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Jenna Ortega
Jenna Ortega worked as a child actor in television, including Jane the Virgin and Stuck in the Middle, before taking roles in You and The Fallout.
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Career & style
Jenna Ortega worked as a child actor in television, including Jane the Virgin and Stuck in the Middle, before taking roles in You and The Fallout. Scream, X and Wednesday subsequently made horror a prominent part of her screen career. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice extended that connection to another distinctive fictional world in 2024.
Her public styling offers a case study in the conversation between a role and an actor’s appearance. Work with stylist Enrique Melendez developed from earlier colorful looks toward darker clothing and stronger makeup, a shift widely discussed around Wednesday. The useful detail is not simply the presence of black: shape, texture and the balance between severity and decoration matter. Character costume, press-tour styling and everyday dress remain different kinds of evidence, even when they share a visual vocabulary.
In photographs
Chris Roth · Source · CC BY-SA 2.0