Francia Raisa

Raisa was born and raised in Southern California to Renan Almendarez Coello and Virginia Almendarez. She is of Mexican and Honduran ethnicity and has two younger sisters, Italia and Irlanda. A few years after Raisa was born her father came up with the Latin radio personality "El Cucuy". She attended Bishop Alemany High School for a while.
At the early age of five, Raisa began taking dance lessons excelling in tap, jazz, acrobatics, hip hop, and Polynesian dance. She also explored karate and ice skating.