gomez noted.The “Spring Breakers” star also discussed Mabel’s bitingly funny sarcastic demeanor as well as how she was able to add some improvisation to her acting alongside costars Steve Martin and Martin Short. “We would have these freedom takes where they would throw something at me,” Gomez said.
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