Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes

Stats
Measurements: 34-25-36
Height: 5'6"
Date of birth: March 5, 1974
Eye color: Brown
Hair Color: Brunette
Ethnicity: Latina
Job: actress


Bio

Versatile Latin hottie Eva Mendes is an American actress equally adept in comedies, dramas, makeup commercials and, in her earlier days, music videos .

Born in Miami to Cuban-American parents, Eva moved with her mother to Los Angeles after her parents divorced. While attending Hoover High School in Glendale, California (which is like a less Burbank-y Burbank), Eva was often teased about her buck teeth, overbite and facial mole. (Oh, how times change.) After dropping out of Cal-State Northridge to pursue acting, she snagged early thespian work in guest roles on soap operas and as a tightly dressed vixen in music videos for Pet Shop Boys and Will Smith. (Eva not only appears in Smith’s video for "Miami," she’s the sexy bilingual voice behind the lyric, "Welcome to Miami…Bienvenido a Miami.")

Her major career jump came as Denzel Washington’s girlfriend in the quite-badass Training Day (with Charlotte Ayanna). The much-deserved attention she gained from that role (FYI, she’s naked in it) led to parts in All About the Benjamins, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Out of Time, Stuck on You and—coming full circle—opposite Will Smith in the romantic comedy Hitch .

More recently, Eva shared an impressively erotic sex scene with Joaquin Phoenix in We Own the Night, and in 2008 she’ll star as shopgirl Crystal Allen in The Women (Meg Ryan, Jada Pinkett Smith). We only wish all the women in The Women could look as great as Eva. Her current project is starring with other hotties Scarlett Johansson, Paz Vega, Sarah Paulson, Jaime King, and Stana Katic in The Spirit.

After refusing to pose nude for Playboy Mendes did a semi-nude spread for Flaunt Magazine, "I actually did a little nude shot. You won't see anything. I was covering myself... but I love 'Flaunt.' I think their artwork is some of the best artwork out there as far as photography is concerned, so I took it off. I felt really comfortable, it was fun. There's something really liberating about it." She would go on to pose opless with her breasts exposed for "Vogue Italy" in May, 2008. She has also appeared nude in We Own the Night and Training Day.


Fun Facts

Voted #4 in the AskMen.com's Top 99 Women 2008 Edition.

Before Eva got her big break, she sold hot dogs at ‘Hot Dog on a Stick’ at Glendale Galleria Mall in California.

Eva's favorite films are The Shining and Blow up.

Once admitted on the record she prefers kissing girls on screen.

Was teased as a child for buck teeth.

Maxim ranked her #7 in its 2007 Hot 100 issue.


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