Jenna Ortega would "love to be an investigative journalist"

Asked what job she would do if she wasn't an actress, Jenna told BuzzFeed: "All of people in my family are in the medical field. I feel like I would be a nurse, of some sort.

"I would also love to be an investigative journalist. I think that would be so fun, to just commit to something and become obsessed with something and then write about it. Potentially travel across the world to speak on those things. I just think that's such a cool job."

Jenna has even contemplated what her life would like if she decided to quit acting.

She said: "Anytime I get overwhelmed I think, 'Do I want to do this? Do I not want to do this?' I always go, 'There's always investigative journalism.'"

Jenna is best known for playing Wednesday Addams in the hit Netflix series 'Wednesday', and the actress previously admitted that she can see similarities between her real-life self and her on-screen character.

Jenna confessed to having a similar sense of humour to her character.

Speaking to PEOPLE, she explained: "People have been telling me I look like her since I was six years old. And I have a pretty dark sense of humour!"

Despite this, Jenna needed to make some adjustments in order to play Wednesday.

She said: "I had to do things a bit different with my physicality and the way I carried myself.

"She almost has a social awkwardness. So when she does toxic, manipulative things, you know it's not coming out of malicious intent."