Person in history
YaYa Gosselin
YaYa Gosselin, American actress
Life at a glance
- Born
- 2009 · January 26
- Age this year
- 17No death recorded in our data
- Known as
- actor. Citizenship: United States
- Born
- 17th anniversary of their birth this year
Their story
Who they were
Felisita Leon "YaYa" Gosselin 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.
Early life
Early life Gosselin was born in Dallas on January 26, 2009, to Monica Mendez-Gosselin. [ 1 ] Gosselin's birth name, Felisita, was after her great-grandmother Felisita Chavez, as was her nickname YaYa. [ 2 ] 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. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] They are Latinas . [ 4 ]
Path and career
Career 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. [ 1 ] In 2017, she appeared in After Omelas . [ 2 ] In 2018, she made minor appearances in action thriller film Peppermint and the anthology television series The Purge . [ 3 ]
Why this date
YaYa Gosselin appears on our January 26 calendar for 2009 as a birth entry.
The world when they were born
Other entries we record for 2009.
- January 26Antananarivo
- June 19Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- November 23Maguindanao massacre
- November 1Ilyushin Il-76
- June 18Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Born the same day
Contemporaries — born the same year
- 2009Walker ScobellJanuary 5
- 2009Hala FinleyMay 18
- 2009Christian ConveryNovember 10
- 2009Coco YoshizawaSeptember 22
- 2009Leah JeffriesSeptember 25
- 2009Lumi PollackJanuary 18
- 2009Suleman octupletsJanuary 26
- 2009Shaylee MansfieldApril 6
Sources
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Questions about YaYa Gosselin
When was YaYa Gosselin born?
January 26 2009.
How old would YaYa Gosselin be today?
17 this year, based on the birth year we hold. We have no death record for them in our data, which is not proof either way.
Who else was born on January 26?
Darya Astakhova, Hwang Hee-chan, Zakaria Bakkali and others — the list is on this page and on the date page.
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