Leslie Grace Martínez will be the new Batgirl in the DC comics film, but who is the actress?
Who is Leslie Grace
American singer and actress born in 1995 made her debut with an English and Spanish cover of “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”, which made her the youngest singer to earn the top spot on Hot Latin Songs.
During her career she has been nominated five times in the Lo Nuestro Award, winning one in 2016, as well as receiving three nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards, three at the Latin Grammy Awards. In 2013 he released his first album, Leslie Grace, ranked fourth in the Billboard Top Latin Albums. During his career he received five nominations in the Lo Nuestro Prize, winning it in 2016.
He also won the México Kids’ Choice Awards in 2018 for his duet with Play-N-Skillz “Lo Siento”. In 2020 he made his film debut with In the Heights – Dreaming in New York.
Leslie Grace as Batman
According to US magazines, he will play Barbara Gordon, namely the daughter of the police commissioner of Gotham City (Jim Gordon) and the most famous incarnation of Batgirl.
Not the one that marked the character’s comic debut, because in that case we are talking about Betty Kane, but undoubtedly the most famous and also the one that appears in one of the seminal albums in the history of comics, namely ‘The Killing Joke’ written by Alan Moore . Before seeing the actress catapulted into the world of superheroes and superheroines we have to wait a little longer. The film is in fact being worked on, there is still no official date for airing in cinemas even if we talk about the end of 2022 or even better, the first months of 2023.
Batgirl will be a new female superhero after Wonder Woman (as far as DC is concerned) and Captain Marver, The Black Widow and the Valkyries (as far as Marvel is concerned).
The Batgirl character
The Batgirl character made her comic book debut in 1961, although only a few years later she took on the memorable identity of Barbara Gordon. She has since established herself as one of the most beloved superheroines, even when her cape has passed to other characters because the same Gordon was paralyzed by the Joker and took over the role of Oracle.
The film with Leslie Grace is supposed to tell some kind of origin story and thus show the initial stages of his fight against crime. It will also tell the origins of the character, showing those embryonic phases in which the superheroine began to fight against crime.