Jenna Ortega is only 20 years old and is gaining more and more space in Hollywood. The actress stars in ‘Wandinha’, the new Netflix series based on the famous ‘The Addams Family’ story, and is one of the streaming guests for a CCXP22 panel taking place next Saturday (3). .
From a young age, she appeared in several horror productions: the second season of You, about a stalker; starred in “Pânico” (2022); was part of the cast of X: A Marca da Morte, the indie slasher released this year and was one of the survivors in A Babá A Rainha da Morte (2020). The actress also appeared in Terror at Studio 666 (2022) and Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013). Ufa!
With so many productions in the genre on the curriculum, Jenna Ortega has been dubbed “the new queen of terror,” but she herself believes the title makes no sense.
In conversation with splash, The actress says she doesn’t see herself that way and says there’s still a long way to go.
“I have a few more lives to survive, but I think people like to kill me,” he joked.
Jenna explained to the New York Times why she still doesn’t like the position: Until she was a teenager, she was very anxious and couldn’t even sleep without a light on.
Born in California on September 27, 2002, the actress is the fourth of six children. His parents are of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent.
Before Jenna became one of the biggest names in the genre, she was considered a Disney star, as her first successful work was the youth series The Middle Sister (2016). She also made history by lending her voice to the animation “Elena de Avalor,” which aired between 2016 and 2020 and told the story of the studio’s first Latin American princess.
However, his career began earlier: at the age of nine.
“I saw Dakota Fanning in Flames of Revenge and told my parents I was going to be Puerto Rican Dakota Fanning,” she told the New York Times. Having prophesied her profession, the girl for three years asked her parents to help her become an actress.
Jenna Ortega is one of the new “Queens of Horror”
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Until after a long begging he got a book with monologues. When she played one of them, her mother filmed and posted the scene on Facebook. So Jenna went viral.
He made his television debut in 2012 in an episode of the series Rob. Then in 2013, she had a small role in Iron Man 3 as the daughter of the Vice President of the United States.
Today, Jenna Ortega has various titles in her career, such as Lovely Mafioso (2014), Rich Rich Rich (2015), After Words (2015), Saving Flora (2018), Jane The Virgin ( 2014), Life After (2012) and many others.