Known For: American actress (born 1974)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: film actor, stage actor, television actor, model, actor, businessperson, spokesperson, film director
Country: United States of America
City: Miami
Date of Birth: Tuesday, 05 March 1974
Language English
Also known as Eva Mendes
Eva de la Caridad Méndez, known professionally as Eva Mendes, is an American actress. Her acting career began in the late 1990s with a series of roles in films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000).
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Mendes was born on March 5, 1974, in Miami, Florida, to Cuban parents Eva Pérez Suárez and Juan Carlos Méndez and was raised by her mother in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake after her parents' divorce. Her mother worked at Mann's Chinese Theatre and later for an aerospace company, and her father ran a meat distribution business. Mendes had an older brother Juan Carlos Méndez Jr. (1963–2016), who died from throat cancer, and a younger brother, Carlo (born 1978). She attended Hoover High School in Glendale and later studied marketing at California State University, Northridge, but left college to pursue acting under Ivana Chubbuck.
