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Heather Rae (born October 1, 1966) is an American film producer, director, and actress of partly Cherokee descent. She produced Frozen River (2008), which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival as well as two Academy Awards nominations and was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics.
Rae was born in Venice, California. She graduated from Evergreen State College.
One of her first films was a short documentary in 1990 called Birth Our Own. Other directing filmography includes Trudell (2005).
Rae has also worked as an actress, in the movies Silent Tears (1998),Backroads (2000),Christmas in the Clouds (2001),Most Funniest (2005),Norman Waiting (2006), and Disappearance (2006).
Rae is married to screenwriter/director Russell Friedenberg and has three children.
As of the spring of 2008, Rae was an adjunct professor of communications at Boise State University, teaching "Producing the Independent Film".
Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American actress and singer best known for portraying Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place. She subsequently ventured into feature films and has starred in the television movies Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, and Princess Protection Program. She made her starring theatrical film debut in Ramona and Beezus.
Her career has expanded into the music industry; Gomez is the lead singer and founder of the pop band Selena Gomez & the Scene, which has released three RIAA Gold certified studio albums, Kiss & Tell, A Year Without Rain, and When the Sun Goes Down, spawned three RIAA Platinum certified singles, "Naturally", "Who Says" and "Love You Like a Love Song" and charted four No. 1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs. Gomez has also contributed to the soundtracks of Tinker Bell, Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place, and Shake It Up after signing a record deal with Hollywood Records.