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Rachel Zegler
Rachel Anne Zegler (/ˈzɛɡlər/ ⓘ ZEG-lər; born May 3, 2001) is an American actress and singer. She gained wide recognition for her performance as María in Steven Spielberg's film adaptation West Side Story (2021), winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
She has since portrayed Anthea in the superhero action film Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023), Lucy Gray Baird in the teen dystopian drama The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), and the titular character in the musical fantasy Snow White (2025), which generated significant controversy and was considered to be a box-office bomb. On stage, she made her Broadway debut playing Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (2024), and her West End debut as the titular character in the musical Evita (2025).
Rachel Anne Zegler was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, on May 3, 2001, to Gina and Craig Zegler. She was named after the fictional character Rachel Green from the TV series Friends. She has an older sister. Her mother is of Colombian descent; her maternal grandmother immigrated from Barranquilla to the United States in the 1960s. Her father is of Polish descent.
Zegler grew up in Clifton, New Jersey. She says she faced racial discrimination on social media during her childhood due to her mixed ethnicity. Zegler became a fan of the theater after seeing her first Broadway show, Beauty and the Beast, at age four. Her first acting role came when she was 12, when she played Shprintze in a play of Fiddler on the Roof. She then decided she wanted to be an actress, and began taking voice and acting lessons.
Zegler attended Immaculate Conception High School, where she starred in several musicals, playing Belle in Beauty and the Beast (2016), Ariel in The Little Mermaid (2017), Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street (2018), and Princess Fiona in Shrek the Musical (2019). For all four performances, she received Metropolitan High School Theater Award nominations for the Actress in a Leading Role category. Her other roles have included Serena in Legally Blonde, Cosette in Les Misérables, and Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie. She graduated on June 2, 2019, as salutatorian. Her YouTube channel was active from July 2015 to August 2023 and also garnered media coverage.
In January 2018, director Steven Spielberg posted an open casting call via Twitter for a new film adaptation of West Side Story. Zegler, then 16 years old, responded with videos of herself singing "Tonight" and "I Feel Pretty"; she had performed the role of Maria at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in 2017. She was selected from more than 30,000 applicants for the role, marking her film debut. The film was released in December 2021, and earned acclaim from critics and audiences.
For her performance, Zegler received a Critics' Choice Movie Award nomination for Best Young Performer and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, She was the first actress of Colombian descent to win in that category and, at age 20, the youngest.
Zegler starred as Anthea in the superhero film Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023). The film received mixed reviews and was a box-office failure, grossing $134.1 million worldwide against a production budget of $110–125 million. She played protagonist Lucy Gray Baird in the 2023 film adaptation of the Hunger Games prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. The film received mixed to positive reception. David Ehrlich of IndieWire praised Zegler, writing, "[She] is absolutely captivating in a Wild Rose-coded performance that's equal part Southern pluck and wide-eyed terror ... it is a marvel of multiplex acting. ... Zegler knows how to play nuance big enough for the back of the room to read it all over her face". The film grossed $349 million worldwide against a production budget of $100 million.
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Rachel Zegler
Rachel Anne Zegler (/ˈzɛɡlər/ ⓘ ZEG-lər; born May 3, 2001) is an American actress and singer. She gained wide recognition for her performance as María in Steven Spielberg's film adaptation West Side Story (2021), winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
She has since portrayed Anthea in the superhero action film Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023), Lucy Gray Baird in the teen dystopian drama The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), and the titular character in the musical fantasy Snow White (2025), which generated significant controversy and was considered to be a box-office bomb. On stage, she made her Broadway debut playing Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (2024), and her West End debut as the titular character in the musical Evita (2025).
Rachel Anne Zegler was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, on May 3, 2001, to Gina and Craig Zegler. She was named after the fictional character Rachel Green from the TV series Friends. She has an older sister. Her mother is of Colombian descent; her maternal grandmother immigrated from Barranquilla to the United States in the 1960s. Her father is of Polish descent.
Zegler grew up in Clifton, New Jersey. She says she faced racial discrimination on social media during her childhood due to her mixed ethnicity. Zegler became a fan of the theater after seeing her first Broadway show, Beauty and the Beast, at age four. Her first acting role came when she was 12, when she played Shprintze in a play of Fiddler on the Roof. She then decided she wanted to be an actress, and began taking voice and acting lessons.
Zegler attended Immaculate Conception High School, where she starred in several musicals, playing Belle in Beauty and the Beast (2016), Ariel in The Little Mermaid (2017), Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street (2018), and Princess Fiona in Shrek the Musical (2019). For all four performances, she received Metropolitan High School Theater Award nominations for the Actress in a Leading Role category. Her other roles have included Serena in Legally Blonde, Cosette in Les Misérables, and Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie. She graduated on June 2, 2019, as salutatorian. Her YouTube channel was active from July 2015 to August 2023 and also garnered media coverage.
In January 2018, director Steven Spielberg posted an open casting call via Twitter for a new film adaptation of West Side Story. Zegler, then 16 years old, responded with videos of herself singing "Tonight" and "I Feel Pretty"; she had performed the role of Maria at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in 2017. She was selected from more than 30,000 applicants for the role, marking her film debut. The film was released in December 2021, and earned acclaim from critics and audiences.
For her performance, Zegler received a Critics' Choice Movie Award nomination for Best Young Performer and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, She was the first actress of Colombian descent to win in that category and, at age 20, the youngest.
Zegler starred as Anthea in the superhero film Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023). The film received mixed reviews and was a box-office failure, grossing $134.1 million worldwide against a production budget of $110–125 million. She played protagonist Lucy Gray Baird in the 2023 film adaptation of the Hunger Games prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. The film received mixed to positive reception. David Ehrlich of IndieWire praised Zegler, writing, "[She] is absolutely captivating in a Wild Rose-coded performance that's equal part Southern pluck and wide-eyed terror ... it is a marvel of multiplex acting. ... Zegler knows how to play nuance big enough for the back of the room to read it all over her face". The film grossed $349 million worldwide against a production budget of $100 million.
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