Francia Raisa - Rollerblading in a bikini

Francia Raisa (born Francia Raisa Almendárez; July 26, 1988) is an American actress. She is sometimes credited as Francia Almendárez. Raisa is most notable for her role in Bring It On: All or Nothing, where she plays a tough Latina cheerleader named Leti, and on The Secret Life of the American Teenager as the majorette Adrian Lee.

Raisa was born and raised in Southern California. Her mother, Virginia Almendárez, was born in Mexico, and her father, Maximo Renán Almendárez Coello, was born in Honduras;[citation needed] he worked to give Raisa and her two sisters, Italia and Irlanda, a wholesome life in the high-paced Los Angeles.[citation needed] In fact, a few years after Raisa was born, her father came up with the winning Latin radio personality "El Cucuy," and since then he has been the number one disc jockey in Los Angeles on 97.9 FM, La Raza. She attended Bishop Alemany High School, in Mission Hills, California.

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.

Raisa began to book acting jobs in her junior year of high school, modeling for print ads and appearing in commercials. She guest-starred in the sitcoms American Family: Journey of Dreams and Over There. Just a month into her senior year, she booked one of her first lead roles, starring opposite Hayden Panettiere in Bring It On: All or Nothing. She co-starred in the Nickelodeon movie Shredderman Rules, where she portrayed Isabel and in The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream, as Alejandra Delgado. She currently plays the role of Adrian Lee in The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

In 2009, Raisa guest-starred on the USA network's TV series "In Plain Sight" and she will be reprising her role as the lead for the sequel to MGM's The Cutting Edge: Fire and Ice in spring 2010. On June 14, 2010 on the Howard Stern show Benjamin Bronk confirmed he had started to date Raisa.

She has also co-starred in a short film directed by David Henrie called Boo, which aired recently on YouTube.