Eva Mendes in Blue



Eva Mendes born March 5, 1974 is an American actress. She began acting in the late 1990s, and became known after a series of roles in several major Hollywood films, including 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hitch, Training Day and We Own the Night.

Mendes made her big-screen debut in 1998 in the horror film Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror. Later that year she had a memorable role in A Night at the Roxbury starring opposite Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan. "It was only my second job in the business," she says, "and seeing them work and have fun made me decide that I could do it too."

In 2008, Eva starred in The Women, a comedy ensemble film featuring Meg Ryan, Annette Bening and Debra Messing. Maxim ranked her #7 in its 2007 Hot 100 issue. Mendes also made her second Maxim cover in the November 2007 issue. [wiki]