Disney Plus has put Selena Gomez back at the center of its lineup with a watch guide that traces her screen career from Disney Channel favorite to current series star. The guide, titled Selena Gomez Movies & TV Shows: Then & Now | Explore Disney+, tells viewers to revisit her Disney history, from her beginnings on Wizards of Waverly Place to her current hit, Only Murders in the Building.
That framing matters because Gomez is still one of the most searched names attached to Disney, and the guide makes her career path easy to follow in one place. It starts where many viewers first met her as Alex Russo, then moves through the film work that came after her Disney Channel breakout, including Princess Protection Program, where she plays Carter Mason, and Ramona and Beezus, where she appears as Beezus, Ramona’s older sister.
Wizards of Waverly Place remains the clearest anchor in that story. The series follows siblings Alex, Justin and Max as wizards in training, and Gomez’s turn as Alex Russo made her a Disney Channel face long before she became known for other roles. The guide also highlights Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, which follows the Russos on a tropical vacation and keeps the character at the center of the family’s spell-filled world.
There is a small friction point in the guide’s neat timeline: it packages a career that stretched across television, film and streaming into a single promotional path, which means the emphasis is less on chronology than on brand continuity. Still, that is the point of the feature. Disney Plus is not breaking new ground here so much as reminding subscribers that Gomez’s appeal has moved with her, from Alex Russo to Carter Mason and Beezus, and now to Mabel Mora in Only Murders in the Building.
The practical result is simple. Viewers looking for Selena Gomez on Disney Plus now have a curated route through the roles that built her profile, and the guide leaves no doubt about where her present-day peak sits. The company wants the journey to end with Only Murders in the Building, but the deeper message is that Gomez’s Disney-era identity still helps drive the way audiences find her now.
