Francia Raisa

 Francia Raisa Almendarez, born July 26, 1988 is an American actress. Raisa is well-known for her performances in Bring It On: All or Nothing, The Secret Life of the American Teenager Grown-ish, and How I Met Your Father.Raisa was born in Los Angeles, California to her Mexican mother, Virginia Almendarez (nee Pelayo), and Renan Almendarez Coello, an Honduran-born radio host and a native of Los Angeles. Her father started using "El Cucuy", a Latin radio personality, shortly after her birth. Raisa was a cheerleader at Bishop Alemany High School in Mission Hills, California. She started acting in her senior year in high school, modeling for commercials and modeling in ads for print. She was also a guest on in American Family: Journey of Dreams and Over There. Raisa was in Lil Romo's music videos "My Girlfriend" and "So Big" in 2004. About a month into her senior year, she was offered one of her first lead roles, acting alongside Hayden Panettiere in Bring It On: All or Nothing. She co-starred in the Nickelodeon film Shredderman Rules