Gina Rodriguez
Gina Rodriguez was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States on July 30th, 1984 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 40, Gina Rodriguez biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Gina Alexis Rodriguez (born July 30, 1984) is an American actress, singer, and producer.
Jane Villanueva of The CW's satirical romance drama Jane the Virgin (2014–2019), for which she received a Golden Globe Award in 2015Born and raised in Chicago, Rodriguez began her career in 2004 and appeared in an episode of the police procedural drama series Law & Order.
Filly Brown, an independent musical-drama film, made her breakthrough in 2012.
She has appeared in films including Deepwater Horizon (2016), Ferdinand (2017), Annihilation (2018), Miss Bala (2019), and Someone Great (2019).
Carmen Sandiego's title character also appears on Netflix's animated adventure series Carmen Sandiego (2019-present).
Early years
Gina Alexis Rodriguez was born in Chicago, Illinois, and she was the youngest daughter of Puerto Rican parents, Magali and Gino Rodriguez, a boxing referee. She has two sisters and an older brother. She was raised on Chicago's northwest Side in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood.
Rodriguez appeared at Fantasia Juvenil, a salsa dance company at the age of seven. Rodriguez was raised Catholic and attended high school at St. Ignatius College Prep, where she spent two years behind comedian John Mulaney. She has confirmed that she did not attend "Jake McNamara's party," which is the subject of one of Mulaney's quips. She began dancing at age 17 and became more popular.
She was one of thirteen teenagers to be accepted into Columbia University's Theatrical Collaboration at the age of 16. She studied at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She worked at the Atlantic Theater Company and Experimental Theatre Wing for four years, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2005.
In the production The Last Moments in the Life of Frida Kahlo at the American Stage Theatre, she portrayed Frida Kahlo in the world premiere of Casa Blue in the United Kingdom.
Personal life
Rodriguez admitted in an interview that she has been suffering from Hashimoto's disease, a thyroid disorder, since the age of 19.
"I grew up Catholic," she said in a 2014 interview. I am Jewish, and I attend a Christian synagogue in Hollywood. I am really all over the place."
In 2016, Rodriguez began dating actor, model, and MMA fighter Joe LoCicero, who was on the set of Jane the Virgin. In an interview with Us Weekly on August 7, Rodriguez said that she and LoCicero were engaged. The couple married on May 4, 2019.
Career
Rodriguez made her screen debut appearing in an episode of Law & Order in 2004. She later has appeared on Eleventh Hour, Army Wives and The Mentalist. On October 19, 2011, Rodriguez landed the recurring role, Beverly, in the soap opera series The Bold and the Beautiful. She received a role in the musical film Go for It!, for which she received a 2011 Imagen Awards nomination.
In 2012, Rodriguez played young hip-hop artist Majo Tenorio in the independent musical-drama film Filly Brown, for which she won an Imaged Award. She received good reviews for her performance in film. She also was the recipient of the Best Actor Award at the First Run Film Festival in New York. On June 9, 2013, Gina won the Inaugural Lupe Award. On April 16, 2013, during an interview, she revealed she was offered a role in the Lifetime television series Devious Maids, but turned it down. On October 16, 2013, she joined the cast of the movie Sleeping With The Fishes. She is also working on an album.
On February 27, 2014, Entertainment Weekly announced that Rodriguez would play the titular role of Jane Villanueva in Jane the Virgin, for which she went on to win a Golden Globe Award. On June 4, 2014, Rodriguez joined the cast of the upcoming drama film Sticky Notes. In August 2015, she co-hosted the 2015 Teen Choice Awards with Ludacris and Josh Peck. She voiced Mary in the animated film The Star, which was released in November 2017, as well as Una in Blue Sky Studios' Ferdinand a month later and played Anya in the science fiction thriller film Annihilation, opposite Natalie Portman. She also voices Carmen Sandiego in the Netflix animated series Carmen Sandiego which premiered on January 18, 2019. In March 2018, Netflix announced that they had acquired the live-action film rights for Carmen Sandiego and that Rodriguez would star as Sandiego in the film.
Rodriguez owns the production company I Can & I Will Productions. She worked on projects at CBS and The CW centered around the Latino community. She served as a producer and starred in the 2019 Netflix romantic comedy film Someone Great, where her character sang and danced in her underwear to Lizzo's Truth Hurts, ultimately making the song more popular and hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 2019, Rodriguez starred as the title character in the action thriller film Miss Bala. In the same year, it was announced that Rodriguez was cast in the upcoming Netflix science fiction thriller Awake. She also voiced the role of Velma Dinkley in the computer animated adventure film Scoob!.
Rodriguez served as the executive producer for the Disney+ show Diary of a Future President, where she also starred as the title character as an adult.