"[284] Gomez served as an executive producer for the Netflix docuseries Living Undocumented, released in October 2019, [100], Gomez confirmed in January 2012 that she would be taking a break from music, placing Selena Gomez & the Scene on hiatus. [109][110] The film premiered at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in September,[111] and was released the following year. [388] In August, it was announced that Gomez is in talks to produce a reboot of Working Girl on Hulu. [112] The story followed four college-aged girls who decide to rob a fast food restaurant in order to pay for their spring break. [335], Gomez starred in and executive produced the Hulu mystery-comedy series Only Murders in the Building alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short,[336] which premiered on Hulu in August 2021,[337] and set the record for the most-watched comedy premiere in Hulu history. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. [273], Gomez appeared in Jim Jarmusch's comedy horror The Dead Don't Die (2019). Grand Prairie native Selena Gomez has topped the music charts and graced the silver screen, however, her newest project marks a career first. Selena Marie Gomez (/slin omz/ s-LEE-n GOH-mez; born July 22, 1992) is an American singer, actress, and producer. Her father moved the family to his hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas, to start over again. [419] She hosted the "Sears Arrive Air Band Casting Call" to select five winners for the first-ever "Sears Air Band" to perform at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. [295] The album received positive reviews from music critics, who praised its production and cohesiveness, with many calling it Gomez's best album to date;[296][297][298] Jem Aswad of Variety labeled Rare "one of the best pop albums to be released in recent memory" and described it as "sophisticated, precisely written and expertly produced music". Because of lupus which is a condition that you were born with, Gomez continues to deal with the effects of her condition and one of the effects of the condition is her weight fluctuation. To witness first hand these families' struggles, and also their hope and perseverance, was truly inspiring". [175] Gomez later reprised the voice role of Mavis in Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015); the film was met with a positive critical reception and commercial success upon release,[176] grossing $474 million worldwide. At one point, Gomez recalls, they had to search for quarters just to get gas for their car. ", "6 Things You Never Knew About "Lizzie McGuire", "The 25 best Disney Channel Original Series of all time", "Selena Gomez to Executive-Produce and Star in New 'Wizards of Waverly Place' Television Event on Disney Channel", "29th Annual Young Artist Awards - Nominations / Special Awards", "Did You Know These Stars Are the Voices Behind Your Favorite Animated Characters? [331][332] With this EP and the single "Baila Conmigo", she became the first female act to top the US Latin Albums and Latin Airplay charts simultaneously in over a decade. [80][81] The film was well received by critics;[82] Roger Ebert described it as "a sweet salute," and found both actresses "appealing". [258] The song reached the top five on charts in Australia and Canada,[259] and peaked at number eighteen in the U.S.[50] Gomez once again voiced the character Mavis in Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, released in July of that year. She has worked with many charitable organizations and served as a UNICEF ambassador since age 17. American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. [361][362][363] The film was released on Amazon Prime Video in January 2022 to mixed reviews. ", "Selena Gomez: 'I'll be 30 Before I Get My License! [193], Gomez made a cameo appearance in Adam McKay's film The Big Short (2015). Lake Jackson, Texas Selena was born in Lake Jackson, Texas, 50 miles southeast of Houston, to Abraham Quintanilla Jr. [318] She was also named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). [207] After touring in North America, Asia and Oceania, she canceled the European and South America legs in August 2016 due to anxiety, panic attacks and depression caused by her lupus. She posted a photo sitting on the steps to her childhood home in Grand Prairie. Gomez was born when her mother was sixteen years old . [432], From 2013 to 2015, Gomez was a spokesperson and partner for Neo by Adidas. [62] She next starred in Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, a television film based on the series. Gomez remarked that "UNICEF is helping Chilean families get out of poverty, prevent violence within the home and promote education. [444] The makeup line was named Startup of the Year at the 2020 WWD Beauty Inc Awards. [364][365] Gomez was nominated as executive producer for a Children's and Family Emmy Award. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. 