# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/selenis-leyva
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:18:59.694Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/selenis-leyva"
name: "Selenis Leyva"
slug: "selenis-leyva"
description: "Selenis Leyva is an American actress. She began her career appearing in Off-Broadway productions and had supporting roles on television, before her breakthrough role as Gloria Mendoza in the Netflix comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black (2013–19). She later starred in the Disney+ comedy-drama series, Diary of a Future President (2020–21), and the NBC sitcom Lopez vs Lopez (2022–25). Leyva also appeared in films Custody (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Breaking (2022) and Creed III (2023)."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Selenis_Leyva.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1972-05-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.2
  momentum:             0.8433272279894313
  historical:           16.95748
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "selenis_leyva"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/selenisleyvaofficial/"
    handle:    "selenisleyvaofficial"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/selenisleyvaofficial"
    handle:    "selenisleyvaofficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0508139/"
    handle:    "nm0508139"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenis_Leyva"
    title: "Selenis Leyva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "셀레니스 레이바"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenis_Leyva"
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    title: "Selenis Leyva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лейва, Селенис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Selenis Leyva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "เซเลนิส เลย์วา"
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    title: "Selenis Leyva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/162503"
    title: "Selenis Leyva"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump