Berenice Chavez grew up in Las Vegas and credits the city — and a UNLV professor — with setting her on the path to Hollywood’s biggest night.
Chavez was 16 when her family moved to Las Vegas. After finishing high school, she enrolled at UNLV unsure of what she wanted to do with her life.
“I finished high school and I just didn’t know what I was gonna do with my life, so I went to UNLV just to kind of do something like figure out what I was gonna do and, and from there I just slowly started exploring film classes and ended up loving it,” Chavez said…