Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television producer. After appearing on the children's series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), she received wider recognition for her portrayal of Alex Russo on the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place, which aired from 2007 until 2012.
Gomez also starred in the films Another Cinderella Story (2008), Princess Protection Program (2009), Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (2009), Ramona and Beezus (2010), and Monte Carlo (2011). Thereafter, she focused on more mature roles in Spring Breakers (2012), Getaway (2013), The Fundamentals of Caring (2016), and The Dead Don't Die (2019). She voices the character of Mavis in the Hotel Transylvania film franchise, and serves as an executive producer of the Netflix television drama series 13 Reasons Why (2017–present) and the Netflix documentary series Living Undocumented (2019).
Mariska Hargitay suffered ‘secondary trauma’ from ‘Law & Order: SVU’ storylines
nypost.comSelena Gomez published Monday in Interview magazine. Hargitay, who has been married to “Blue Bloods” actor Peter Hermann since 2004, added, “My husband Peter is always like, anytime I go anywhere, my first question is, ‘What’s the crime rate here?’ So it’s on the brain.”She continued, “There’s been times when I didn’t know how to protect myself, and I think I was definitely a victim of secondary trauma from being inundated with these stories and knowing that they were true.
Those were the parts that I didn’t know how to metabolize, just because of the sheer volume of it.”On the show, Benson is constantly solving heinous sex crimes, and in real life, that motivated Hargitay to create the Joyful Heart Foundation in 2004.
The foundation’s mission is “to transform society’s response to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse, support survivors’ healing, and end this violence forever.”To date, it has aided in solving thousands of sex crimes.
The actress said that with her foundation, “I would feel like, well, at least I’m doing something about it.”Hargitay told the “Only Murders in the Building” actress that when she started on the show, “I was not the boss and I had no power.”“I was also overwhelmed and scared and kind of looked up to everybody.
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