Jenna Ortega
One of the fastest-rising younga actors, 20-year-old Scream and Wednesday star Jenna Ortega told MovieMaker she broke into the industry by pleading with her mom, a nurse, starting at the age of six. She grew up in the Coachella Valley, the fourth of six children.
“I initially wanted to start acting when I was six years old, but my mom said no. So I kind of pleaded with her for a while, and to shut me up, she got me this monologue book she got at Barnes and Noble,” Ortega said. “I did this monologue for her about my mom dying of cancer, and she taped it and she put it on her Facebook as a joke. I think she captioned it something similar to, ‘Oh, my little drama queen.’
“And a casting director just so happened to watch the tape and contacted my mom and said, ‘Hey, I have a friend who’s an agent. I think that your daughter should meet with them.’ So my mom kind of dug her own grave with that one.”
Her latest film is the fishing drama Finestkind.
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