Samara Elle Riviera was born in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico to Adela Arribeno Mariscal and Primo Rivera Gonzalez and is of Spanish descent. She is the youngest of eleven siblings who grew up in Escondido, California, a suburb in San Diego County. After graduating from Orange Glen High School she made the move to Los Angeles to try and make her childhood dreams of being an actress a reality. She attended Los Angeles City College to take acting and screenwriting classes. She is also an improv trained actress having taken classes at both Monkey Butler Comedy Improv and The Next Stage Theater. Then she went on to be featured on Enrique Iglesias' Turn the Night Up music video as the "ahh nasty" girl and on The Weekend's Kiss Land Director's cut music video as a hooker. Samara is also an accomplished writer, author and journalist/reporter. Her hobbies include art and photography. Show less «