In the 2006 film Quinceañera, who played Magdalena, the birthday girl?

In the 2006 film Quinceañera, Emily Rios played Magdalena, the birthday girl.

Magdalena is the film’s central character, a teenager whose planned celebration becomes entangled with family conflict, religious expectations, and questions about belonging. The movie uses her quinceañera as the setting for a coming-of-age story rather than presenting the event only as a traditional ceremony.

Emily Rios was born in Los Angeles and began acting as a teenager. Her performance in Quinceañera was one of her early major film roles and brought attention to the young actor.

The film’s title refers to the Spanish-American celebration of a girl’s fifteenth birthday. It was directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland and released in the United States in 2006.