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 To Star As Gay Peruvian Mountaineer Silvia Vásquez-Lavado In Upcoming Film ‘In The Shadow Of The Mountain’
etcanada.comSelena Gomez is taking on an exciting new role. The singer is set to portray Silvia Vásquez-Lavado in “In the Shadow of the Mountain”, a film based on an upcoming memoir of the same name.
Vásquez-Lavado is a Peruvian-American mountain climber “who became the first Peruvian woman to summit Mt. Everest and the first openly gay woman to complete the Seven Summits, a challenge to climb the highest mountain on each continent,” the Hollywood Reporter reports.
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