Gomez began her acting career at age seven, playing Gianna on Barney & Friends.In a 2009 interview with People, Gomez mentioned that she developed an early interest in acting from watching her mother prepare for and act in theater productions.She earned a high school diploma through homeschooling in May 2010. She is named after Tejano singer Selena, who died almost three years after Gomez was born. We do everything that's Catholic, but we don't really have anything traditional except go to the park and have barbecues on Sundays after church.'Her birth parents divorced when she was five years old, and she was raised as an only child by her working mother. Regarding her Hispanic heritage, Gomez said: 'My family does have Quinceañeras, and we go to the communion church. Her father is of Mexican ancestry, and her mother is of part Italian descent. She is the daughter of former stage actress Amanda Dawn 'Mandy' Teefey (née Cornett) and Ricardo Joel Gomez. She made her starring theatrical film debut in Ramona and Beezus. She subsequently ventured into feature films and has starred in the television movies Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, and Princess Protection Program. Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American actress and singer best known for portraying Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place.

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