Francia Raisa Almendarez was born on July 26,1988 and is an American actress.
14 Facts About Francia Raisa
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Francia Raisa was born in Los Angeles, California to a Mexican mother, Virginia Almendarez, and Renan Almendarez Coello, a Honduran-born radio personality; and raised in Los Angeles.
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Francia Raisa attended Bishop Alemany High School in Mission Hills, California, where she was a cheerleader.
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Francia Raisa began to take acting jobs in her junior year of high school, modeling for print ads and appearing in commercials.
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Francia Raisa guest-starred in the sitcoms American Family: Journey of Dreams and Over There.
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Francia Raisa appeared in Lil' Romeo's music video "My Girlfriend" as Tamy in 2004 and in Iyaz's music video "So Big".
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Francia Raisa co-starred in the Nickelodeon movie Shredderman Rules, where she portrayed Isabel, and in The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream and The Cutting Edge: Fire and Ice as Alexandra Delgado.
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Francia Raisa played the role of Adrian Lee in the hit ABC Family drama, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, from its beginning in July 2008, until the series finale in early June 2013.
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In 2009, Francia Raisa guest-starred on the USA Network's TV series In Plain Sight and co-starred in a short film directed by David Henrie called Boo, which aired on YouTube.
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In 2013, Francia Raisa starred in the Christmas-themed movie Christmas Bounty alongside Mike "The Miz" Mizanin.
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From 2018 to 2022, Francia Raisa starred in the Freeform show, Grown-ish, executive produced by Black-ish creator Kenya Barris.
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Francia Raisa starred in the show's first four seasons, exiting upon the character's graduation at the end of the fourth season.
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Francia Raisa starred in Freeform's 2018 television film, Life-Size 2, opposite Tyra Banks.
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In May 2021, Francia Raisa was cast in How I Met Your Mother's spinoff series How I Met Your Father, which premiered on Hulu on January 18,2022.