Camila Mendes

Camila Carraro Mendes (born June 29, 1994) is an American actress. She portrays Veronica Lodge on The CW television series Riverdale. 2Life and career Camila Mendes was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, to Brazilian parents. She moved many times but spent most of her childhood in Florida, where she attended American Heritage School, in Plantation. At the age of 10, she lived in Brazil for a year. Mendes graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 2016. Her first acting job was in a commercial for IKEA. In 2016, Mendes was cast as "silver-tongued high school sophomore" Veronica Lodge in The CW's new teen drama Riverdale, a subversive take on the Archie comic