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Austin on being latin", "Selena Gomez Supports Her Mom at Foster Care Fundraiser", "How Selena Gomez embraced her Mexican heritage as 'a source of healing', "Selena Gomez Has a Baby Sister! [542], 20072012: Breakthrough with Disney and Selena Gomez & the Scene, Caulfield, Keith. [506], Gomez was raised Catholic. In 2015 Gomez revealed that she had been diagnosed with lupus. [338] Ahead of the official premiere of the series, Gomez revealed that she was happy to have played a character that matched her current actual age, saying that she "signed [her] life away" to The Walt Disney Company at the start of her career and that she "did not know what she was doing. [491] Time included Gomez on its annual list of the 100 most influential people in 2020. [470], From 2009 to 2012, Gomez was involved in "Disney's Friends for Change", an organization which promoted "environmentally-friendly behavior", and appeared in its public service announcements. Gomez addressed the controversy, saying that "We stayed very true to the book and that's initially what [author] Jay Asher created was a beautifully tragic, complicated yet suspenseful story and I think that's what we wanted to do. She began her music career on Disney projects, including singing the theme song for Wizards of Waverly Place, in which she also starred. She has received various accolades and was named Billboard's Woman of the Year in 2017, and she also broke 15 Guinness World Records. [77][78] Although the lead single was not commercially successful,[50] the second single, "Naturally", reached number twenty-nine in the U.S. and number seven in the United Kingdom. Apart from her movie appearances, she also recorded another album, 'When the Sun Goes Down'. Selena Gomez said she was exposed to racism at a young age due to discrimination against her father, who's of Mexican descent, in an interview with People on Wednesday. Gomez, who was named after the popular Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez, was raised in suburban Dallas. [5] [6] Her father is of Mexican descent, while her mother, who was adopted, has Italian ancestry. [84] The album received mixed to positive reviews, where some critics reacting negatively to Gomez's Auto-Tuned vocals. [289] The next day, she surprise-released the album's second single, "Look at Her Now". Gomez also voiced a character in the animated Hotel Transylvania (2012) and its sequels (2015, 2018) as well as Dolittle (2020). In 2008, she organized her own music group, naming it 'Selena Gomez & the Scene', and also founded a production house called, 'July Moon Productions'. Selena Gomezs new home has everything she could possibly need. Gomez released three albums with her former band, Selena Gomez & the Scene, all of which reached the top ten of the US Billboard 200 and were certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA): Kiss & Tell (2009), A Year Without Rain (2010), and When the Sun Goes Down (2011). When the Disney singer was much younger, you could see that her upper lip was rather thin in proportion to her beautiful face. Selena Gomez and the Scene is a pop music band with Selena Gomez as the lead singer. Her third studio album, Rare (2020), became her third consecutive number one in the US, and its lead single, "Lose You to Love Me", her first number-one song in the US and Canada. [472] In April 2012, Gomez was named ambassador to the Ryan Seacrest Foundation. [165] The single became her second top-ten hit in the U.S.[50] That same month, Gomez released her first solo compilation album, For You. An only child, she grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas. [380] Gomez released the song "My Mind & Me" to coincide with the release of the documentary. Around the same time, the band 'Selena Gomez & the Scene' also released her debut music album, 'Kiss & Tell'. She purchased the private, Studio City house for $2.35 million. Selena decided she didn't want to make solo albums, but wanted to be part of a band. [461] She was also featured in videos that promoted the campaign. [466], Gomez was involved in the UR Votes Count campaign, which encouraged teenagers to learn more about 2008 presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. [97] Nick Schager from Slant Magazine found Gomez "cute, but too bland to lend the proceedings any vivid character, except for the few scenes that allow her to indulge her cold, sarcastic, nasty side as Cordelia". [108] Gomez was part of the ensemble cast of the controversial exploitation Harmony Korine-directed Spring Breakers (2012), starring James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine. [460] In March 2011, Gomez participated in the UNICEF Tap Project's "Celebrity Tap Pack" which featured limited-edition, custom-made water bottles with tap water from the homes of each celebrity advocate to raise funds and increase profile for the clean water and sanitation programs. 