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Which characters is Jenna Ortega best known for?

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Jenna Ortega’s breakout role came playing Harley Diaz in the Disney sitcom Stuck in the Middle (2016–18). She starred as the middle child of seven siblings, who invents gadgets to deal with living in a large family. Ortega gained further fame when she starred as Ellie Alves in the second season (2019) of the hit Netflix show You. In 2022 Ortega accepted the starring role in the Netflix series Wednesday. In the Tim Burton-produced horror-comedy, Ortega portrays Wednesday Addams, the iconic character originally from The Addams Family comic. She also portrayed Tara Carpenter in Scream (2022) and its sequel Scream VI (2023). In Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024), she portrayed the teenage daughter of a widow (Winona Ryder) who returns to her childhood home.