Eva Mendes

Advertise Here

Purchase Eva Mendes Products Here

March 5, 1974

Mendes and her boyfriend, filmmaker George Augusto, have been together since 2002

Actress

2013 The Place Beyond the Pines

2011 See If I Care

2011 Fast Five (uncredited)

2010 Last Night

2010 Lopez Tonight (TV series)

2010 The Other Guys

2009 The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

2008 The Spirit

2008 The Women

2007 Cleaner

2007 We Own the Night

2007 Live!

2007 Ghost Rider

2006 Guilty Hearts

2005 Trust the Man

2005 The Wendell Baker Story

2005 Hitch

2003 Stuck on You

2003 Out of Time

2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico

2003 2 Fast 2 Furious

2003 Reel Comedy (TV series)

2002 All About the Benjamins

2001 Training Day

2001 Exit Wounds

2000 Urban Legends: Final Cut

2000 The Disciples (TV movie)

1999 V.I.P. (TV series)

1999 My Brother the Pig

1998 Mortal Kombat: Conquest (TV series)

1998 A Night at the Roxbury

1998 Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (video)

1998 ER (TV series)

Director

2011 California Romanza (short)

Writer

2011 California Romanza (short)

Producer

2007 Live! (executive producer)

Appearances

2003-2011 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV series)

2011 Young Hollywood Awards (TV special)

2005-2011 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)

2010-2011 Lopez Tonight (TV series)

2010-2011 Conan (TV series)

2011 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (TV series)

2011 In the House with Peter Bart & Peter Guber (TV series)

2011 The 2011 Independent Spirit Awards (TV special)

2011 IFC News Special: Spirit Award Nominations (TV special)

2011 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards (TV special)

2010 Great Performances (TV series)

2008-2010 Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (TV series)

2008-2010 Cinema 3 (TV series)

2010 El hormiguero (TV series)

2010 Días de cine (TV series)

2010 Buenafuente (TV series)

2010 Janela Indiscreta (TV series)

2008-2010 Le grand journal de Canal+ (TV series)

2010 Made in Hollywood (TV series)

2010 Pimps Don't Cry (video short)

2010 Chelsea Lately (TV series)

2007-2010 Entertainment Tonight (TV series)

2007-2010 Live with Regis and Kelly (TV series)

2010 Up Close with Carrie Keagan (TV series)

2010 With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story (documentary)

2009 The 3rd Annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute (TV special)

2009 The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (TV series)

2009 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (TV series)

2009 Quelli che... il calcio (TV series)

2009 The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV special)

2009 2009 Golden Globe Awards Red Carpet Special (TV special)

2007-2008 Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV series)

2008 Der Kabel 1 Kinotipp (TV series documentary)

2008 Cartelera (TV series)

2008 Larry King Live (TV series)

2008 Rachael Ray (TV series)

2008 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Warren Beatty (TV movie)

2008 The Making of 'We Own the Night' (video documentary)

2008 Tension: Creating 'We Own the Night' (video short)

2008 T'empêches tout le monde de dormir (TV series)

2008 The Directors (TV series documentary)

2007 Late Show with David Letterman (TV series)

2007 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition (TV documentary)

2007 Knocked Up (uncredited)

2007 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards (TV special)

2007 eTalk (TV series)

2007 HypaSpace (TV series documentary)

2007 Penélope, camino a los Oscar (TV documentary) (uncredited)

2007 Ghost Rider: Inside the Action (TV movie)

2007 Corazón de... (TV series)

2007 Moving Image Salutes Will Smith (TV movie)

2007 4Real (TV series documentary)

2006 Scream Awards 2006 (TV special)

2006 The Megan Mullally Show (TV series)

2006 2006 MTV Movie Awards (TV special)

2006 The 32nd Annual People's Choice Awards (TV special)

2005 VH1 News Presents: Hip Hop Videos - Sexploitation on the Set (TV movie)

2005 The Teen Choice Awards 2005 (TV special)

2005 ESPY Awards (TV special)

2005 Will Smith's Red Carpet Race (video documentary short) (uncredited)

2005 'Hitch': Love in New York (video documentary short)

2005 2005 MTV Movie Awards (TV special)

2005 Trippin (TV series documentary)

2005 Continuarà... (TV series)

2005 Rove Live (TV series)

2005 Wetten, dass..? (TV series)

2005 Last Call with Carson Daly (TV series)

2005 The Tony Danza Show (TV series)

2005 The Oprah Winfrey Show (TV series)

2005 The 31st Annual People's Choice Awards (TV special)

2005 Fashion Rocks (TV movie)

2004 The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV special)

2004 Out of Time: Crime Scene (video documentary short)

2004 Tinseltown TV (TV series)

2003 The Sharon Osbourne Show (TV series)

2003 The Osbourne Family Christmas Special (TV special)

2003 The Daily Show (TV series)

2003 HBO First Look (TV series documentary)

2003 The GQ Men of the Year Awards (TV documentary)

2003 Inside '2 Fast 2 Furious' (video documentary short)

2003 Making Music with Ludacris (video documentary short)

2003 E! News Daily (TV series)

2003 The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (TV series)

2002 Miami Nice (video documentary short)

2002 Strictly Business: Making 'All About the Benjamins' (video documentary short)

2002 Reel Comedy (TV series)

1999 The Will Smith Music Video Collection (video documentary) (segment "Miami")

ALMA Awards

2011 Nominated ALMA Award Favorite Movie Actress - Comedy/Musical for: The Other Guys (2010).

2009 Nominated ALMA Award Actress in Film
for: The Women (2008/I) and The Spirit (2008).

2007 Nominated ALMA Award Outstanding Actress - Motion Picture for: Trust the Man (2005).

2006 Nominated ALMA Award Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for: Hitch (2005).

2002 Nominated ALMA Award Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for: Training Day (2001).

Imagen Foundation Awards

2007 Nominated Imagen Award Best Actress - Film
for: Ghost Rider (2007).

Teen Choice Awards

2005 Nominated Teen Choice Award Choice Movie Actress: Comedy for: Hitch (2005).

2005 Nominated Teen Choice Award Choice Movie Love Scene for: Hitch (2005). Shared with: Will Smith Hitch tells Sara he loves her.

2004 Nominated Teen Choice Award Choice Breakout Movie Star - Female for: 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), Out of Time (2003) and Stuck on You (2003).

[ View All Photos ]

Eva Mendes (born March 5, 1974) is an American actress.

She began acting in the late 1990s, and after a series of minor roles and performances in several smaller films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000), she broke into the mainstream, appearing in leading roles in Hollywood releases, such as Training Day (2001); 2 Fast 2 Furious, Once Upon a Time in Mexico and Stuck on You (all 2003); Hitch (2005); Ghost Rider and We Own the Night (both 2007); The Spirit (2008); Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009); The Other Guys and Last Night (both 2010).

Mendes was born in Miami, Florida, to Cuban parents, and was raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale by her mother after her parents' divorce; Mendes has said that her mother "suffered so much to make my life OK" during her early years. Mendes was raised a Roman Catholic and aspired to be a nun. She is also fluent in Spanish.

Mendes never saw herself as an actress while she was young and pursued other interests. She attended Hoover High School in Glendale and later attended California State University, Northridge to study marketing, but dropped out after wanting to begin an acting career. She studied acting under Ivana Chubbuck.

I wanted to be a nun when I was very little. Well, that was until my sister told me that they don't get paid. Then I went off that idea quickly.

Speaks Spanish fluently.

Was a marketing major at California State University Northridge where she dropped out to pursue acting.