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Eva Mendes was born in Houston,
Texas but raised in Miami and Los Angeles. Before Eva hit the big screen,
she was studying marketing in the late '90s when she was discovered
because her neighbor, a photographer, had her photo in his portfolio and
it caught the eye of an agent. Soon appearing in an Aerosmith video and
making her film debut in Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror, Mendes
worked her way through the gamut of aspiring actors to appear in such
high-profile films as Urban Legends: Final Cut and Once Upon a Time in
Mexico.
Dropping out of school soon after being randomly discovered, Mendes
appeared in a few made-for-television productions and hammed it up with
Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan in A Night at the Roxbury before being cast
in a prominent role in Urban Legends: Final Cut. Working against
typecasting despite her teen horror resumé, Mendes next took roles in Exit
Wounds, Training Day, and All About the Benjamins. Mendes next began work
on a children's book titled Crazy Leggs Beshee in which she wanted to
introduce art, history, vocabulary, and values to children in a fun and
easily comprehendable medium.
In 2003, Mendes' career took off, with the actress taking on large roles
in an ecclectic quartet of high-profile films. In 2 Fast 2 Furious she
played a customs agent working with Paul Walker to bring down a Miami drug
cartel. Out of Time found her reteaming with Training Day costar Denzel
Washington. Flexing her comedic chops, Mendes was the love interest of
half a pair of conjoined twins in the Farrelly brothers' Stuck on You. And
in Once Upon a Time in Mexico she played another government agent, this
time opposite Johnny Depp.
2004 saw no signs of Mendes slowing down, with the Cuban-American beauty
starring as the ex-girlfriend of Luke Wilson in The Wendell Baker Story, a
film Wilson cowrote with brother Owen Wilson and codirected with sibling
Andrew Wilson. |
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". . . I feel I'll take on the
responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin
woman."
"It's fun to be a woman. It's fun to flirt and wear makeup and have
boobs."
"The celebrity world can be so ugly. Everyone seems to have slept
with everyone else and it's some sort of strange weird cycle. I
don't want to get into that."
"I don't go to premieres. I attend film openings I'm in, and that's
about it. Fame and celebrity doesn't matter to me. The longevity of
my career does."
I have the hugest... overbite. It's so big, my older brothers and
sisters used to call me Bugs. I looked like a bottle opener. But
I've never fixed my bite because it's one of the things that makes
me me. I used to get teased about the mole on my left cheek. In
junior high the other kids would say, 'You've got some chocolate on
your face,' and I fell for it every time. I said, 'The minute I turn
18 I'm going to get that mole removed!' But I'm happy I didn't. My
best feature is my big hips. I've got some nice childbearing hips,
and I feel very proud of them. When I was younger I thought they
were too big. I wanted to be slimmer. But now I totally embrace
them. |
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Cleaner (2007)
We Own the Night (2007) .... Amanda Juarez
Live! (2007) .... Katy
Ghost Rider (2007) .... Roxanne Simpson
... aka Spirited Racer (Philippines: English title: review title)
3 & 3 (2005) .... Gabriella
Trust the Man (2005) .... Faith
The Wendell Baker Story (2005) .... Doreen
Hitch (2005/I) .... Sara
Stuck on You (2003) .... April
Out of Time (2003/I) .... Alex Diaz Whitlock
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) .... Ajedrez
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) .... Monica Fuentes
... aka 2 Fast 2 Furious (Germany)
All About the Benjamins (2002) .... Gina
... aka All About the Money (Germany)
Training Day (2001) (as Eva Mendez) .... Sara
Exit Wounds (2001) .... Trish
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000) .... Vanessa Valdeon
... aka Légendes urbaines 2 (Canada: French title)
... aka Légendes urbaines: La suite (Canada: French title)
... aka Leyendas urbanas: Corte final (USA: Spanish title)
The Disciples (2000) (TV) .... Maria Serranco
"V.I.P." .... Esmarelda / ... (2 episodes, 1999)
... aka V.I.P. - Die Bodyguards (Germany)
- Val Goes to Town (1999) TV Episode .... Esmerelda
- Val the Hard Way (1999) TV Episode (as Eva Mendez) .... Esmarelda
My Brother the Pig (1999) .... Matilda
"Mortal Kombat: Conquest" .... Hanna (1 episode, 1998)
- Thicker Than Blood (1998) TV Episode (as Eva Mendez) .... Hanna
A Night at the Roxbury (1998) .... Bridesmaid
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) (V) (as Eva Mendez)
.... Kir
... aka Children of the Corn 5
"ER" .... Donna (1 episode, 1998)
- Exodus (1998) TV Episode (as Eva Mendez) .... Donna |
