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Felisita Leon “YaYa” Gosselin (born January 26, 2009) is an American actress. She began her career modelling for commercials and made her acting debut in After Omelas (2017). Following this, she made minor appearances in Peppermint (2018), The Purge (2018), 13 Reasons Why (2019–2020), and FBI (2019–2020). She reprised her role in its spin-off FBI: Most Wanted (2020–2022) as Tali LaCroix in which she was a regular in the second season. Gosselin gained wide recognition for playing the lead role of Missy Moreno in Netflix’s We Can Be Heroes (2020).
Gosselin was born in Dallas on January 26, 2009, to Monica Mendez-Gosselin. Gosselin’s birth name, Felisita, was after her great-grandmother Felisita Chavez, as was her nickname YaYa. At the age of three, she began acting at Dallas Children’s Theatre and also studied acting at DTV Studios. Gosselin studied contemporary and ballet at Ohlook Performing Arts Center. She has two younger sisters. They are Latinas.
At the age of five, Gosselin signed with an agency and booked her first job a month later, modeling for commercials such as JCPenney, Famous Footwear, Hasbro, and Conn’s HomePlus commercials. In 2017, she appeared…
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