Maria Canals-Barrera

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Summary

Maria Canals-Barrera is an American actress known for playing Theresa Russo in Wizards of Waverly Place, Connie Torres in Camp Rock, and voicing Hawkgirl in Justice League and Sunset Boulevardez in The Proud Family. Her work spans family sitcoms, musical films, and animation. In interviews, she has described Hollywood’s tendency to cast Latinos as outsiders and called for Latino performers to be included in a wider range of American stories, not only stories centered on Latino struggles. No public party campaigning, political affiliations, or separate activist roles are on record.