Gina Alexis Rodriguez LoCicero, also known as Gina Rodriguez is an actress and television producer of American nationality. She is best known for her portrayal of the lead role of Jane Villanueva, on The CW romantic drama comedy TV series known as Jane the Virgin, which aired from 2014 to 2019. She received a Golden Globe Award in the year 2015 for her portrayal of Jane. Gina Rodriguez was born on 30 July in the year 1984, in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America (USA), and was raised in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood, located on the Northwest Side of Chicago. Her parents are from Puerto Rico and their names are Gino and Magali Rodriguez. She has an older brother and two sisters. She was raised as a Catholic and attended the high school at St. Ignatius College Prep. When she was seven years old, Gina learned the salsa dance at Fantasia Juvenil dance company and continued dancing till the age of 17. When she was 16 years old, she was among the 13 students that were on their way to being accepted into Columbia University’s Theatrical Collaboration. Gina Rodriguez attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, along with receiving training at the Atlantic Theatre Company and Experimental Theatre Wing for four years. She eventually graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the year 2005.
Gina Rodriguez revealed in an interview, that has been suffering from a thyroid condition known as Hashimoto’s disease since she was 19 years old. In the year 2016, Gina started a relationship with a model, actor, and MMA fighter named Joe LoCicero, who she met on the set of her show Jane the Virgin. Gina Rodriguez confirmed in an interview with Us Weekly, on 7 August 2018, that she was engaged to Joe LoCicero. The couple got married on 4 May in the year 2019.
Gina Rodriguez Movies
Gina Rodriguez began her acting career in the year 2003 by starring in theatre productions. She made her television screen debut in an episode of the police procedural drama show titled Law & Order. Her breakthrough came in the year 2012 when she starred in the independent musical-drama film titled Filly Brown. Since then she has gone on to star in numerous movies and television shows, which are as follows:
Filly Brown (2012)
Filly Brown is a drama film that was released in the year 2012 and was directed by Youssef Delara and Michael D. Olmos. The show depicts the story of a young and promising hip-hop artist from Los Angeles, that finds herself in a dilemma, when a record producer offers her a shot at stardom but with great personal sacrifices. The film stars Gina Rodriguez in the lead role of Maria Jose “Majo” Tenorio, Jenni Rivera as Maria Tenorio, Lou Diamond Phillips as Jose Tenorio, and Edward James Olmos as Leandro. The film was nominated for Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival held in 2012 and also won Best Feature Film at the Noor Iranian Film Festival held in the year 2013. Filly Brown was Gina Rodriguez’s breakthrough role in the film industry. Filly Brown can be viewed online on Hulu.
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Sleeping with the Fishes (2013)
Sleeping with the Fishes is a 2013 film that stars Gina Rodriguez as the lead character, as well as Ana Ortiz and Priscilla Lopez. The story depicts the story of a woman, Alexis “Lexi” Fish (portrayed by Rodriguez), who lives in LA, and works as a mascot as well as an occasional sex phone operation. Lexi is struggling to cope financially after her husband dies. She travels to New York to attend the funeral of an estranged aunt, and while she is there, she argues and butts heads with her critical mother named Estella. Lexi’s sister Kayla, gives her the job of arranging a Bat Mitzvah party for the daughter of one of her friends Mrs. Wasserstein. She also meets Dominic, a club owner, and his son. Lexi eventually reveals to both Dominic and her mother, that though she and her husband seemed to have a perfect marriage, he cheated on her multiple times and left her with a huge debt. Sleeping with The Fishes can be viewed online on Amazon Prime Video.
