40 Fun Facts About Gina Rodriguez

Which future Netflix star played the ten-year-old version of Gina Rodriguez's character in Jane the Virgin flashbacks?

Jenna Ortega was the most frequent of the four younger Janes seen in flashbacks. Years later she became a household name as Wednesday Addams.

Gina Rodriguez won which major award for playing Jane Villanueva in the first season of Jane the Virgin?

A Golden Globe for best actress in a TV comedy went to Rodriguez at the 72nd ceremony. Jane the Virgin itself was nominated for best comedy series the same night.

Which jet-setting title character did Gina Rodriguez voice for four seasons of a Netflix animated series?

Carmen Sandiego, the thief in the red fedora and trenchcoat, got a new backstory in the series. Rita Moreno, who voiced her in the 1990s cartoon, returned to play a villain.

Which WWE star voiced the gentle bull opposite Gina Rodriguez's Una in the animated film Ferdinand?

John Cena voiced Ferdinand, the flower-loving bull who refuses to fight. NFL quarterback Peyton Manning was also in the voice cast.

Zac Efron and Amanda Seyfried joined Gina Rodriguez in the film Scoob!, where she voiced which Mystery Inc. member?

Velma was her part, with Efron as Fred and Seyfried as Daphne. The young version of her character was voiced by Ariana Greenblatt, who later played Rodriguez's daughter in the thriller Awake.

Which NBA superstar voiced the yeti Gwangi alongside Gina Rodriguez's Kolka in the animated film Smallfoot?

LeBron James voiced Gwangi, a large purple yeti. Channing Tatum and Zendaya led the cast as Migo and Meechee.

Gina Rodriguez played paramedic Anya in Annihilation; which actress led the cast as the biologist Lena?

Natalie Portman starred as Lena, who joins an expedition into the Shimmer, a quarantined zone of mutating plants and animals. Rodriguez was the next cast member added after her.

Gina Rodriguez was born and raised in which Midwestern city, in its Belmont Cragin neighborhood?

Chicago's Northwest Side was home, and she went to high school in the city at Saint Ignatius College Prep.

Gina Rodriguez, youngest daughter of Magali and Gino Rodriguez, has family roots in which part of the Caribbean?

Puerto Rico is where both sides of her family come from. In 2017 she sang on the all-star charity single Almost Like Praying, which raised money for the island after Hurricane Maria.

Which actor has twice been paired with Gina Rodriguez, as Joseph in The Star and a spy dad in Spy Kids: Armageddon?

Zachary Levi voiced Joseph to her Mary in the animated nativity film, then played Terrence Tango, her fellow secret agent and the father of their two children.

Jane the Virgin, the series that made Gina Rodriguez a star, was loosely adapted from a telenovela from which country?

Venezuela produced the original, Juana la Virgen, in 2002. Its heroine is a 17-year-old student, while the American remake made Jane 23.

Jane the Virgin, starring Gina Rodriguez as a waitress at the Marbella Hotel, is set in which US city?

Miami is home to Jane, her mother and her grandmother. The hotel where she waits tables has just been taken over by the man who turns out to be the father of her baby.

Which US network aired all five seasons of Jane the Virgin with Gina Rodriguez in the title role?

The CW premiered the show in October 2014. From season three, the title card crossed out the words "the Virgin" and swapped in a different joke for each episode.

Which actor played Rogelio de la Vega, the vain telenovela-star father of Gina Rodriguez's character in Jane the Virgin?

Jaime Camil played Rogelio, a self-involved soap idol who discovers he has a grown daughter. He had been her mother's boyfriend in high school.

Which actor played hotel owner Rafael Solano, the father of Jane's baby, opposite Gina Rodriguez in Jane the Virgin?

Justin Baldoni played Rafael, whom Jane marries at the end of the final season. Rodriguez made her directing debut on a season-four episode centered on the couple.

Gina Rodriguez revealed in an interview that she lives with which condition affecting the thyroid gland?

Hashimoto's disease was diagnosed when she was 19, while she was still studying acting.

Gina Rodriguez performed from the age of seven with the company Fantasia Juvenil in which dance style?

Salsa came first: she danced with the company as a child and only began to act more at 17.

Gina Rodriguez portrayed which painter on stage in the UK world premiere of the play Casa Blue?

Frida Kahlo was a role she took on twice: she also starred in The Last Moments in the Life of Frida Kahlo at the American Stage Theatre.

Gina Rodriguez made her screen debut with a guest role on which long-running police procedural?

Law & Order gave her a first screen credit in 2004, and she came back four years later to play a different character.

On which daytime soap opera did Gina Rodriguez land the recurring role of Beverly in 2011?

The Bold and the Beautiful featured her in 15 episodes across 2011 and 2012, two years before she was cast as Jane Villanueva.

