Eva Mendes

Biography

Eva de la Caridad Méndez (/ˈmɛndɛz/, Spanish:[ˈeβa ðe la kaɾiˈðað ˈmendes]; born March 5, 1974), known professionally as Eva Mendes, is an American retired actress. Her acting career began in the late 1990s with a series of roles in films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut(2000). Mendes's performance in Training Day (2001) marked a turning point in her career and led to parts in the commercially successful films 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and Hitch (2005). She starred in Ghost Rider (2007) and The Spirit (2008), both film adaptations of comics, and ventured into more dramatic territory with We Own the Night(2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans(2009), Last Night (2010), and The Place Beyond the Pines (2012). Her other films include Out of Time (2003), The Women (2008), The Other Guys (2010), and Girl in Progress (2012). Mendes has appeared in several music videos for artists such as Will Smith and has also been an ambassador for brands including Calvin Klein, Cartier, Reebok, Pantene shampoo, and Peek & Cloppenburg. She has designed for New York & Company and is the creative director of CIRCA Beauty, a makeup line sold at Walgreens. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eva Mendes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Fast Five

as Monica Fuentes (uncredited)

2 Fast 2 Furious

as Monica Fuentes

Training Day

as Sara

Ghost Rider

as Roxanne Simpson

Hitch

as Sara Melas

The Place Beyond the Pines

as Romina Gutierrez

The Other Guys

as Sheila Gamble

Knocked Up

as Self (uncredited)

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

as CIA Agent Ajedrez

We Own the Night

as Amada Juarez