Gina Rodriguez
Gina Rodriguez
Gina Rodriguezis a media personality, entertainment manager, and former pornographic actress known for her work with controversial clients such as Nadya Suleman, Michael Lohan and Capri Anderson. In 2012, she started GR Media, a full-service management and entertainment company, spun off from her talent management company, DD Entertainment. She added established musical artists, Neal Schonand Adam Barta, as well as reality stars Alex McCord and Angelina Pivarnickto her roster. In 2013, she parted ways with Suleman and signed Patricia Krentciland...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth30 July 1984
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I started salsa dancing with a few different companies and started touring the country. It was fantastic, but I realized that I really wanted to talk every time we were performing. That's a problem because when you're dancing, if you stop to talk, that's not really cool to the other dancers.
Latinos don't go out and support their own films, but at the same time, it's not their responsibility.
I started performing very young as a salsa dancer, and every time I was on that stage dancing, all I knew was that I wanted to speak. I wanted the music to stop, and I wanted to speak.
Being an actress wasn't realistic. I knew that I was going to have to do it in a way that would speak to my parents. So I went to NYU Tisch School of the Arts for theater, and I studied at the conservatory.
I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.
I went to college at NYU for acting, since acting was my dream from very young. I did a lot of hip-hop courses while I was there. I helped co-write a hip-hop production for the main stage of NYU, but I never touched rap.
I will play the characters with last names like Sanchez and Gonzalez until the day I die, but I also want to play the 'Michelle Smiths.'
What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, 'Does this person bite their nails?'
I was a salsa dancer for the majority of my life, from, like, 7 to 17, and did the World Salsa Congresses. I realized that I wanted to continue obviously to be a performer. But in my household, being an actor and jumping into acting is not really accepted.
When I got out of college, I booked a movie called 'Go for It!' with Lionsgate, came out here, and I've been acting ever since - or trying, constantly trying.
I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.
I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.
I dream big, baby. I want to do thrillers, I want to do smart David Lynch-type mysteries.
I'm not messing with skiing. You can't get this Puerto Rican on the slope. Uh-uh.