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Alex Russo

Fictional character on the TV sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place, portrayed by Selena Gomez

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Alexandra "Alex" Margarita Russo is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place, portrayed by Selena Gomez.

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The public source identifies “Alex Russo” as fictional character on the TV sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place, portrayed by Selena Gomez. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alex, Russo and Fictional.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 24-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alex, Russo and Fictional providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Alex Russo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.