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).
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
She’s so good: Selena Gomez to play ‘70s rock icon Linda Ronstadt in biopic
nypost.comDisney Channel darling turned pop diva is set to play Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Linda Ronstadt— best known for her 1975 No.
1 hit “You’re No Good” — in an upcoming biopic.And the 77-year-old icon — who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2013— has signed off on the casting herself. “The long-rumored Linda Ronstadt biopic is now up-and-running.
Selena Gomez is attached to play Linda,” according to an announcement on the website of Great Eastern Music, a publisher founded by Ronstadt’s manager, John Boylan“The two recently spent a few hours at Linda’s home discussing the project and getting to know each other,” he added.The film will be produced by James Keach, who also produced the 2019 Ronstadt documentary “The Sound of My Voice” and the acclaimed 2005 Johnny Cash biopic “Walk the Line.”No doubt — there is a clear resemblance between the two singers, who are both of Mexican descent.“I always used to get told that I look like her,” Gomez, 31, said during a 2015 appearance on “On Air with Ryan Seacrest. “And I started listening to her music because of that.”After announcing her retirement in 2011, Ronstadt — an 11-time Grammy winner whose versatility extended from rock and country to jazz and Latin music — was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 and was feted by Kennedy Center Honors in 2019 for her legendary career.Meanwhile, Gomez found herself at the center of a lip-reading mystery with BFF Taylor Swift at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday.
Following speculation that Gomez was dishing about Kylie Jenner refusing to allow her to take a photo with her boyfriend Timothée Chalamet, the “Only Murderers in the Building” actress subsequently announced that she would be taking a break from social media on.
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