Jane the Virgin (2014 – 2019)
Jane the Virgin is a romantic comedy-drama and a satirical telenovela of American origin that was developed by Jennie Snyder Urman. The show is based loosely on the Venezuelan telenovela named Juana la virgin, which was created by Perla Farias. The show premiered on 13 October 2014 and ended on 31 July 2019. The show is produced by Ben Silverman, Gary Pearl, Jorge Granier, Meredith Averill, Gina Lamar, and Sean Canino. Jane the Virgin is set in Miami and details the dramatic events that unfold in the life of Jane Villanueva, who is a young religious Venezuelan- American woman, who loves to write. Jane has made a promise to her grandmother that she will be a virgin until she gets married. This promise is broken when Jane’s doctor accidentally artificially inseminates her during a checkup. Things get worse, when Jane finds out that the biological father of the baby is a married man and the new owner of the hotel where Jane currently works. Jane faces a tough choice as this was the last frozen sample and thereby the last chance for the biological dad named Rafael, to become a father. Throughout the show, Jane is faced with tough decisions relating to her pregnancy, motherhood, professional career, and her boyfriend, whom she has been dating for 2 years before the events of the series. The show also deals with social issues of immigration laws and healthcare in the US. Jane The Virgin can be viewed online on Netflix and Amazon Prime.
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Miss Bala (2019)
Miss Bala is an action thriller film of American origin that was released on 1 February 2019. The film is directed by Catherine Hardwicke and written by Gareth Dunnet Alcocer. The film stars Gina Rodriguez, Anthony Mackie, and Ismael Cruz Cordova in the lead roles. The movie’s protagonist, Gloria Fuentes (portrayed by Rodriguez) is a Latina makeup artist who works in Los Angeles and goes to meet her best friend named Suzu, who lives in Tijuana, located in Mexico. The two friends go to a nightclub, wherein Suzu is kidnapped by a group of gunmen. In an attempt to rescue Suzu, Gloria goes to the police for help, who abandons her in the desert, wherein she is kidnapped by the Los Estrellas drug cartel. She meets the cartel’s boss Lino, who agrees to help her find Suzu if she does some favors for him. Miss Bala can be viewed online on Netflix.
Scoob! (2020)
Scoob! is a computer-animated mystery comedy film of American origin. The film is directed by Tony Cervone and is based on Hanna-Barbera’s Scooby-Doo franchise. The film is produced by Pam Coats and Allison Abbate and stars Will Forte, Gina Rodriguez, Amanda Seyfried, and Zac Efron as the voices of Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, and Fred, respectively. The film was released on 15 May 2020 and depicts the story of a lonely and young Shaggy, who becomes friends with and later adopts a talking stray Great Dane, who he gives the name Scooby-Doo. On the night of Halloween, before entering a haunted house, Shaggy and Scooby meet three young children, Daphne Blake, Fred Jones, and Velma Dinkley. Once the group enters the haunted house, they catch a thief that is disguised as a ghost, which inspires the group to form Mystery Inc. and thereby solve mysteries together. Scoob! can be viewed online on Netflix.
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Awake (2021)
Awake is a sci-fi thriller film of American origin that is directed by Mark Raso and written by Joseph Raso and Mark Raso. The film is produced by Paul Schiff and stars Gina Rodriguez, Finn Jones, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barry Pepper, Frances Fisher, Shamier Anderson, and Gil Bellows. The film premiered on 9 June 2021, wherein it reached the number one position on Netflix, the day that it was released. The film depicts a mysterious catastrophe that has wiped out the power of electronics and has taken away mankind’s ability to sleep. The scientists are in a race against time, wherein they have to find a cure for mysterious insomnia before its deadly effects destroy the human race. Gina Rodriguez portrays the role of Jill, a recovering drug addict and former U.S. Armey medic, who discovers that her daughter is the only one who can sleep and is the key to mankind’s salvation and hence is the target of other people. Jill must now decide whether to protect her children or to sacrifice everything to save the world. Awake can be viewed online on Netflix.
The above-mentioned movies are just a small part of Gina Rodriguez’s professional career. She has appeared in various other movies such as Our Family Wedding, California Winter, Enter the Dangerous Mind, Sticky Notes, Deepwater Horizon, Annihilation, Small Foot and I Want You Back. She has also appeared in various TV shows such as Law & Order, Happy Endings, The Mentalist, The Bold and the Beautiful, Longmire, Rizzoli and Isles, Lip Sync Battle, Drop the Mic, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Animals, Big Mouth, Elena of Avalor, Carmen Sandiego and Robot Chicken.
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