Celebrity Biographies
Eva Longoria
Texan actress Eva Longoria is barely over five feet tall. But she is enough for him and he has plenty to seduce the general public from the screen. She has achieved this in spades thanks to her role as a desperate woman.
And it is that his Gabrielle Solís, a frivolous Latina woman with a tendency to be borderline, a resident of the residential neighborhood of Wisteria Lane, suits her like a glove. But not exactly marital fidelity, because Gabrielle cheats on her violent husband Carlos, a delinquent, as she pleases. The actress of Mexican descent embroiders like few others, with her full-lipped smile and mischievous little eyes, the role of a bored woman who goes about her business, thinking about her clothes and her checking account, but whose life turns upside down when she discovers that she is pregnant. She assures that “the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men”, which she would say fits perfectly with the role that fiction has given her.
Eva Longoria was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1975. The youngest of four sisters, legend has it that as a teenager she was bullied as ugly. She’s hard to believe, but maybe something short (1 m, 57 cm to be exact) and her dark features -unlike those of her sisters, lighter than hers- influenced her. Even so, it would not be an obstacle for her to be elected Miss Corpus Christi in 1998, at the age of 23.
His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology, a muscle therapy. On the other hand, she has not studied acting, but her photogenicity and naturalness, which are very good on screen, seemed to invite her to try her luck as an actress, which is why she sought an agent in Los Angeles.
His roles to date have been television, and initially they were small. She made her debut in Sensación de vivir in 2000, and from there she followed appearances in General Hospital (2000), The Young and the Restless (2001) and LA Dragnet (2003), produced by Dick Wolf where she was the police detective Gloria Durán. Fortune knocked on her door in 2004 with the Desperate Housewives phenomenon , which follows in the footsteps of four friends, with their small and large domestic problems, marked by the suicide of which she was fifth in the group. Gabrielle, Susan, Bree and Lynette have been on the air for three seasons, and they’ve got plenty to go by.
But this does not prevent the actress from stepping on other grounds, such as the theater. She has played a small and juicy role in the movies in The Shadow of Suspicion (2006), where she shows that if she wishes she can turn off her sexy side a bit and give life to a competent policewoman. In addition, she is not averse to ‘indie’ cinema, and has just starred alongside Christian Bale and Freddie Rodríguez in Harsh Times , a drama by David Ayer , screenwriter of the interesting Training Day .
“No matter how far from home I am, I have always had a network of friends and family to support me. Of all that I have achieved in life, it is what I am most proud of”, affirms Longoria. Despite which, her marriage to actor Tyler Christopher only lasted two years. She might have better luck with basketball player Tony Parker , whom she plans to marry this spring.
It is early to know what Eva Longoria will give of herself as an actress. Television has sent him skyrocketing for the man-eater role of her, but she needs to push herself into category characters, who prove that she is more than just a pretty girl. Time, relentless, will end up giving her verdict.