Eva Mendes

At 50 years old, Eva Mendes has this physical status:

Eva de la Caridad Méndez, also known as Eva Mendes (), is an American actress and businesswoman.

Her acting career began in the late 1990s with a string of roles in B films including Children of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000). Mendes' appearance in Training Day (2001) marked a turning point in her career and culminated in roles in the commercially successful films 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and Hitch (2005).

She appeared in Ghost Rider (2007) and The Spirit (2008), both film adaptations of comics, and then stepped into more dramatic territory with We Own the Night (2007), Bad Lieutenant (2009), Last Night (2010), and The Place Beyond the Pines (2012).

Out of Time (2004), The Other Guys (2008), Out of Time (2004), and Girl in Progress (2012) are among her other films. Mendes has appeared in numerous music videos for musicians like Will Smith, as well as being a brand ambassador for companies like Calvin Klein, Cartier, Reebok, Pantene shampoo, Morgan, and Peek & Cloppenburg.

She has worked with New York & Company as the creative director of CIRCA Beauty, a Walgreens-based makeup line.

Early life

Mendes was born in Miami, Florida, to Cuban parents Eva Pérez Suárez and Juan Carlos Méndez, and she was raised by her mother in Los Angeles's Silver Lake neighborhood following her parents' divorce. Her mother worked at Mann's Chinese Theatre and later for an aerospace company, and her father owned a meat distribution firm. Juan Carlos Méndez Jr. (1963–2016), the mendes' older brother, died from throat cancer. Janet is both a younger sister and a younger paternal half-brother Carlos Alberto "Carlo" Méndez. She attended Hoover High School in Glendale and then studied marketing at California State University, Northridge, but she left college to pursue acting under Ivana Chubbuck.

Personal life

From 2002 to 2010, Mendes was in a film with filmmaker George Augusto.

She began dating Ryan Gosling in 2011 shortly before they appeared together in The Place Beyond the Pines. They have two children who were born in 2014 and 2016.

Mendes is a pescatarian who works both ethical and health reasons. Transcendental Meditation is also a part of Transcendental Meditation.

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Acting career

Mendes began her acting career after a talent manager noticed her picture in a friend's portfolio. In the direct-to-video horror film Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror, she was one of a group of young people who became lost in middle America. Mendes was dissatisfied with her results and recruited an acting coach right away. She then played a bridesmaid in the comedy A Night at the Roxbury (1999), with Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan, a housekeeper, and Margaret Gray, an ill-fated film student in the slasher film Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000).

Mendes appeared in the Steven Seagal action thriller Exit Wounds (2001), which earned over US$73 million annually. Her voice was dubbed in the editing, according to Mendes, with a producer who told her that she "didn't sound sophisticated enough." Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke appeared in Antoine Fuqua's crime drama Training Day in 2001, describing her as the mistress of a corrupt cop. She characterized her role as "pivotal" in her career, saying that it inspired her to continue acting as an actor while she was "bored" doing "terrible cheesy horrible" films before she acquiring it. Training Day was a huge success for the box office, grossing US$104.5 million.

Her appearance in Training Day led to bigger film roles, and Mendes soon established herself as a Hollywood actress. Although Mendes appeared in four studio feature films released in 2003, her sole film release was the crime comedy All About the Benjamins, in which she played the girlfriend of a con artist. Paul Walker and Tyrese Gibson portrayed a United States Customs Service agent undercover for a notorious Argentine drug lord. The film attracted a lot more attention worldwide, with sales exceeding US$236 million worldwide. Carmen Banderas and Salma Hayek appeared in Once Upon a Time in Mexico as the daughter of a Mexican drug lord. Although the film's critiques were mixed, it was still worth US$98.1 million.

