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Gina Rodriguez        

Award-Winning Actress, Producer, Director, Model & Humanitarian

Gina Rodriguez is an award-winning actress, producer, director, model, and humanitarian.

She is best known for her role as Jane Villanueva in The CW comedy-drama series Jane The Virgin, for which she has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series Musical or Comedy, and won in 2015. Season four of Jane the Virgin featured Rodriguez's directorial debut, and the show concluded after its fifth season in 2019.

Her film credits include Deepwater Horizon, and the animated films The Star and Ferdinand, which both received Golden Globe nominations this year for Best Original Song. In 2019, her stardom only continued to grow, and she starred in Catherine Hardwicke's Miss Bala and Netflix's Someone Great. She has also appeared on popular television shows such as Big Mouth, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and voiced the titular character in Carmen Sandiego.

With her producing partner Emily Gipson, Gina recently launched I CAN AND I WILL PRODUCTIONS, which is committed to promoting diverse culture on the screen, and has already sold multiple projects in an overall deal with CBS Television Studios.

Rodriguez has been honored by Unite 4:Humanity with the Young Humanitarian Award for her philanthropic efforts. This includes establishing the We Will Foundation to provide funding for young women in the arts, joining the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Board of Directors, and working with the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, NCLR, CHCI, NALIP, and Voto Latino.

She has also partnered with Naja, a lingerie brand that primarily employs single mothers and donates towards school books, lunches and uniforms for employees' children.

Speech Topics


I Can and I Will

It is an inspiring talk about her upbringing in a troubled neighborhood being taught by her father to overcome and succeed in any situation.

Every night for 20 years, Gino Rodriguez (Gina’s father) knelt beside his three daughters’ beds and whispered an incantation. As rats the size of footballs skittered along the floor of the basement apartment on the South Side of Chicago, he repeated the same five words into each girl’s ear as she slept: “I can and I will.” The message was always the same, and the audience was always asleep. The girls occasionally woke up during their father’s nightly pep talks, rolled their eyes and then went back to sleep. But each morning, they did a series of jumping jacks, looked in the mirror and said, “Today is going to be a great day. I can and I will.”

And one by one, they proved their father right: they could and they did. Ivelisse Rodriguez Simon graduated from Harvard Business School and is now a partner at a private-equity firm. Rebecca Rodriguez is the medical director of one of the best family-health clinics in the country. And Gina Rodriguez won a Best Actress Golden Globe for her starring role on Jane the Virgin.

News


Gina Rodriguez on representation behind the camera in the making of
Gina Rodriguez is as excited about what happens on screen in her latest film " Miss Bala" as she is about what happened behind the lens while making it.
Gina Rodriguez Aims to Prove There's More to Her Than 'Jane' | Time
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Gina Rodriguez Opens Up About Living With Hashimoto's Disease ...
Gina Rodriguez is having a fantastic year. She has two upcoming films, her hit show Jane the Virgin, and she's also become a predominate name in Hollywood  ...
Jane the Virgin Star Gina Rodriguez Explains Why She Went Blonde ...
The Jane the Virgin star, 32, recently went blonde after chopping a lot of her hair off for her work in the just-wrapped Alex Garland-directed sci-fi thriller ...
Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez Won't Label Her Sexuality: I Love ...
If there's one thing fans love about Gina Rodriguez, it's the simple fact that she always interacts with fans on social media. So perhaps it should come as no ...
Gina Rodriguez Has the Perfect Solution to Hollywood’s Diversity Issue
It’s probably safe to say no one has had the amount of career growth Gina Rodriguez has over the last two years. After years of small roles in TV and indie films, including a stint on The Bold and the Beautiful, Rodriguez finally got her big break as the titular character Jane on The CW’s Jane the Virgin and she’s been on everyone’s “One to Watch” list ever since. The award-winning actress, whose show just got picked up for a third season and has three films coming out this year, opened up to Celebuzz about the road trip that changed her life, why she’ll never feel like she’s made it, and how to solve the diversity issue in Hollywood.
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Gina Rodriguez Talks #InnerStyle: "It Took Me So Long to Be Comfortable With the Woman I Am"
When Gina Rodriguez scored a Golden Globe nomination for her starring role in 'Jane the Virgin,' she gave her supporters a shout-out with a simple tweet: “My hustle is only as strong as my crew.” That crew is rolling deeper than ever for the actress. This year, in addition to stepping back into Jane Villanueva’s colorful dresses, she’s writing a book and sitting on the board of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund. Inside the March issue of 'InStyle,' now available on newsstands and for digital download, Emily Greener, co-founder of I Am That Girl, chats with the 31-year-old about being a late bloomer, false realities, and what it's like being “a caramel baby from Chicago.” Thomas Whiteside
#ImWithHer: Jamie Lee Curtis, Shonda Rhimes among celebs backing Hillary Clinton
In a new video accompanied by the hashtag #ImWithHer, 17 celebrity women express their support for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
'Jane the Virgin's' Gina Rodriguez Is Dating Ben Schwartz!
Off the market! Gina Rodriguez is dating House of Lies actor Ben Schwartz, Us Weekly can exclusively confirm.
Gina Rodriguez, the Latina Meryl Streep? - CNN.com
Gina Rodriguez, who won a Golden Globe on Sunday, is challenging Hollywood's prejudices and blind spots.
'Jane the Virgin' Actress Gina Rodriguez on Living With Hashimoto's ...
On her hit TV show "Jane the Virgin," which kicks off its second season tonight, star Gina Rodriguez weathers no shortage of curveballs: an unplanned ...
Exclusive! Gina Rodriguez Lands Her First Major Fashion Campaign ...
Gina Rodriguez's star continues to soar. I can exclusively reveal that the Jane the Virgin star h...
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