Francia Raisa

 Francia Raisa almendarez, born July 26, 1988 was an American actor. Raisa is well-known for her role in Bring It On: All or Nothing, The Secret Life of the American Teenager Growing Up, How I got to know you. FatherRaisa was born and was raised in Los Angeles, California, to a Mexican mother, Virginia Almendarez (nee Pelayo) and Renan Almendarez Coello. Coello is who was a radio personality from Honduras. After a few years, Raisa was born, her father started using his new Latin radio personality, "El Cucuy".Raisa attended Bishop Alemany High School in Mission Hills, California, where she was an athletic cheerleader.Raisa began taking acting jobs during her junior year of high school, and began modeling for ads in print and being featured in commercials. She was a guest on sitcoms American Family: Journey of Dreams and Over There. Raisa played Tamy in Lil' Romeo's music clip "My Girlfriend" as Tamy in 2004 and in Iyaz's music video "So Big". A month into her senior years, she was cast in one of her first lead roles. She was a co-star with Hayden Panettiere in Bring It On: Everything or Nothing. She co-starred in the Nickelodeon film Shredderman Rules, where she played Isabel and also in The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream and The Cutting Edge: Fire and Ice as Alexandra Delgado. From the beginning of July 2008 to the finale of the series she was the lead character as Adrian Lee on ABC Family's successful drama The Secret Life of the American Teenager.