From the only daughter in a creepy, kooky family to a scream queen, here are six roles we love from Jenna Ortega.
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00:00 "Our first order of business is to escape this teenage purgatory.
00:04 Of course I have a plan.
00:07 And it begins now."
00:11 From the only daughter in a creepy, kooky family to a scream queen, here are six roles
00:15 we love from Jenna Ortega.
00:19 Ortega starred in the Disney Channel series Stuck in the Middle from 2016 to 2018.
00:24 The actress played Harley Diaz, the middle child in a family of seven children.
00:29 "So it's hand-me-down city.
00:30 I've gotten good at working with what I've got.
00:31 I'm not bragging.
00:32 Being creative isn't a choice.
00:33 It's survival."
00:39 Season two of the series You, which premiered in 2019, saw Ortega play Ellie, a mouthy teenage
00:45 girl who lives with her older sister in the same Los Angeles apartment building as the
00:49 show's main character, Joe Goldberg.
00:51 The Hollywood Reporter's Review called Ortega a standout performer in the show's second
00:56 season.
00:57 "It's not that deep.
00:58 If it's interesting, take a pic.
00:59 Don't filter.
01:00 Don't hashtag.
01:01 Hashtags are thirsty.
01:04 That's literally the handbook to being dope in a sea of basic losers."
01:07 The 2021 drama The Fallout saw Ortega take on the role of a high school student coping
01:12 with surviving a school shooting.
01:14 According to THR's review, "Ortega's beautifully nuanced turn understands the nothing-to-look-at-here
01:20 facade and the chinks in the armor of her character."
01:34 Ortega stepped into the role of Tara Carpenter in 2022's Scream and came face-to-face with
01:39 yet another ghost face, 25 years after the original Woodsboro murders of the first Scream
01:44 film.
01:51 She reprised the part in 2023's Scream 6.
02:00 The actress played Lorraine in 2022's X, a film about a group of young people who set
02:05 out to conquer the world of low-budget adult films and instead find themselves fighting
02:10 for their lives.
02:16 The Netflix series Wednesday premiered in 2022, with Ortega starring as the title character
02:21 and beloved member of the Addams Family.
02:23 The show quickly became a hit and broke the streamer's record for the biggest opening
02:27 week for an English-language series.
02:29 According to THR's review, "Ortega's Wednesday Addams is the perfectly creepy and kooky accumulation
02:35 of eight episodes of deadpan line readings, precise comic physicality, and expressive
02:40 eye rolls."
02:47 For much more on Jenna Ortega's career, go to THR.com.
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