{"id":586341,"date":"2026-08-31T23:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/586341\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T23:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:28:14","slug":"naya-riveras-10-year-old-son-to-make-acting-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/586341\/","title":{"rendered":"Naya Rivera’s 10-year-old son to make acting debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late actor Naya Rivera’s son Josey is set to make his feature film debut, six years on from his mother’s death. <\/p>\n

The American actress, model and singer best known for playing Santana Lopez on Glee and Hillary Winston from The Royal Family, was declared missing on July 8, 2020<\/a> after her four-year-old son was found alone on a boat she had rented on Lake Piru in California. <\/p>\n

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A boat is docked and roped off with police tape at Lake Piru, where actress Naya Rivera was reported missing Wednesday, on July 9, 2020 in Piru, California. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old’s body was recovered by search and rescue workers five days later, and her death was later ruled an accidental drowning. <\/p>\n

According to Josey’s IMDb page, the now 10-year-old would be starring in The Burning Valley, written and directed by Evan Coury. <\/p>\n

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A memorial set up by fans to honor actress Naya Rivera at Lake Piru, where Rivera’s death was ruled an accidental drowning, on August 3, 2020 in Piru, California. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

His father, Ryan Dorsey, was also listed among the cast, meaning the father-son duo could share some screen time in the younger Dorsey’s film debut.<\/p>\n

Dorsey, 43, has acted in TV shows including Justified and Palm Royale.<\/p>\n

Coury told US newspaper The Tribune-Review that the movie was about a steelworker who loses his job when the mill announces a shutdown. <\/p>\n

“It sets him on a journey as he wanders through his Rust Belt town,” he added. <\/p>\n

The film reportedly began filming earlier this month northeast of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late actor Naya Rivera’s son Josey is set to make his feature film debut, six years on from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,409,111,139,64,69],"class_list":["post-586341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north-america","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}