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Rachel Anne Zegler is an American actress, singer, and YouTuber, who for Disney, played the lead role of María Vasquez in the 2021 live-action film West Side Story, which marked her acting debut. She is also set to star as Snow White in the live-action adaptation of the Disney animated film, among other projects.

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Zegler was born on May 3, 2001, in Hackensack, New Jersey at the Hackensack University Medical Center and raised in Clifton, New Jersey, where she attended St. Philip the Apostle Preparatory School. She is of Polish and Colombian-American descent. She then attended the Catholic all-girls college-preparatory Immaculate Conception High School, where she starred in the school's musicals all four years: as Belle in Beauty and the Beast (2016), Ariel in The Little Mermaid (2017), Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street (2018), and Princess Fiona in Shrek the Musical (2019). For all four performances, she received Metro Award nominations in the Actress in a Leading Role category. Her other roles have included Serena in Legally Blonde, Cosette in Les Miserables, Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Mimi in Rent. She graduated from high school on June 2, 2019.

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