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Bergen County Native Shakira Barrera Gets Big Break On Hit Netflix Series 'GLOW' Bergen County Native Shakira Barrera Gets Big Break On Hit Netflix Series 'GLOW'
Bergen County Native Shakira Barrera Gets Big Break On Hit Netflix Series 'Glow' Bergen County native Shakira Barrera is the latest cast member to join the hit Netflix series "GLOW." Barrera of Englewood, a Bergen County Academies graduate, plays Yolanda Rives, a professional wrestler on the Emmy-nominated series. The show follows a group of women who perform for a wrestling organization in Los Angeles during the 1980s. Barrera, who is Nicaraguan-American and the first in her family to attend college, recently sat down for a webcam interview about how her Rutgers prepared her for the role. “My character is a stripper, break-dancer, ballerina," said Barre…

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by Cecilia Levine