Eva Longoria

At 49 years old, Eva Longoria has this physical status:

Eva Jacqueline Longoria Bastón (born March 15, 1975) is an American actor, producer, filmmaker, and businesswoman.

Longoria was recognized for her portrayal of Isabella Braa on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, in which she appeared from 2001 to 2003, after a number of guest appearances on several television programs.

Gabrielle Solis, the television series on Desperate Housewives, spanned 2004 to 2012, and for which she received Golden Globe and Screen Actor Guild Award nominations, she is best known for her appearance on the television show Desperate Housewives.

She has appeared in The Sentinel (2006), Over Her Dead Body (2008), For Greater Glory (2012), Lowriders (2016), and Overboard (2018).

Ana Sofia Calderón appeared on the short-lived NBC sitcom Telenovela, and she also appeared as an executive producer for the Lifetime television series Devious Maids from 2015 to 2016.

Food Chains and The Harvest have both served as executive producer of social issue documentaries, including Food Chains and The Harvest. Longoria has appeared in several television commercial campaigns.

Multiple publications, including People en Espaol and People magazine, have named her as one of Hollywood's most beautiful women.

She currently works with L'Oréal and New York & Co., among other things.

Early life and education

Longoria told Redbook in 2016:

She was raised Roman Catholic. She did not speak Spanish growing up and did not know the term until 2009. She worked at a Wendy's restaurant part-time for three years to help her mother's quincea's fund. Longoria also told the paper how her time as a teenager inspired her work ethic, saying, "I couldn't wait to get to work and make my own money." Longoria obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. At that time (1998), she had also been crowned Miss Corpus Christi USA. She entered a talent competition that led to her move to Los Angeles, and a theatre agent soon thereafter, she was discovered and signed by a theatrical agent. She spent four years as a headhunter while auditioning for roles.

She received her master's degree in Chicano Studies in May 2013 after three years at California State University, Northridge. "Success STEMS: The Value of Latinas in STEM Education" was the subject of her thesis.

Personal life

Longoria was married to actor Tyler Christopher, the star of General Hospital, from 2002 to 2004.

Tony Parker, the San Antonio Spurs' point guard, was a long time fan of Longoria in November 2004. The couple got engaged on November 30, 2006, on November 30, 2006. On July 6, 2007, they married in a civil service at a Paris city hall. On July 7, 2007, they held their Catholic wedding reception at the Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois Church in Paris. Longoria filed for divorce from Parker in Los Angeles on November 17, 2010, citing "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for the separation. Longoria filed a divorce petition requesting that her family name be restored. Parker also requested spousal assistance. The couple had a prenuptial contract that was signed in June 2007, a month before their wedding, and it was renewed in June 2009.

Longoria told her friend Mario Lopez that hundreds of text messages from another woman on her husband's phone had been found. The other woman, according to Extra, is Erin Barry, the then-wife of Brent Barry, Parker's former teammate, and the Barrys were also divorced. Longoria canceled her planned appearance at the 2010 American Music Awards due to her divorce. Parker requested a divorce from Longoria, Texas, on the grounds of "discord or conflict of personalities," setting up a court dispute over where the divorce case will be heard. Parker's divorce petition, unlike Longoria's divorce petition, did not mention a prenuptial contract and instead said that the parties would "enter into an agreement for the division of their estate." The divorce was finalized in Texas on January 28, 2011, the same day Longoria's counsel filed papers to dismiss her Los Angeles petition. "I didn't know it at the time with Tony," Longoria says later, but I had become my own version of a homeless housewife."

Longoria announced on December 13, 2015, that she had met with Mexican businessman José Antonio "Pepe" Bastón Patio, who was then president of Televisa, the country's biggest media company. Bastón and Longoria met on a blind date arranged by a mutual friend in Mexico City; at the time, Bastón knew who Longoria was and immediately declined the invitation to meet her due to his hectic schedule. On May 21, 2016, the two were married in Mexico.

Longoria was pregnant with her first child on December 19, 2017. In 2018, she gave birth to Santiago "Santi" Enrique Bastón, a son.

Longoria's oldest known Spanish immigrant ancestor, Lorenzo Suárez de Longoria (b. Oviedo, 1592), was a colonist of the Viceroyalty of New Spain (modern-day Mexico) in 1603. According to study conducted in 2010, by Harvard professor and Faces of America host Henry Louis Gates Jr., Longoria's ninth great-grandfather, Lorenzo Suárez de Longoria (b. 1592) who was a His family was based in Llongoria, Belmonte de Miranda, Asturias, Spain. Longoria is the Castillanized version of this Asturian-language surname.

