‘Goosebumps’ Casts Ana Ortiz As Series Regular For Season 2
Ana Ortiz (Love, Victor) is joining David Schwimmer in the Disney+ anthology series Goosebumps for Season 2 as a series regular.
From Disney Branded Television and produced by Sony Pictures Television, the series is based upon R.L Stine’s bestselling Scholastic series. Each season features a new story, setting and cast. Season 2 will follow teenage siblings who discover a threat stirring, triggering a chain of events that unravel a profound mystery. As they delve into the unknown, the duo find themselves entangled in the chilling tale of four teenagers who mysteriously vanished in 1994.
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Ortiz will play Jen, a dedicated police detective who remains rooted in her Brooklyn neighborhood after experiencing a tragic event that involved her friends in adolescence.
Nicholas Stoller (The Muppets) and Rob Letterman (Pokémon Detective Pikachu) developed the series and serve as executive producers, alongside showrunner Hilary Winston (Community), Neal H. Moritz (Fast & Furious franchise), Scholastic Entertainment’s Iole Lucchese (Clifford the Big Red Dog), Pavun Shetty (The Boys), Conor Welch (Platonic), Scholastic Entertainment’s Caitlin Friedman (Stillwater) and Erin O’Malley (New Girl).
Ortiz broke out as Hilda Suarez in ABC’s hit comedy Ugly Betty, earning both American Latino Media Arts and Imagen Awards for “Best Supporting Actress” for her portrayal as Betty’s (America Ferrera) sassy older sister. Additional TV credits include roles in Marc Cherry’s Devious Maids, The Mindy Project from Fox/Hulu, ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder, FX’s Over There and ABC’s Boston Legal, to name a few.
Most recently, Ortiz was a series regular on the Hulu series Love, Victor. She is repped by Gersh and Geordie Frey.
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