Selena Gomez

Selena Marie Gomez ( sə-LEE-nə GOH-mez; born July 22, 1992) is an American singer, actress, producer, and businesswoman. She began her career as a child actress, starring on the children's television series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), and rose to prominence as a teen idol, leading as Alex Russo on the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place (2007–2012). As a singer, she signed with Hollywood Records in 2008 and formed the pop rock band Selena Gomez & the Scene. The band released three studio albums, all of which have been certified gold or higher by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

As a solo musician, Gomez released three studio albums that debuted atop the US Billboard 200. Her EDM-inspired debut record, Stars Dance (2013), yielded the international top-ten single "Come & Get It". Desiring more artistic freedom, she moved to Interscope Records and released the electropop album Revival (2015), supported by the top-ten singles "Good for You", "Same Old Love", and "Hands to Myself". Its follow-up, the dance-pop-influenced Rare (2020), contained her first U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Lose You to Love Me". She forayed into Spanish-language music with the EP Revelación (2021), which earned her nominations at the Grammys and Latin Grammy Awards. She has released various collaborative singles throughout her career, including "We Don't Talk Anymore", "It Ain't Me", "Wolves", "Taki Taki", and "Calm Down (Remix)", the last of which is the most commercially successful Afrobeats song of all time.

Gomez is an established actress and television personality. Her films include Another Cinderella Story (2008), Monte Carlo (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), The Fundamentals of Caring (2016), The Dead Don't Die (2019), and Emilia Pérez (2024). She voiced Mavis in the Hotel Transylvania film franchise (2012–2022). She has produced series such as 13 Reasons Why (2017–2020), Living Undocumented (2019) and Selena + Chef (2020–2023), and has played a lead role in Only Murders in the Building since 2021, for which she earned nominations at the Golden Globe and Emmy Awards. Her accolades include an AFI Award, American Music Award, a Billboard Music Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, two MTV Video Music Awards, and 16 Guinness World Records.

As a philanthropist, Gomez has worked with charitable organizations. She advocates for mental health, and gender, racial, and LGBT equality, and has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2009. She founded the cosmetic company Rare Beauty in 2020, valued at $2 billion in 2024, and the mental-health non-profit Rare Impact Fund. She has appeared in listicles such as the Time 100 (2020) and Forbes 30 Under 30 (2016 and 2020), was named Woman of the Year (2017) and one of the most successful artists of the 2010s decade by Billboard, and was made a member of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Government of France. As of 2024, she has an estimated net worth of $1.3 billion, being one of the wealthiest musicians, and is the most-followed woman on Instagram.