Xochitl Gomez

Xochitl Gomez-Deines (Los Angeles, California, United States, April 29, 2006) is a Mexican-American actress. She is known for playing Dawn Schaefer in the first season of the Netflix series The Baby-Sitters Club (2020) and for playing America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).

In October 2020, she was cast as the superheroine America Chavez in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).

Gomez was born in Los Angeles, California, USA, to a Mexican father and an American mother. She got started in acting at age five in local musicals. Before appearing in The Baby-Sitters Club, she was in the TV series Raven's Home (2017), You're the Worst (2019), and Gentefied (2020). In 2020, Gomez won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Supporting Role for her work in the 2019 film Shadow Wolves. In March 2021, Netflix recast the character of Dawn Schaefer in the second season of The Baby-Sitters Club due to scheduling conflicts with Gomez's filming schedule for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Gomez has marched in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the Women's March 2017.

Her name Xóchitl means flower in Nahuatl, an Indigenous language spoken in Mexico and other Central American countries.