Eva Mendes

Date of Birth: 5th. March, 1974

Birth Place: Miami, Florida, US

Father: Cuban, a car salesman.

Mother: Cuban, also named Eva, is now an elementary school principal.

Siblings: Two sisters and a brother

Religion: Eva Mendes was raised Roman Catholic and aspired to be a nun.

Schooling: Mendes never saw herself as an actress while she was young and decided to pursue other interests. She attended Hoover High School in Glendale and later attended California State University, Northridge to study marketing, but dropped out after wanting to begin an acting career. She studied with Ivana Chubbuck.

Start of Career: One day Mendes caught the eye of an agent who convinced her to pursue acting more steadily. She worked her way up through commercials to music videos, including an appearance in Will Smith's video "Miami" and the Pet Shop Boys music video for "Se a vida é (That’s the way life is)" in 1996 and Aerosmith's video "Hole in My Soul" in 1997, to guest roles in soap operas and supporting film roles. Her first film appearance was in the direct-to-video Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror. Mendes received her first big-screen break when she appeared in Training Day.

Personal Life: In early 2008, Mendes was reported to have been in a rehab facility in Utah for several weeks. In a statement, her representative said that she had been "working hard for the past year and made a positive decision to take some much-needed time off to proactively attend to some personal issues that, while not critical, she felt deserved some outside professional support." In 2008, Mendes was outspoken in her support for Barack Obama's presidential campaign.[14] Mendes and long-time boyfriend, George Gargurevich have been together for six years

Films:

1998 Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror

A Night at the Roxbury

1999 My Brother the Pig

2000 The Disciples

Urban Legends: Final Cut

2001 Exit Wounds

Training Day

All About the Benjamins

2003 2 Fast 2 Furious

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Out of Time

Stuck on You

2005 Hitch

The Wendell Baker Story

3 & 3

2006 Trust the Man

2007 Ghost Rider

Knocked Up

We Own the Night

Live!

Cleaner

2008 The Women

The Spirit

2009 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Last Night in post-production

Queen of the South in production

2010 Southbound pre-production

Resident Evil: Afterlife pre-production

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