22 Hot 100 Hits for '22: Selena Gomez's 'Love You Like a Love Song' & More", "Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester Recall 'Monte Carlo' Perks", "Selena Gomez Practices to Play Polo in Budapest for 'Monte Carlo' Role", "First look: Selena Gomez stretches out in 'Monte Carlo', "Movie Review: Monte Carlo and the Problem With the Princess-for-a-Day Flick", "Selena Gomez to host MTV Europe music awards in Belfast", "Selena Gomez takes 'a break' from music", "Selena Gomez Says She's Finally Done With 'Wizards of Waverly Place'-and Breaks Away From Her Band The Scene", "TV Diva: Selena Gomez's "Wizards of Waverly Place" ends after four seasons", "Miley Cyrus drops out of 'Hotel Transylvania', Selena Gomez steps in", "Emma Roberts, Selena Gomez & Vanessa Hudgens Star In Spring Break Flick", "Rachel Korine (Yes, Harmony's Wife) Joins 'Spring Breakers', "25 Movies That Divided Film Critics and Moviegoers", "BBC - Culture - The 21st Century's 100 greatest films", "Selena Gomez Learns From Ethan Hawke on 'Getaway,' Gets Into Producing (Video)", "First Trailer for GETAWAY Starring Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez", "Hollywood's Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2013", "The 34th Annual RAZZIE Award Nominees for 2013", "Selena Gomez's 'Wizards of Waverly Place' TV Movie Gets Premiere Date", "Selena Gomez Says She's Finally Done With 'Wizards', "Selena Gomez Announces New Single, 'Come & Get It', "Chart Highlights: Selena Gomez 'Get's New No. My lil sissy Gracie Elliot Teefey was born on June 12th. She is good friends with a number of other teen stars including Demi Lovato. [390] She also revealed that she was working on her next album. Even her musical tour, also named 'Stars Dance', was quite successful with a significant increase in her fan base. [308][309] In June, Gomez featured in a remix of Trevor Daniel's song, "Past Life". [50][79] In July 2010, Gomez starred alongside Joey King in Ramona and Beezus, a film adaptation of the children's novel series by Beverly Cleary, in which she portrayed Beezus Quimby. [280] The film received mixed reviews from critics,[281] but Gomez's performance was praised;[282][283] Variety's Jessica Kiang wrote: "Gomez comes out the best of the younger cast, husking her way through some of the films better lines. This biography provides detailed information about his childhood, profile, career and timeline. [63] The film premiered in August to an audience of 11.4million viewers, becoming cable's number-one scripted telecast of the year and was the second-most watched TV movie on cable, behind High School Musical 2. [474] She was also a spokesperson for State Farm Insurance and appeared in numerous television commercials, which aired on the Disney Channel, to raise awareness of being a safe driver. [42] The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing nearly $300million worldwide. [507] In 2017, she said she did not like the term "religion" and that sometimes it "freaks me out," adding, "I don't know if it's necessarily that I believe in religion as much as I believe in faith and a relationship with God. [271] Gomez also featured on Julia Michaels's single "Anxiety", released in January 2019,[272] and released the following month a collaboration with Tainy, Benny Blanco and J Balvin, titled "I Can't Get Enough". The show was a success, and so was her theme song, 'Everything is Not What It Seems', shooting the talented actor to stardom, in the process getting compared to fellow performer, Miley Cyrus. She got her first real acting job on the kids show Barney & Friends at the age of 7. [384][385] In November 2020, Gomez was announced as executive producer and star of the Elgin James-directed biographical film In the Shadow of the Mountain, based on the memoir of Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, the first openly gay woman to complete the Seven Summits. [329] It spawned three singles: "De Una Vez", "Baila Conmigo" with Rauw Alejandro, and "Selfish Love" with DJ Snake. [413][418], In 2009, Gomez was part of Sears's back-to-school fashion campaign and featured in television commercials. Selena Gomez looked mortified as she denied dating Brooklyn Beckham in a resurfaced clip from 2015. 1 Album.". It's a lot of effort and hard work from everyone involved. [56] She later announced a film adaptation of the novel Thirteen Reasons Why, in which she was to play a young girl who commits suicide; ultimately, neither film was made,[57] but Gomez would later executive produce a television adaptation of Thirteen Reasons Why. In 2015-16, Selena is expected to be seen in upcoming movies like 'Hotel Transylvania 2', 'In Dubious Battle', 'The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving', and 'The Big Short'. Her mother had been an actress herself, and Gomez wanted to follow in her footsteps. [21], Gomez first gained an interest in pursuing a career in entertainment watching her mother prepare for stage productions. [50] "Hands to Myself" served as the album's third single and became her third consecutive number one on the Mainstream Top 40,[191] making Gomez one of only six female artists to have three singles from the same album top the chart. Her next album Prairie, Texas, to start over again surprise-released the album mixed. 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