gina rodriguez

Born in Chicago on July 30, 1984, Gina Alexis Rodriguez is the youngest of the three daughters of a Puerto Rican immigrant couple. Her father, a boxing coach, advised her to always repeat when she woke up “today is going to be a great day, I can and I must”, a mantra that she continues to repeat to herself today.

As a child, she received a Catholic education, in addition to being fond of dancing since she started in a dance group at the age of seven. She kept practicing until at 17 she was chosen as one of thirteen young people Columbia University accepts each year for her theater program. She then went on to New York University’s Tisch School of Art, where she had among others William H. Macy and Philip Seymour Hoffman as professors.

He began his professional journey with tiny roles in series like Law and Order , and some theatrical experience. In 2012, she was recruited for a fixed character in Beauty and Power , a soap opera that began airing in the United States in 1987, and which continues on the air today (actor Ron Moss, the young heartthrob of the series, has become a grandfather respectable). She played Beverly, an intern at the design firm of one of the Forresters, the leading clan. In addition, she was recruited to star in Filly Brown , a musical in which she played Majo Tonorio, an aspiring hip-hop songwriter. Unfortunately, it had little impact.

Gina Rodriguez’s career changed forever when she was chosen to lead the cast of Jane the Virgin , The CW comedy that sarcastically adapts the Venezuelan soap opera Juana, the Virgin , taking advantage of its impossible plot to gracefully parody this type of production. She plays Jane Gloriana Villanueva, a Latina woman artificially inseminated by a mistake by a doctor who examines her during a checkup. “She was exactly the third person to go to the casting, but we were convinced that it was not going to be necessary to interview more actresses,” said Jennie Snyder Urman, executive producer. Turned into a revelation (along with the hilarious Jaime Camil, who plays her biological father), won the 2015 Golden Globe for Best Comedy TV Actress.

He thinks that this fiction has triumphed because despite the permanent resort to hyperbole, it perfectly portrays current Latino families in the United States. “In the series, my grandmother speaks to me in Spanish and I answer in English. That happens a lot among Latin Americans in my country, ”she explains. “It has never been seen on television, and the kids who see it will think that the same thing happens to them. In addition, Jane’s close relationships with her mother and her grandmother reflect the way of being of Hispanic Americans, it is a very human story ”.

The success of  Jane the Virgin has caused them to start calling Gina Rodriguez for weight films, such as Black Tide , starring Mark Wahlberg . She plays a real character, Andrea Fleytas, a worker on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, who discovered that it was on fire. She also shares the screen with Natalie Portman in Annihilation , Alex Garland ‘s sci-fi film .

The pink media have aired the private life of Gina Rodriguez as if it were a soap opera. In recent times, she has been credited with an affair with Ben Schwartz , another well-known face on the small screen, for series like Parks & Recreation . She has denied it, despite the fact that she admits that she dreams of starting a family soon. “I pray to God that I know how to raise my children when I find the love of my life, get married and have them.”