Camila Mendes is a Brazilian-American actress who fell in love with the audience for her role in the teenage series Riverdale. How did the girl's movie career begin? How did her childhood and youth go? What is Camila doing now and what projects is she planning in the future? Read about everything in our article.
Camila Mendes: biography
Camila is a well-known actress starring in one of the most popular contemporary TV shows for teens, Riverdale. Camila Mendes birthday is on June 29, 1994, at the moment the actress is 24 years old. The girl's height is 157 centimeters, and her weight is 54 kilograms.
Childhood and youth
Camila was born in the small town of Charlottesville, USA.
After the birth of Camila, the family of the future actress moved as many as 16 times! First, the move was due to the promotion of Camila’s father, and then the girl’s parents divorced, and Camila’s mother, Giselle, with two daughters in her arms for a long time was looking for a city where a small family could find a new home. When Camille was ten, they spent about a year in their homeland of Giselle - in Brazil. After that, the family finally stopped in Florida, where the future actress and spent the remaining childhood.
She studied at a private boarding school in the town of Plantation. In the spring of 2016, she graduated from the famous Tish School of Art at New York University, which also studied Woody Allen, Whoopi Goldberg, Anne Hathaway and other stars.
Even when Camila was a student at the Tish School, the girl was enrolled in one of the most prestigious theater schools in New York.
Personal life
The personal life of Camila Mendes is monitored by millions of fans, carefully monitoring the movements of the girl and looking for answers to her questions in the photos and posts of the actress.
It is known that in 2013, Mendes began an affair with a professional photographer and director Ian Wallace. In the Instagram of the girl, touching posts often appeared that told about the feelings of the actress, but after the separation of Ian Wallace and Camila Mendes in December 2017, the actress decided to remove or hide all posts associated with her ex-lover.
As often happens, fans of the series, in love with the Veronica / Archie couple, and also inspired by the fact that Lily Reinhart and Cole Sprouse, whose characters are together in the story, meet in real life, under each joint photo of KJ Apy and Camila write about that young people are dating. However, despite the suppositions of the fans, there is no information about the relationship of the actors in life.
Not so long ago, a photo appeared on Camila’s Instagram page, in which the girl hugs Charles Melton, an actor playing a minor character in Riverdale, and the caption is “mine”. This allowed fans of the actress to build new theories, but most agreed that young people are really together.
A question that interests many girl fans: are Camila Mendes and Sean Mendes relatives? Unfortunately or fortunately, a talented singer and actress are connected only by a common surname. Sean is in a relationship with Camila, but on the other, Camila Cabello.
Film career
The actress is still quite young, so in the film career of Camila Mendes films, TV shows or other projects so far are few.
The debut work for Mendes was the role in the advertising of IKEA, where the girl said only a few phrases.
The next role for the girl was a real breakthrough. Despite the fact that she is only the second in a row for the entire career of Camila, she brought the young actress real popularity. Of course, we are talking about the role of Veronica Lodge in the teenage drama series Revirdale. It was shot on the notorious “Archie” comics and won the love of its target teenage audience in record time. For the role in this series, the actress was approved in 2016.
It is noteworthy that the second role of the girl as a whole and the first in the art project became the main one. Veronica Lodge, the heroine played by Camila Mendes, is the central character in this story and appears in every episode.
In the first season of the popular teenage series about the small town of Riverdale, which hides a lot of secrets and mysteries, the plot revolves around one of the main characters, Cheryl Blossom, played by American actress Madeline Petsh. Cheryl's twin brother was killed under mysterious circumstances, and Veronica's friends Betty Cooper and Jughead Jones are investigating this shocking, usually calm and peaceful city.
The second season begins when an unknown masked man shoots a cafe, which was a favorite place in the city for teenagers, to shoot at the dad of one of the main characters, Archie Enrius. Archie's dad survives, but a series of murders are taking place in Riverdale and the neighboring city, which friends take to investigate.
In addition to filming in Riverdale, Camila’s on-camera experience includes auditioning for the role of Jennifer Lopez’s daughter in the series Shades of Blue. Also in the filmography of the actress is the comedy Late Night with Seth Myers, in which Mendes played herself.
In addition, a clip for the song The Chainsmokers - Side Effects ft. Emily Warren, in the filming of which was attended by Camila, beloved by many teenagers.
Camila now
Camila is not going to stop there. She continues to actively star in various projects. He does not refuse new offers.
At the moment, the third season of Riverdale has just begun to appear, which will definitely bring the actress a new wave of popularity and many invitations to roles in other films or series.
This year, Camila Mendes worked on the melodramatic comedy "New Romance". It tells about a girl who is constantly in trouble.
In addition to this work, Camila took part in the filming of the comedy The Stand-In, which tells about a guy named Brooks developing a non-standard dating application where he attracts young girls in completely different ways to save money for college.
Total
Since the girl is not going to end her film career, she can only hope for the further growth of the actress's popularity and the expansion of her professional capabilities. Many Camila fans would like to see the girl in other images. We hope that soon the desire of Mendes fans will come true!