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Eva Mendes

Full Name: Eva Mendes
Birthday: March 5, 1974
Sun sign: Pisces
Birth place: Miami, Florida, US
Nationality: American
Height: 5` 6

Biography of Eva Mendes

A fiercely independent actress who refuses to be pressed into a conventional role, Eva Mendes was studying marketing in the late `90s when an agent stumbled across her photo and convinced her to pursue acting more steadily.

Mendes, who is Cuban-American, was born in Miami and raised in Los Angeles. She started her acting career while she was in college. She began to study acting under Ivana Chubbuck.

After a series of music videos and commercials, Mendes first serious role came when she starred opposite Denzel Washington in the Box Office hit ‘Training Day’. Her acting skills got her noticed by the celebrated director, Carl Franklin, who hired Mendes for the MGM feature ‘Out of Time’, once more starring opposite Denzel Washington. In the same year, Mendes appeared in ‘Once Upon A Time in Mexico’ opposite Johnny Depp.

After these two block busters, there was no looking back for Mendes as she was signed opposite the likes of Will Smith and Nicolas cage in ‘Hitch’ and ‘The Ghost Rider’

In a very short time, Mendes had the opportunity to work with esteemed directors such as Carl Franklin, Robert Rodriguez, Antoine Fuqua, the Farrelly Bros and John Singleton, therefore earning the reputation as a serious actress who is committed to her craft.

Filmography

  • 1998 Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror
  • 1998 A Night at the Roxbury
  • 1999 My Brother the Pig
  • 2000 The Disciples
  • 2000 Urban Legends: Final Cut
  • 2001 Exit Wounds
  • 2001 Training Day
  • 2001 All About the Benjamins
  • 2003 2 Fast 2 Furious
  • 2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico
  • 2003 Out of Time
  • 2003 Stuck on You
  • 2005 Hitch
  • 2005 The Wendell Baker Story
  • 2005 3 & 3
  • 2006 Trust the Man
  • 2007 Ghost Rider
  • 2007 We Own the Night
  • 2007 Live!
  • 2007 Cleaner
  • 2008 The Women
  • 2008 The Spirit
  • 2009 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  • 2010 The Other Guys
  • 2010 Southbound TBA