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Selena Marie Gomez 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 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, Gomez 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 Gomez's first US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Lose You to Love Me". Gomez forayed into Spanish-language music with the EP Revelación (2021), which earned her a Grammy and a Latin Grammy Award nomination. 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), Ramona and Beezus (2010), Monte Carlo (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), The Fundamentals of Caring (2016), The Dead Don't Die (2019), A Rainy Day in New York (2019), and Emilia Pérez (2024). She voiced Mavis in the Hotel Transylvania film franchise (2012–2022). Gomez has produced series such as 13 Reasons Why (2017–2020), Living Undocumented (2019), and Selena + Chef (2020–2023), and stars in a lead role in Only Murders in the Building (2021–present). Her accolades include a Cannes Film Festival Award, an American Music Award, a Billboard Music Award, two MTV Video Music Awards, and 16 Guinness World Records. She has been nominated for seven Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. 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. Gomez has appeared in listicles such as the Time 100 (2020) and Forbes 30 Under 30, and was named the Billboard Woman of the Year (2017). Billboard ranked her as one of the most successful artists of the 2010s decade. As of 2024, Gomez has an estimated net worth of $1.3 billion and is the most-followed woman on Instagram.