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Mar 26, 2024 · While speaking with Shop TODAY’s Adrianna Brach in an interview that aired March 26, the star praised her mother, Eva Perez Suarez, and explained how the cancer survivor has maintained a...
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Mar 26, 2024 · Eva Mendes got candid about her “incredible” mom Eva Perez Suarez’s recovery from battling cancer. “She lost my brother just a few years ago to cancer,” Mendes, 50, explained to the Today...
Mar 26, 2024 · Eva Mendes got candid about her “incredible” mom Eva Perez Suarez’s recovery from battling cancer. “She lost my brother just a few years ago to cancer,” Mendes, 50, explained to the Today...
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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. Mende...
Beginnings and breakthrough
Mendes began her acting career after a talent manager saw her photo in a friend's portfolio. Her first film role was that of one in a group of young people who become lost in middle America in the direct-to-video horror film Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror. Mendes was disappointed in her performance and soon hired an acting coach. She subsequently took on the roles of a bridesmaid in the comedy A Night at the Roxbury (1998), with Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan, a housekeeper in the fa...
Worldwide exposure
Her role in Training Day led to larger film parts and Mendes soon established herself as a Hollywood actress. While her sole film release in 2002 was the crime comedy All About the Benjamins, in which she played the girlfriend of a con artist, Mendes had roles on four studio feature films released throughout 2003. 2 Fast 2 Furious teamed her with Paul Walker and Tyrese Gibson, portraying a United States Customs Service agent working undercover for a notorious Argentine drug lord. The film gav...
Further roles and retirement
Mendes reunited with previous collaborators Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg for the action comedy The Other Guys (2010), in which she portrayed the wife of a mild-mannered forensic NYPD accountant (Ferrell). It was a commercial success, grossing US$170.4 million globally. In 2010, she also played the co-worker and the love interest of a committed man in Massy Tadjedin's romantic drama Last Night, alongside Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington.While she was initially reluctant to star, worrying...
Modeling
Mendes appeared in the Pet Shop Boys' music video for "Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)" in 1996, Aerosmith's music video for "Hole in My Soul" in 1997, and Will Smith's music video for "Miami" in 1998. She also appeared in the music video for The Strokes' "The End Has No End" in 2004. In 2005, Mendes was employed by Revlon as an international spokesperson, and participated in their campaign to raise funds for breast cancer research. In December 2007, People for the Ethical Treatment of A...
Fashion designing
Mendes has a line of bed linens and dinnerware that is sold at Macy's. In February 2013, she partnered with New York & Co. to launch her own fashion line, Eva by Eva Mendes. She is also the creative director of the makeup brand CIRCA Beauty, which launched exclusively at Walgreensin 2015.
Singing
In 2010, Mendes sang "Pimps Don't Cry", a song featured in The Other Guys, and also performed a duet with CeeLo Green with the same song. In 2011, she recorded a version of "The Windmills of Your Mind".She also featured in the single "Miami" sung by Will Smith which was released in 1998.
Many media outlets have cited her as one of the world's most beautiful Latin women, and she has been often considered a sex symbol. She once embraced that status, saying it was "partially self-created ... I think at times I play up my sexiness. And there's times where I don't", though she does not let it interfere with her film work: "I like it whe...
Mendes began dating music producer George Augusto in 2002.They broke up in 2011. In 2008, she entered the Cirque Lodge Rehabilitation Centre in Utah to address a dependency problem related to drugs and alcohol. In September 2011, she began dating Ryan Gosling, shortly after they filmed The Place Beyond the Pines together.They have two daughters, bo...
Eva Mendes at AllMovieEva Mendes at IMDbMay 8, 2022 · Published May 8, 2022, 4:54 p.m. ET. Eva Mendes is sharing some sad family news. The actress teared up during her appearance on Friday’s “Today,” after co-anchor Hoda Kotb wished Mendes’ mom, Eva...
May 9, 2022 · The story goes that "Today" anchor Hoda Kotb wished Mendes' mother, Eva Perez Suarez, a happy Mother's Day. "Thank you so much. She's not doing too well right now, so, means a lot to me," Mendes ...
Mar 26, 2024 · While speaking with Shop TODAY’s Adrianna Brach in an interview that aired March 26, the star praised her mother, Eva Perez Suarez, and explained how the cancer survivor has maintained a...
