About Rachel Zegler
Rachel Anne Zegler ( born May 3, 2001) is an American actress and singer. Zegler gained recognition for her performance as María in Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the musical West Side Story (2021), for which she earned the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. She has since portrayed Anthea in the superhero action film Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023), Lucy Gray Baird in the teen dystopian drama The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), and the titular character in the musical fantasy Snow White (2025). Zegler made her Broadway debut playing Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (2024) and her West End debut as the titular character in the musical Evita (2025), for which she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Zegler became a fan of the theater after seeing her first Broadway show, Beauty and the Beast, at age four. The film received mixed reviews and was a box-office failure, grossing $134.1 million worldwide against a production budget of $110–125 million. The film grossed $349 million worldwide against a production budget of $100 million. Zegler gained wide recognition for her performance as María in Steven Spielberg's film adaptation West Side Story (2021), winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
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