Eva Mendes
Eva de la Caridad Méndez (born March 5, 1974), known professionally as Eva Mendes, is an American retired 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). Mendes's performance in Training Day (2001) marked a turning point in her career and led to parts in the commercially successful films 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and Hitch (2005). She starred in Ghost Rider (2007) and The Spirit (2008), both film adaptations of comics, and ventured into more dramatic territory with We Own the Night(2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans(2009), Last Night (2010), and The Place Beyond the Pines (2012). Her other films include Out of Time (2003), The Women (2008), The Other Guys (2010), and Girl in Progress (2012). Mendes has appeared in several music videos for artists such as Will Smith and has also been an ambassador for brands including Calvin Klein, Cartier, Reebok, Pantene shampoo, and Peek & Cloppenburg. She has designed for New York & Company and is the creative director of CIRCA Beauty, a makeup line sold at Walgreens.
70 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 70
The Daily Show
1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
ER
1994
Conan
2010
The View
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Bluey
2018
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
V.I.P.
1998
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Good Day Live
2001
The Tony Danza Show
2004
The Megan Mullally Show
2006
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009
Ghost Rider
2007
Mortal Kombat: Conquest
1998
Training Day
2001
Today
1952
The Osbournes
2002
Cleaner
2007
Knocked Up
2007
Hitch
2005
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003
The Other Guys
2010
The Place Beyond the Pines
2013
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2009
A Night at the Roxbury
1998
The Early Show
1999
Exit Wounds
2001
Holy Motors
2012
The Women
2008
2 Fast 2 Furious
2003
Out of Time
2003
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror
1998
Trippin'
2005
The Spirit
2008
Urban Legends: Final Cut
2000
Stuck on You
2003
We Own the Night
2007
Fast Five
2011
Bluey Book Reads
2024
This Morning
1988
Last Night
2010
All About the Benjamins
2002
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010
Radioman
2012
Lost River
2015
Live!
2007
Clear History
2013
Trust the Man
2005
The Wendell Baker Story
2005
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
2012
Guilty Hearts
2007
Mr. X
2014
My Brother the Pig
1999
Girl in Progress
2012
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2010
The Disciples
1999
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
2010
The Making of We Own the Night
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Spirit of Vengeance: Making Ghost Rider
2007
George Lopez: It's Not Me, It's You
2012
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
2013
The Osbourne Family Christmas Special
2003
