Eva Mendes, also given credit as Eva
Mendez was born in Miami, Florida on March 5, 1978. He parents
are both Cubans, and contributed to an interesting childhood that
saw Eva move to Miami and then Los Angeles, when she was still
a young girl.
Like some of our favorite actresses (Liv
Tyler, Alicia
Silverstone), Eva Mendes kicked off her acting career in an Aerosmith
video.
Mendes kept at it in the comedy A Night at the Roxbury,
and then, after smaller projects, resurfaced in 2000 with a role
in Urban Legends: Final Cut. It was there that she began to get
labeled as a tough, feisty and sexy vixen; this persona was maintained
in the action hit Exit Wounds and especially in her most admired
performance, as Denzel Washington's wife in 2001's Training Day.
She is writing a children¹s book, "Crazy
Leggs Beshee." Inspired by her nieces and nephews, she wants
to introduce vocabulary, art, history and values through a medium
kids understand. |
Eva Mendes
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