Eva Mendes

Known for ActingBorn 1974-03-05 (age 52)Miami, Florida, USA

Eva de la Caridad Méndez (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.Read more

Movies & web series

Bluey Book Reads

The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Trippin'

Bluey

MTV Movie & TV Awards

ER

California Romanza

Training Day

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Fast Five

Conan

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

The Place Beyond the Pines

Holy Motors

Mortal Kombat: Conquest

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

We Own the Night

Hitch

The Kelly Clarkson Show

2 Fast 2 Furious

A Night at the Roxbury

The Other Guys

Out of Time

The Tony Danza Show

Knocked Up

Radioman

Late Show with David Letterman

The Daily Show

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

The Early Show

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Last Night

Clear History

Cleaner

Mr. X

DRIVE IN Holy Motors

The Osbournes

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

All About the Benjamins

Exit Wounds

Guilty Hearts

Lost River

My Brother the Pig

Girl in Progress

Ghost Rider

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

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