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Gina Alexis Rodriguez is an American actress, who is best known for her role as Jane Villanueva in The CW telenovela Jane the Virgin. She also portrayed Andrea Fleytas in the 2016 disaster film Deepwater Horizon and voiced Una the hedgehog in the Blue Sky Studios film Ferdinand, Mary in the Sony Pictures animated biblical comedy film The Star (both released in 2017), and Kolka in the 2018 WAG animated film Smallfoot. Additionally, she voiced the titular character of the 2019 Netflix adaptation of Carmen Sandiego and Velma Dinkley in the 2020 WAG computer-animated film Scoob!.

For Disney, she voiced Princess Marisa in Disney Channel/Disney Junior animated series Elena of Avalor and portrayed the future version of Elena Cañero-Reed in Diary of a Future President. She also directed an episode of Doogie Kameāloha, M.D..

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Rodriguez is the youngest daughter of Puerto Rican parents, Magali and Gino Rodriguez. Her father was a boxing referee. She has an older brother and two sisters. She was raised in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on Chicago's Northwest Side. At the age of seven, Rodriguez performed at the salsa dance company Fantasia Juvenil. Rodriguez was raised Catholic and went to high school at St. Ignatius College Prep, where she was two years behind comedian John Mulaney. She has stated that she did not attend "Jake McNamara's party", which is the subject of one of Mulaney's bits. She focused on salsa dancing until age 17 when she began acting more.

At the age of 16, she was among thirteen teenagers to be accepted into Columbia University's Theatrical Collaboration. She attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She trained for four years at the Atlantic Theater Company and Experimental Theatre Wing and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2005.

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