In 1767, her seventh grandfather received nearly 4,000 acres (16 km2) of land along the Rio Grande in a land grant from King Charles III of Spain. For more than a century, the family owned this property. The land on the American side of the border was moved southwards in the aftermath of the Mexican–American War. Following the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War, her family was forced to cope with the influx of immigrants from the United States settlers.

Longoria's total genetic ancestor is 70% European, 27% Indigenous American, and 3% African, according to DNA testing. Tests revealed that she is anciently connected by human haplogroup to cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who is of Chinese descent, after a computer compared the DNA findings of Gates' dozen guests. Longoria did not inherit her father's Y-DNA nor Y chromosome, but she did inherit her mother's mitochondrial DNA (genetic information passed from mother to child). Longoria's mtDNA descendant of a Native American woman, a Maya from Mexico long before it was Mexico. Many other Mayas from both sides of her family tree are among her ancestors. Longoria is identified as a "Texican" — a Mexican-American Texan.

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Career

Longoria landed her first television role in 1999 after meeting executive producer Gary Ghiaey at a political reception in Los Angeles. She guest-starred in an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210. Another guest appearance on General Hospital the same year brought her big break on the CBS Daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, where she portrayed Isabella Braña from 2001 to 2003. After leaving that show, she appeared in the Dick Wolf revival of Dragnet. She then starred in Señorita Justice, a poorly received direct-to-video film; and a television film, The Dead Will Tell.

In 2003, Longoria was cast as Gabrielle Solis in the ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives. She later commented, "I think it's funny when people say I'm an overnight sensation, because I've been working at it for 10 years." Shortly after her debut on Desperate Housewives, she starred in a direct-to-video film, Carlita's Secret, for which she was also co-producer.

In 2006, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy, along with her co-stars in Desperate Housewives. That year, she received the ALMA Award, and was named entertainer of the year. She also starred opposite Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland in the thriller The Sentinel (2006)—her first major role in a theatrical feature film—and played Sylvia in Harsh Times, starring Freddy Rodríguez and Christian Bale.

In the 2000s, Longoria appeared in several high-profile advertising campaigns and numerous men's magazines, reaching No. 14 in the FHM "Sexiest Women 2008" poll. She was also featured on the cover of various international women's magazines, including Vogue, Marie Claire and Harper's Bazaar. People en Español listed her among its "Most Beautiful People" for 2003. She continues to be included in lists of Hollywood's Most Beautiful. She was listed as No. 1 in Maxim's Hottest Female Stars of 2005 and 2006, the first woman to top the list in two consecutive years. She was ranked No. 9 in the magazine's Hot 100 of 2007 list. In honor of Maxim's 100th issue in 2006, she was featured on a 75-by-110-foot (23 by 34 m) vinyl mesh replica of its January 2005 cover located in a Clark County, Nevada desert. More recently, she was ranked No. 14 of People's Most Beautiful 2011. People named her one of 2012 Most Beautiful at Every Age.

In January 2007, Longoria was chosen to be the first face of Bebe Sport. She appeared in the Spring/Summer 2007 campaign, photographed by Greg Kadel. She also holds contracts with L'Oréal, and New York & Co. She also contracts with Magnum Ice-Cream and Heineken. She was a part of Microsoft's "I'm A PC" ad campaign. She and Tony Parker have appeared together in campaigns for London Fog. She became a spokesperson for L'Oréal Paris in 2005 and was still being featured in L'Oréal TV commercials and print ads as of 2016. In the summer of 2010, she was a judge on The Next Food Network Star; and in October, she hosted the MTV Europe Music Awards 2010 in Madrid, Spain.

Based on her earnings from June 1, 2009, to June 1, 2010, Longoria was ranked No. 4 on Forbes Prime Time's 10 Top-Earning Women with an estimated $12 million. She topped the Forbes magazine's list of the highest-paid TV actresses for 2011.

In 2013, Longoria professed that she was a "cat lady", and appeared as a spokesperson for Sheba Cat Food.

From 2013, she served as one of the executive producers of Devious Maids and directed the season two premiere, "An Ideal Husband". In 2016, she also starred in the fourth season, in the episode "Once More Unto the Bleach". She is also an executive producer of the documentaries The Harvest and Food Chains, for which she won a James Beard Foundation Award.

In 2015, NBC announced plans for a sitcom called Telenovela in which Longoria starred as a popular telenovela actress. It was filmed with a single camera. It ran for only one season.

In 2017, Longoria directed the season three finale episode of the ABC comedy Black-ish.

In 2018, Longoria attended the premiere for her new film, Dog Days with co-stars Vanessa Hudgens (Tara) and Nina Dobrev (Elizabeth) on August 5, 2018.

As of 2021, Longoria has been working with Kenya Barris on a possible new television series Brown-ish about a latino family.

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