You may know her as Jane Villanueva...
But I've never had sex!
...or perhaps as heartbroken music journalist,
Jenny.
...we, we were together for like nine years, right?
Like... and now we're not.
Or the one and only Carmen Sandiego...
Chase, huh? Let's see what's in a name.
Whether it's TV or film, live action or animation,
Gina Rodriguez has done it.
And now she's starring
in Netflix's sleepless thriller, Awake.
Those aren't satellites, Noah.
So, in honour of Awake's release,
we thought you might want to brush up on her career
and take a look
at Gina Rodriguez's Road to Netflix.
Gina spent the early years of her career
in small roles on various American TV shows
and her debut came in a guest role on a 2004 episode of Law & Order.
By 2010,
she was popping up on more and more American TV shows.
Like this small role
in the fourth season of Lifetime's Army Wives.
Don't get your panties in a bunch, Irma,
got to be something we could do.
And this role on ABC Family sitcom remake of 90s classic,
10 Things I Hate About You,
as Danica, a student super keen on school spirit.
Who wants a balloon filled with this super cool helium?
The biggest TV role in this early part of Gina's career
came on long-running soap The Bold and the Beautiful,
the most watched soap in the world.
She had a recurring role as Beverly,
an ambitious intern at the Forrester fashion house.
You don't trust me. You don't care about me.
You're just doing this to make yourself feel better,
not me!
Gina's breakout film came in 2012's Filly Brown,
an independent film about a young Hip-Hop artist
who faces a difficult choice between selling out for money
or staying true to herself and her music.
Dreams don't pay the bills, Eddie.
It was nominated for the grand jury prize
at that year's Sundance Festival,
which put its praise in Gina's heartfelt performance.
2013's Sleeping with the Fishes,
in which she starred alongside Priscilla Lopez and Ana Ortiz,
saw her play a heartbroken woman
dealing with the death of her cheating husband
and the pressures of her family.
Why is it that you can bury your past,
but I can't bury mine?
On to 2014
and the role that turned Gina into a household name.
You're pregnant.
That's...
-I'm sorry, but she's just not-- -No, I'm not pregnant.
The premise of a virgin becoming artificially inseminated
sounds a little outlandish,
but Jane the Virgin's warm and funny tribute
to classic telly novellas,
won the hearts of audiences globally.
What?
According to executive producer Jennie Snyder Urman,
Gina made a real impression at the casting
as one of the first few to read for the role
and instantly embodied the Jane Villanueva they wanted.
I'm little obsessed with planning, I like to think ahead.
Bedding, paint colours, layette...
Now you're just making up words.
She went on to win multiple awards for her performance,
including a Golden Globe.
I just didn't want this to take over my life
-and change everything. -I know, baby.
-But it's going to. -I know. I know.
This is not a stupid milkshake.
It's a baby!
And if you want to relive Jane's journey,
all seasons are streaming on Netflix.
With Jane the Virgin raising her profile,
it was no surprise to see Gina starring alongside actors
like Mark Wahlberg and Dylan O'Brien
in Deepwater Horizon.
The disaster film
was based on the real-life explosion
and oil spill.
Gina played Andrea Fleytas,
a young crew member aboard the rig when the disaster happened.
Following this, Gina dipped her toe
into the world of voicing animated films.
From playing Mary, the mother of Jesus, in The Star,
to a purple hedgehog named Una in Ferdinand
and a yeti in 2018's Small Foot.
We don't know exactly how far down it is,
it's also all the rope we have.
And it was voice acting that first brought Gina to Netflix
and everyone's favourite gross-out comedy about puberty,
Big Mouth.
Her character, also named Gina, draws attention
because she's the first to get boobs in her school year.
Which is a pretty standard storyline for Big Mouth,
if you've yet to watch it.
Yeah. Although, it is kind of weird
'cause he never really talked to me before.
A world away from cartoon puberty
is the 2018 Netflix science-fiction thriller,
Annihilation.
Gina stars alongside
Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson
in a horrifying tale of an all-female expedition
to mysterious quarantine zone known only as "the shimmer",
where alien presence
is causing plants and animals to mutate.
Gina's character, Anya,
is a paramedic who joins the scientific mission
to discover what is happening inside the shimmer.
We lost one of our own,
we have evidence that the previous team went nuts
and chopped each other up.
I, I really don't know how much more right she has than me.
If you're a fan of the nine-nine,
we're sure you didn't miss this cameo.
Hi. I'm here to pick up Rosa. Are you the one I'm looking for?
Gina popped up in season five of the beloved police comedy series
as a love interest for the bad-ass Rosa Diaz.
I mean, he was wearing some dumb hat.
I'm sorry, I know that's not helpful.
-All hats are dumb. -All hats are dumb.
In 2019, she collaborated with Twilight director,
Catherine Hardwicke,
and took on the leading role in Miss Bala,
an action thriller about a make-up artist
who ends up on a mission to take down a Mexican drug cartel
after they kidnap her best friend. As you do.
There's no one here to get me.
I don't see anyone. There's no SWAT van.
Sorry, Gloria, you're on your own.
That same year, she was back on Netflix
with Someone Great,
a rom-com inspired by Taylor Swift's "1989"
about heartbreak, growing up,
and one last party with your best mates
before moving across the country for the job of your dreams.
♪ Yeah, I got boy problems, that's the human in me ♪
♪ Bling bling, then I solve 'em, that's the goddess in me ♪
♪ You coulda had a bad bitch, non-committal ♪
♪ Help you with your career just a little... ♪
Fun fact:
Gina not only played the lead, Jenny, in this film,
she was also one of the producers.
You don't get much more iconic than this next role.
I order you to stop!
You didn't say for how long.
Netflix's Carmen Sandiego
is a modern retelling of the globetrotting thief
from the 80s video game,
popular in classrooms across the world.
While in the game,
Sandiego would always be disappearing around a corner
before you could catch her,
this series gives us a look at things
from her perspective, with Gina in the lead role.
On to 2020,
and Gina went from international thief
to leader of the free world in Diary of a Future President.
The show follows the life of Elena,
a 12 year old with ambitions of high office.
Gina has a dual role on this Disney series
as executive producer
and then flashforwards as the adult presidential version
of the lead character.
It's a day-by-day account of how I got here.
That same year, she appeared in Kajilllionaire,
alongside Evan Rachel Wood, as Melanie,
a young woman who happily gets involved
in a con artist family's scheming ways.
You're addicted to them.
They're my parents.
In what sense?
And that bring us to this year and the Netflix thriller, Awake.
Fifteen hours ago something happened.
We don't know what caused it,
or why it occurred.
But what we do know
is that none of us can sleep.
That's the nightmarish situation Gina's character,
a troubled ex-soldier named Jill, finds herself in.
It's a race against time
to find out what has caused the world's mass insomnia
and could her daughter be the key?
I can sleep.
To find out,
well, you have to make sure you catch Awake on Netflix.
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