Jessica Taylor Darrow is an American actress, voice actress, and singer, best known for voicing the character Luisa Madrigal in Disney's Encanto and for playing Mikki Easton in Fifteen-Love. Darrow was born in Miami, Florida. She is of Cuban descent.
As a teenager, she watched Disney films and listened to songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Darrow attended and graduated from Rutgers University. Darrow's first film role was Sarah in the 2019 film Feast of the Seven Fishes, directed by Robert Tinnell.
She rose to fame in 2021 acting in the Disney animated feature film Encanto as the voice of Luisa Madrigal. She sang one of the film's most popular songs, "Surface Pressure", which was certified platinum by the RIAA and peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 2022. Darrow voiced Mimi in Grand Theft Auto Online's 2021 update "Los Santos Tuners."
In an interview for Deadline Hollywood, Darrow voiced her support of the LGBT community in the wake of the Parental Rights in Education Act passage in Miami, where she was born, "Here I am being queer and gorgeous, and I'm on the red carpet, and I'm very happy to represent fellow gorgeous queer people."
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(Hamster & Gretel)
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- Jessica exhibited acting ability as early as the 5th grade, appearing on her elementary school's closed-circuit television morning show.
- Her abilities were later honed and developed at the Visual & Performing Arts Program at Southwood Middle School, and also at the Miami Children's Theatre, where she appeared in multiple productions.
- Her mother, Sonia Egea, is Cuban and is a retired Publix Supermarkets cashier.
- Her father, Mark, is of mixed European ethnicity and is a retired Miami-Dade (County) police officer.
- Her abilities were later honed and developed at the Visual & Performing Arts Program at Southwood Middle School, and also at the Miami Children's Theatre, where she appeared in multiple productions.
