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). Gomez rose to prominence and emerged as a teen idol, for her leading role as Alex Russo on the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place (2007–2012). As a recording artist, she signed with Hollywood Records in 2008 and formed the pop rock band Selena Gomez & the Scene. With three studio albums and seven singles, each of the band's releases have received gold certifications or higher by the RIAA.
Further pursuing a career as a soloist, Gomez found continued success with her solo studio albums, as each debuted atop the US Billboard 200. Her EDM-inspired debut, Stars Dance (2013) yielded the international top-ten single "Come & Get It". Desiring more artistic control, Gomez signed with Interscope Records to release the electropop set Revival (2015), supported by the top-ten singles "Good for You", "Same Old Love", and "Hands to Myself". Its follow-up, Rare (2020), topped the charts in various countries, and was led by Gomez's first US 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 Grammy and Latin Grammy Award nominations. Gomez has also released various collaborative singles, including "We Don't Talk Anymore", "It Ain't Me", "Wolves", "Taki Taki", and "Calm Down (Remix)"; the latter became the most commercially successful afrobeats song of all time and the best-selling collaboration of 2023 globally.
Gomez has starred in many films, including 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 also voiced Mavis in the Hotel Transylvania film franchise (2012–2022). On television, Gomez produced the teen drama series 13 Reasons Why (2017–2020), the documentary series Living Undocumented (2019), the cooking show Selena + Chef (2020–2023), and the mystery comedy series Only Murders in the Building (2021–present), in which she plays a lead role. Gomez has won numerous accolades, including 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 also received nominations for seven Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards.
Outside of music and acting, Gomez has worked with various charitable organizations, and advocates for mental health, and gender, racial, and LGBT equality; she has been a UNICEF goodwill ambassador since 2009. She launched the cosmetics company Rare Beauty in 2020, which was valued at $2 billion in 2024, and founded the Rare Impact Fund, a non-profit committed to raising $100 million this decade for mental health awareness. Gomez has been featured in listicles such as the Time 100 (2020) and Forbes 30 Under 30 (2016 and 2020), and was named the Billboard Woman of the Year in 2017. Billboard ranked her as one of the most successful artists of the 2010s decade. With over 426 million followers, she is the most-followed woman on Instagram, as of 2024.
