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Raisa in 2012, photo by kathclick /Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Francia Raisa Almendárez
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: July 26, 1988
Ethnicity: * father – Honduran * mother – Mexican
Francia Raisa is an American actress. Her roles include the shows The Secret Life of the American Teenager , Hit the Floor , Dear White People , Grown-ish , How I Met Your Father , and Lopez vs. Lopez ; the films Bring It On: All or Nothing , Fired Up! , Bulletface , and Chastity Bites ; the made-for-tv movies Shredderman Rules , The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream , The Cutting Edge: Fire and Ice , Company Town , Christmas Bounty , A Snow Globe Christmas , The Wrong Car , Tiny House of Terror , Once Upon a Date , and Life-Size 2 ; and the music video for “Man.”
Her father, Renán Almendárez Coello, or “El Cucuy De La Mañana,” is a Honduran-born radio personality. Her mother, Virginia Pelayo, is of Mexican descent. When asked about growing up as a Latina in Los Angeles, she stated :
It wasn’t till I got to high school that I saw it have any affect on my life. The Hispanics hung-out with the Hispanics, The Asians hung-out with the Asians, everyone had their little cliques. That opened my eyes.
It wasn’t till I got to high school that I saw it have any affect on my life. The Hispanics hung-out with the Hispanics, The Asians hung-out with the Asians, everyone had their little cliques. That opened my eyes.