From a Hispanic background, Selena Gomez (July 22, 1992) was mostly raised by
her mother - former actress Amanda Teefey - and developed her interest in the
stage at a young age. She got her first break when she was ten years old in the
2002 TV series Barney & Friends and made her film debut a year later in the
movie Spy Kids 3-D - Game Over. She went on to play Mikayla in the Disney
Channel series Hannah Montana and then took the lead role of Alex Russo in
Wizards of Waverly Place. Her first record was the theme song from the series,
"Everything Is Not What It Seems." Dating fell...