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    Naya RiveraAmerican actress and singer
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    • Naya Marie Rivera was an American actress, singer, and model. Recognized for her work on the popular musical comedy-drama series Glee, in which she starred from 2009 to 2015, she received various awards, including a Screen Actors Guild Award and nominations for two Grammy Awards. She began her career as a child actress and model, first appeari… See more

    BornNaya Marie Rivera · January 12, 1987 · Valencia, California, U.S.
    DiedJuly 8, 2020 (aged 33) · Lake Piru, California, U.S.
    SpouseRyan Dorsey · (m. 2014; div. 2018)
    Children1
    Early life

    Naya Marie Rivera was born in Valencia, California, on January 12, 1987. She was raised in Valencia and lived in or around Los Angeles for most of her life. She was of African-American, German, and Puerto Rican desc… See more

    Career

    Rivera appeared in commercials for Kmart as a baby, but her first significant acting job was at the age of four when she appeared as Hillary Winston on the CBS sitcom The Royal Family in 1991. As she could not read the scripts, … See more

    Public image

    During her career, Rivera appeared on the covers of several magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Maxim, Rolling Stone, FHM, Complex, Glow, Prestige, The Hollywood Reporter, Cosmo for Latinas, Latina, Fit Pregnancy … See more

    Representation and legacy

    With her diverse acting roles, Rivera is seen as having been one of the earliest, most prominent, and most profound examples of both Afro-Latino representation and queer Latinx (as Santana in Glee) representat… See more

    Personal life

    Rivera dated actor Tahj Mowry between 2000 and 2004, after having first met shooting a commercial when Rivera was four and later working together on Smart Guy in the 1990s. She remained close with Tahj and hi… See more

    Disappearance and death

    On July 8, 2020, Rivera was declared a missing person after her four-year-old son, Josey, was found alone in a boat that Rivera had rented at Lake Piru, a reservoir in the Los Padres National Forest in Ventura County, Ca… See more

    Discography

    In 2012, Rivera was featured on a single by the music duo 2Cellos, performing a cover of the Muse song "Supermassive Black Hole". The single, from the album In2ition, spent two weeks on the charts, reaching number 16 … See more

     
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