Eva Mendes

Biography of Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes was born on March 5, 1974 in Miami, Florida, United States.

She is the youngest of four children of Cuban immigrants Eva Pérez Suárez and Juan Carlos Méndez. She had two brothers, Juan Carlos and Carlo, and a sister, Janet.

Her mother worked at Mann's Chinese Theater and in an aerospace company; the father she ran a meat distribution business.

After the divorce of the parents it was raised by the mother of her in the suburb of Glendale, Los Angeles, as a Catholic and at some point she considered becoming a nun.

She attended high school at Hoover High School, and left his marketing studies at California State University, Northridge, after being discovered by a talent agent.

She made her debut on the big screen with Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998). In the same year, she appeared in an episode of the television series ER and the comedy A Night at the Roxbury, which gave certain popularity.

He later worked in My Brother the Pig (1999), Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000), Out of Time (2001) Training Day (2001), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Hitch (2005), Ghost Rider (2007 ), Live! (2007), which she also produced, Last Night (2010), Girl in Progress (2012) or The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) among others.

For her performance in Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) she had a nomination for the Teen Choice Awards.

In 2013, she worked on the HBO movie Clear History. A year later she appeared in Lost River Ryan Gosling

She also participated in various music videos as Pet Shop Boys, is a é life; The Strokes, The End Has No End; Aerosmith Hole in my soul and Will Smith, Miami.

In addition, she worked as a model Magnum ice cream, Revlon, Calvin Klein, Cartier, Thierry Mugler, Reebok, Campari apritif, Pantene, Morgan and Peek & Cloppenburg Clothing.

Her partner actor Ryan Gosling since 2011, with whom she had her daughter Esmeralda on September 12, 2014. They had the second daughter of her, Amada, on April 29, 2016.