In her breakthrough film Filly Brown, Gina Rodriguez starred as Majo Tenorio, a young woman making her name as what?

A hip-hop artist is what Majo sets out to be. The role won Rodriguez an Imagen Award and a best actor prize on the festival circuit.

Which regional Mexican music star made her only film appearance alongside Gina Rodriguez in the drama Filly Brown?

Jenni Rivera died in a plane crash in December 2012, four months before the film reached cinemas. The cast later accepted an ALMA Award, where she was honored with a moment of silence.

Gina Rodriguez said in 2013 that she had turned down a role in which Lifetime television series?

Devious Maids followed four Latina maids working for wealthy families in Beverly Hills. Less than a year after she told that story, Rodriguez was cast as Jane Villanueva.

Gina Rodriguez earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Tisch School of the Arts, part of which institution?

New York University was where she trained for four years, graduating in 2005. At 16 she had been one of thirteen teenagers accepted into a Columbia theater program.

What sports job did Gino Rodriguez, the father of actress Gina Rodriguez, hold?

Boxing referee was the line of work of Gino Rodriguez. Gina is the youngest daughter of Gino and his wife, Magali.

Gina Rodriguez married which actor and mixed martial arts fighter, whom she met on the Jane the Virgin set?

Joe LoCicero began dating Rodriguez in 2016. They were engaged in August 2018 and married on May 4, 2019, about three months before her series aired its last episode.

Which annual ceremony did Gina Rodriguez co-host in 2015 alongside Ludacris and Josh Peck?

Teen Choice Awards voters had also nominated her that year for her work on Jane the Virgin.

Which basketball Hall of Famer co-hosted the ABC game show Lucky 13 with Gina Rodriguez?

Shaquille O'Neal shared the stage on the quiz, in which a contestant answers 13 true-or-false questions and then bets on how many they got right.

In Someone Great, Gina Rodriguez's music journalist Jenny lands a dream job in San Francisco at which magazine?

Rolling Stone hires Jenny just as her long-term boyfriend ends things, so she and her two best friends go on one last hurrah. Rodriguez also produced the film.

Which actress appeared with Gina Rodriguez in both Annihilation and the Netflix thriller Awake?

Jennifer Jason Leigh was billed just ahead of Rodriguez in Annihilation, then joined her again for Awake, a thriller about a world where nobody can sleep.

In the ABC sitcom Not Dead Yet, Gina Rodriguez's journalist Nell is assigned to write what?

Obituaries are her beat when she returns to her old paper, the SoCal Independent, and the twist is that Nell can see ghosts. The sitcom ran for two seasons.

Which streaming service made Diary of a Future President, featuring Gina Rodriguez as the grown-up Elena?

Disney+ made the comedy-drama about a 13-year-old Cuban American girl who dreams of the White House. Rodriguez appears in flash-forwards as Elena in office, and directed two episodes.

What is the name of Gina Rodriguez's production company, the banner behind Diary of a Future President?

I Can & I Will Productions is her own company, through which she has worked on projects centered on the Latino community for two broadcast networks.

In Miss Bala, Gina Rodriguez's character Gloria is pulled into a cartel war in which Mexican border city?

Tijuana is where Gloria is visiting her best friend when gunmen storm a nightclub. The film remakes a 2011 Mexican film of the same name.

Which writer-director cast Gina Rodriguez as Melanie, a stranger who joins a family of petty crooks, in Kajillionaire?

Miranda July wrote and directed the film, which premiered at Sundance in January 2020. Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger and Richard Jenkins play the family.

Which actor starred as technician Mike Williams opposite Gina Rodriguez in the oil-rig disaster film Deepwater Horizon?

Mark Wahlberg led the cast, while Rodriguez played Andrea Fleytas, who was on the bridge during the blowout and tried to reach the Coast Guard. The two later shared a voice cast in Scoob!

Gina Rodriguez voices Gina Alvarez, a girl on Missy and Jessi's soccer team, in which Netflix animated comedy?

Big Mouth brought her in as a recurring voice from its second season. Co-creator Nick Kroll voices her character's grandmother.

Gina Rodriguez guest-starred as Alicia, a cab driver set up with Rosa Diaz, in which sitcom's wedding episode?

Brooklyn Nine-Nine cast her in Jake & Amy, its fifth-season finale, in which Terry tries to play matchmaker during a ride in her cab.

Gina Rodriguez voices which member of Batman's rogues' gallery in the children's animated series Batwheels?

Catwoman has a playful cat car named Kitty in the show, whose heroes are the Batmobile and the other Bat-Family vehicles brought to life.

Which NFL tight end did Gina Rodriguez face in a rap battle on the TBS series Drop the Mic?

Rob Gronkowski took her on in the show's second episode. The series grew out of a recurring segment on the late-night program The Late Late Show.