Mendes reunited with Denzel Washington for the thriller Out of Time, in which she appeared in the role of a well-respected chief of police. The film was a modest commercial success, and Roger Ebert's review of it referred to Mendes' role as a "curiously forgiving woman" who has no rancor for the straying [husband] and who presumably still loves him; perhaps there would have been more suspense if she were furious with him." Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear appeared in Stuck on You, her last film, in which she played an aspiring actress.

In her forthcoming film, Hitch (2005), she appeared as the love interest of a licensed dating specialist (Will Smith), making her one of the first female actors to play leading roles in a mainstream romantic comedy. "Smith and Mendes are a natural team, and it is the best screen job to date," USA Today said. You'd guess she's had as many good parts as Smith if she's high. In its international theatrical career, Hitch earned US$368.1 million. In 2005, Mendes appeared in the little-seen films The Wendell Baker Story and Guilty Hearts.

Mendes appeared in the romantic comedy Trust the Man (2006) starring David Duchovny, Billy Crudup, Julianne Moore, and Maggie Gyllenhaal, who performed as The A.V. The club described it as a "vain sexpot." Mendes was the love interest of the titular character in the much-disguished Ghost Rider (2007), which was based on the Marvel Comics character (Nicolas Cage). The film did well commercially, debuting at the North American box office with more than US$45 million in sales; eventually, it raised over US$228 million worldwide. In the drama We Own the Night (also 2007), she appeared alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg, as the girlfriend of an NYPD captain's brother. Peter Travers, a critic, found the film to be "defiantly, refreshingly unhip," and that "sizzle comes naturally" from Mendes. She appeared in the films Live! in 2007. The comedian and the Cleaner went unnoticed by audiences, and they made an uncredited cameo appearance in Knocked Up.

In the all-female comedy The Women, opposite Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Debra Messing, and Jada Pinkett Smith, Mendes played a perfume salesgirl in Saks Fifth Avenue in 2008. Despite a commercial success, critics blasted The Women, with Mendes receiving a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for her role. Sand Saref, a femme fatale, appeared in 2008's The Spirit, based on Will Eisner's newspaper comic strip of the same name. Critics had mixed reactions about it, including melodramatic, unoriginal, and sexist. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, her only 2009 film premiere, reunited her with Nicolas Cage, playing a prostitute and a lover, as well as his intimate interest. Although the film attracted a small audience in theaters, it earned praise for its clout, appearing on several top ten lists of the year.

Mendes reunited with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg for the 2011 film The Other Guys, in which she portrayed the wife of a mild-mannered forensic NYPD accountant (Ferrell). It was a commercial success, with a total turnover of US$170.4 million. In Massy Tadjedin's romantic drama Last Night, she also appeared as the co-worker and the love interest of a committed man. Although she was initially reluctant to perform because the story was "too seductive" and was "too seductive," she later agreed to act; after meeting with Tadjedin, she said, "It's wonderful to collaborate with a female director and talk about this woman rather than merely objectify her as the other woman, but give her a realistic authentic life and make her honest." I thank God that I did."

Mendes appeared in an uncredited cameo in Fast Five in 2011, reprising her role from 2 Fast 2 Furious. She appeared in the dramedy Girl in Progress as a single mother raising her fourteen-year-old daughter and in the art fantasy film Holy Motors as Kay M, a part originally written for Kate Moss. Though Girl in Progress received a prize for Best Movie Actress from the ALMA, she said Holy Motors was "the coolest, most artistic thing I've ever done."

Mendes played the former lover of a motorcycle stuntman in The Place Beyond the Pines (also 2012), a Derek Cianfrance drama starring Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper. The film was a modest commercial success, and Entertainment Weekly's review of her casting described her as "quietly heartbreaking." She travelled to Sierra Leone and was also included in the PBS documentary Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, which aired in October 2012.

Mendes appeared in HBO's Clear History as a formerly wealthy woman, and in 2014, she appeared in Ryan Gosling's debut Lost River, which was part of the Cannes Film Festival's Uncertain Regard section. This will be her last acting role in the animated series "Born Yesterday" until 2021.

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