Jordana Brewster
Jordana Brewster was born in Panama City, Panamá Province, Panama on April 26th, 1980 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 43, Jordana Brewster biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Jordana Brewster (born April 26, 1980) is an American actress and model.
She made her acting debut in an episode of All My Children in 1995 and next took on the recurring role as Nikki Munson in As the World Turns, garnering a nomination for Outstanding Teen Performer at the 1997 Soap Opera Digest Award.
Her first role in a feature film was in Robert Rodriguez's horror science fiction The Faculty (1998). Her breakthrough came with her role of Mia Toretto in the action film The Fast and the Furious (2001).
She reprised the role in its sequels, Fast & Furious (2009), Fast Five (2011), Fast & Furious 6 (2013), and Furious 7 (2015).
Other film credits include the drama The Invisible Circus (2001), the action comedy D.E.B.S. (2004) and the horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006). Brewster starred on the TNT series Dallas from 2012 to 2014.
She also had a five-episode arc as Denise Brown in the first season of the FX true crime anthology series American Crime Story (2016).
She recently starred as Dr.
Maureen Cahill on the Fox buddy cop action dramedy Lethal Weapon (2016–2018).
Early life
Jordana Brewster was born in Panama City, Panama, on April 26, 1980, the older of two daughters. Her mother, Maria João (née Leal de Sousa), is a former swimsuit model from Brazil who appeared on the 1978 cover of Sports Illustrated, and her father, Alden Brewster, is an American investment banker. Her paternal grandfather, Kingman Brewster Jr., was president of Yale University (1963–77) and the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1977–81). Brewster is a direct descendant of Mayflower passengers William Brewster and Edward Doty. Jordana lived in London, England and moved to Brazil when she was six years old. She left Brazil at 10, settling in Manhattan, New York City, where she studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and graduated from the Professional Children's School. Brewster graduated from Yale University with a B. A. in English Literature in 2003.
Personal life
Brewster and film and television producer Andrew Form met on the set of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, which Form produced. They announced their engagement on November 4, 2006, and married in the Bahamas on May 6, 2007. They have two sons born via surrogacy: Julian, born in September 2013 and Rowan, born in June 2016. Brewster filed for divorce in mid-2020. The divorce was finalized in June 2021. She married ValueAct Capital CEO Mason Morfit on September 3, 2022 in California.
Career
With a one-time appearance on All My Children as Anita Santos, Brewster made her debut in daytime soap operas. On As the World Turns, she appeared on As the World Turns for the fourth time as the rebel daughter Nikki Munson. She appeared in 104 episodes of the soap opera from 1995 to 2001. She was selected for Outstanding Teen Performer at the 1997 Soap Opera Digest Awards for her appearance. Robert Rodriguez's first film appearance was in Robert Rodriguez's horror science fiction film The Faculty (1998), written by Kevin Williamson and co-starring Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, and Clea DuVall. Brewster played a vendictive cheerleading captain and an editor in charge of the student newspaper in a film about strange events involving the teachers of an Ohio high school. Mixed reviews were given to the film, but in North America, it earned US$40 million. In 1999, she appeared alongside Julia Stiles and Jerry O'Connell in an NBC television miniseries called The '60s, playing a student protester.
In the independent drama The Invisible Circus (2001), Brewster starred Cameron Diaz and Christopher Eccleston, portraying a young girl who flies to Europe in 1976 in search of answers to her older sister's suicide. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was limited in theaters. Brewster's portrayal, according to the New York Times, "can't summon a convincing range of emotion." She made her breakthrough in 2001, when she appeared in the street racing action film The Fast and Furious opposite Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. She did not have a driver's license so she could not drive at work, she took driving lessons. Brewster did a "better job here than she did as a struggling teen in the recent The Invisible Circus," Variety's Todd McCarthy wrote about it. The film was a commercial success, grossing more than US$207 million worldwide.
