Biography

Jenna Marie Ortega (born September 27, 2002) is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress, receiving recognition for her role as young Jane on The CW comedy-drama series Jane the Virgin (2014–2019). She had her breakthrough for starring as Harley Diaz on the Disney Channel series Stuck in the Middle (2016–2018), for which she won an Imagen Award. She played Ellie Alves in the second season of the Netflix thriller series You in 2019 and starred in the Netflix family film Yes Day (2021). Ortega received critical praise for her performance in the teen drama The Fallout (2021), and went on to star in the slasher films X (2022), Scream (2022) and its sequel Scream VI (2023), establishing herself as a scream queen. She starred as Wednesday Addams in the Netflix horror comedy series Wednesday (2022), for which she received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a SAG Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jenna Ortega, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.