<P> Gina Alexis Rodriguez (born July 30, 1984) is an American actress, model, writer, producer, and director . She is best known for her starring role as Jane Villanueva in The CW comedy - drama series Jane the Virgin (2014--present), for which she has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series Musical or Comedy, winning once in 2015 . </P> <P> Rodriguez began her career in theater productions and made her screen debut in an episode of Law & Order . Her breakthrough came in 2012, in the independent musical - drama film Filly Brown . She has gone on to star in the disaster drama film Deepwater Horizon (2016), the animated comedy adventure film Ferdinand (2017), and the science fiction horror film Annihilation (2018). </P> <P> Gina Alexis Rodriguez was born in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest daughter of Puerto Rican parents: Magali and Genaro Rodríguez, a boxing referee . She is the youngest of three sisters . She was raised in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on Chicago's Northwest Side . At the age of seven, Rodriguez performed at the salsa dance company Fantasia Juvenil . Rodriguez was raised Catholic, and attended high school at St. Ignatius College Prep . She continued dancing salsa until age 17 . </P> <P> At the age of 16, she was among thirteen teenagers to be accepted into Columbia University's Theatrical Collaboration . She attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts . She had four years of training at the Atlantic Theater Company and Experimental Theatre Wing, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2005 . She portrayed Frida Kahlo in the world premiere of Casa Blue in the United Kingdom in the play called The Last Moments in the Life of Frida Kahlo at the American Stage Theatre . </P>

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