Brewster took a break from acting to complete her B.S. following the initial announcement of The Fast and Furious. She earned her A. in English at Yale in 2003. She made a cameback to television in the action comedy D.E.B.S. as a lesbian criminal mastermind. (2004). A.V. "D.E.B.S." disregarded the progress of Brewster's on-screen relationship with co-star Sara Foster, according to the club, "D.E.B.S." The glib camp's smirkiness of its half-hearted action send-up as well as the thudding earnestness of its romance fluctuates. It was limited in quantity. In the 1970s independent teenager drama Nearing Grace, which was screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival, she appeared as the love interest of a high school student.
Brewster appeared in Annapolis (2006), directed by Justin Lin, starring James Franco and Tyrese Gibson. Ali played Midshipman 2nd Class and the love interest of a man attending the United States Naval Academy in the film. Critics smuggished Annapolis in its first weekend, which was described as "uninspired" by Box Office Mojo. Brewster appeared in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006), opposite Diora Baird, Taylor Handley, and Matt Bomer. The four actors were seen in the film portraying of friends who have been kidnapped by the Hewitt family. Despite mostly critical reviews, the film earned US$51 million worldwide. Brewster was nominated for both Choice Movie Actress: Horror Thriller and Choice Movie: Scream at the 2007 Teen Choice Awards for her appearance.
On the NBC television show Chuckle, as Jill Roberts, the title character's ex-girlfriend from Stanford, Brewster had a four-episode arc between 2008 and 2009. Mia Toretto was back in the role of Mia Toretto in Fast & Furious (2009), the fourth film in the Fast & Furious franchise. In an interview with AskMen.com, Brewster discussed her character's growth throughout the series, "I'm more of a wallflower in the first one and it's much more of a girlfriend-type role," she says, but [the new film] I'm more of a woman." She's much more adamant. I'm concerned with the repercussions of living in my brother's world." On its first day, the film received critical feedback, but it was a box office hit, grossing US$363 million globally.
In 2010, Brewster appeared in Dark Blue as an art gallery dealer named Maria, and was guest-starred in two episodes of Gigantic. Mia in the fifth film in the series, Fast Five (2011), which is a departure from the street racing theme, revolves around Diesel, Walker, and Brewster's characters as they plotted to steal a fortune from a corrupt businessman in Brazil. The critical reaction to Fast Five was positive, with US$86 million in the North American opening weekend and US$626.1 million worldwide. Elena Ramos appeared on Dallas, an updated version of CBS' original series of the same name (1978-1991) about a wealthy Texas family's trials and tribulations. The series received a general positive feedback and aired until 2014.
Mia Toretto appeared in Fast & Furious 6 (2013), following the remains of the missing fugitive fugitives from Fast & Furious 5. The film earned a worldwide audience of US$789 million. Walker's last film appearance appeared in Furious 7 (2015), which was the final film appearance of the actor, who died in a single-vehicle accident while filming was only half complete. After Walker's death, filming of both Walker and Brewster's stories was postponed for script rewrites to the story arcs, causing them to be cancelled. During its first weekend and US$1.5 billion worldwide, the best-grossing film in the series made money, grossing US$397.6 million globally. She appeared in American Heist (2014) as the girlfriend of a man accused of a murder. It was seen at the Toronto International Film Festival and premiered in a ten-theater run in North America. Dusty, a young and flirtatious salesperson in the dark comedy Home Sweet Hell (2015), which was also available on VOD and selected theaters.
Denise Brown, Nicole Brown Simpson's sister, appeared in The People vs. O. J. Simpson, the first season of the true crime anthology series American Crime Story, revolved around the infamous O. J. Simpson murder case. Ryan Murphy's "greatest fan" of the role, and she remarked on her interview: "I heard they were making it and I always felt like my aunt was a lot like Denise Brown," she said. So my boss and I did a side-by-side photo editing of me and Denise, which we fought really hard for it. We just wanted to get the show on." Kate Warner appeared in the second season of the ABC anthology crime drama Secrets and Lies as Catherine Warner, and also in 2016. Mia Toretto, the ninth instalment of the franchise, appeared in 2017's The Fate of the Furious, after not appearing in 2017's The Fate of the Furious. Julian, her older son, appeared in F9 for a brief period of time.