Adriana Arjonathe daughter of the Guatemalan singer-songwriter, Ricardo Arjona, continues to succeed in international productions thanks to his great acting talent. This week, we saw her in the skin of a new character in ‘Andor’, the latest prequel to the universe of ‘Star Wars’ centered on the main character diego moon‘Cassian Andor’, who was introduced as the leader of the Rebel Alliance in ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’.
According to an account by Adria herself for hollywoodreporterat some point during the Covid-19 pandemic, he had to fly to London to audition with the Mexican actor, and after only 10 minutes of reading the scriptseries creator Tony Gilroy welcomed him to the cast.
According to Gilroy, the chemistry he had with Diego Luna was so evident that he did not hesitate to choose her immediately, so now we will see Adria playing ‘Bix Caleen’, who is a mechanic and one of Cassian’s oldest friends on the planet Ferrix. According to Arjona, the backstory of Bix and Cassian’s relationship is still up in the air.
“They’re childhood friends and there’s this mystery of ‘were they ever really in love?'” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “So it really is a bit of an unknown, but through their long friendship, trust has been built and then broken and then built again and then broken again. But she always ends up choosing him above all else, and that sucks.”
Who is the mother of Adria Arjona?
Adria Arjona Torres was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 25, 1992. She is the daughter of Ricardo Arjona and of his first marriage with the Puerto Rican model Leslie Torres. Adria is the oldest of all her brothers with 30 years, she is followed by Ricardo Jr, 25 years old and little Nicolás, 11.
Adria spent her early years in Mexico City with her family, but at 12, she moved to Miami with her mother and then to New York to study at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute.
“I remember my father telling me to try acting because I needed a creative outlet. I was very shy and I still am, but on the first day of acting class, all of a sudden I was talking and standing up taller and I fell in love,” she told the magazine. Vanity Fair magazine in 2019.
In which films and series has Adria Arjona participated?
Little by little, Adria has made her way as a young star in the complicated film industry in Hollywood. Her first professional appearance on the small screen was in the American CBS drama, ‘Unforgettable’. She also appeared in two episodes of the fourth season of ‘person of interest’.
We would see her later ‘True Detective’ and in the hit Netflix series, ‘Narcos’. But it was not until 2015, when she made her debut on the big screen with a leading role in the Spanish comedy ‘Little Galicia’. Two years later, she premiered his first teleseries as the protagonist, ‘Emerald City’ about the Wizard of Oz, a character created by L. Frank Baum.
In 2019, he played Din Djarin in the hit Disney Plus series, ‘The Mandalorian’. Also, she was part of ‘Morbius’ with Jared Leto and ‘Sweet Girl’action thriller where he shared credits with Jason Momoa and Isabela Merced.
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