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Eva Mendes was born in Houston, Texas on March 5, 1974 with a very
promising life ahead of her. Not knowing her life was going to change
years
down the road, Mendes’s parents moved her and her three siblings to Los
Angeles when she was still just a little girl. Eva is the youngest of four
children; she has two sisters and one brother. Years ago, Eva’s father
worked as a meat distributor and her mother worked as a bank teller when
they moved to Los Angeles. She grew up in the Echo Park neighborhood,
longing for more, but not really having much of a picture of how to get
it. Ever since she was little she wanted to be rich and that was because
her family was poor. She was not extremely poor where she did not have
food or a roof over her head. Her family just did not have the finer of
things and everything they owned was cheap. Mendes’s parents did not own
the house she grew up in and that has made Eva value things in life more
because of her past experiences.
Graduating from Glendale High School, Mendes decided to major in marketing
at California State Northridge University. She was studying to be an
interior decorator and would be doing that as a profession presently if
she was not an actress. Between semesters, Mendes decided to earn some
extra money and appeared in a smaller feature film. Little did she know
that her life was instantly going to change forever. Her neighbor, a
photographer had snapped some photos of Mendes at a garage sale and placed
them in his portfolio.
Later on, at an interview for a job, an agent had noticed Mendes’s photos
and had asked to meet her. After speaking with Mendes, the agent convinced
Mendes to quit school and pursue a career in acting.
From there Mendes took a few acting classes with respectable acting coach
Ivana Chubbuck and soon after debuted in Children of the Corn V: Fields of
Terror. She also appeared in music videos for Aerosmith and Will Smith,
which in turn led Mendes to take a small, but career turning role in the
box office hit “Training Day”. With her breakout performance as Denzel
Washington’s mistress, Mendes had become a star overnight. From here her
career really started to take off.
In 2003 Mendes starred in the action blockbuster film “2 Fast 2 Furious”
when she played a customs agent working alongside Paul Walker. That same
year she starred in the comedy feature film “All About the Benjamins” with
Ice Cube. Also in 2003 she worked with Denzel Washington a second time in
the film “Out of Time”. Continuing to act, Eva took a much larger role
alongside Will Smith in the romantic comedy “Hitch”. Mendes plays a
journalist who has her own ideas about romance, but soon enough falls for
Alex Hitchens (Will Smith). The movie hit a record breaking number on its
first weekend and sold out theaters with their performances. Eva is
currently working with Nicolas Cage on the set of “Ghost Rider” which is
said to be out in the theaters in 2007. This Cuban American beauty has
been seen in several movies and shows no signs of slowing down.
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