Xochitl Gomez
Xochitl Gomez is an actor, born 2006.
She started at five, in local musical theatre and student films, which is early even by the standards of American child performers, and turned professional in 2018 with a role on Raven's Home. Two years later Netflix cast her as Dawn Schafer in the first season of The Baby-Sitters Club, a part that asks an actor to be sincere without being sugary. She managed it, and the show was better for her being in it.
Then came Marvel. America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a very large introduction handled with a light touch: the character spends the film being chased across the multiverse and frightened by it, and Gomez plays the fear straight rather than treating the role as a superhero audition. Whatever you think of the film, and there is plenty to argue about in it, she is not the problem with it. In 2023 she won season 32 of Dancing with the Stars, which for a young actor is a completely different kind of professional credential.
Where this goes next is genuinely open. Boston Blue puts her into network procedural television as Penny Bravo, and the listings here show two 2026 films, Hive and an animated Cat in the Hat. It is a career at the point where the next two choices will matter more than the last five.
Movies (5)
TV (2)
Where to start with Xochitl Gomez
The Baby-Sitters Club first. It is the least flashy thing she has done and the best evidence of what she can actually do: a children's series played entirely straight, with Dawn Schafer a hard part to make likeable rather than smug.
After that, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for the scale, with the warning that the film is doing eight things at once and her role is only one of them. Roped is a small romance from the same period and strictly for completists. Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a promotional making-of, useful if you want to hear her talk about the work rather than do it. Boston Blue is the current job and the one likely to decide whether she becomes a television lead, and The Cat in the Hat opens the voice-acting door, which is a career of its own.