Michelle Rodriguez

Born on July 12, 1978 in Bexar County (Texas), Mayte Michelle Rodríguez belongs to a family of Puerto Rican-Dominican descent. She was living in Puerto Rico until she was eleven years old, with her mother, after she divorced her father. She returned to the United States, she settled in New Jersey.

Educated by her maternal grandmother as a Jehovah’s Witness, from a very young age she decided to be an actress. When she was 22 years old, she found out that auditions had been called to find the protagonist of the independent production Girlfight . The young Michelle Rodríguez decided to audition for the first time, with such good fortune that she was chosen, although more than 350 applicants showed up.

The film left a good taste in the mouth, in large part due to the extraordinary work of Rodríguez, as Diana Guzmán, a troubled teenager who decided to train to become a boxer.

Since then, he has opted for her for the action genre. Full Throttle was a box office success, which made her known to the general public, and although she avoided appearing in the second and third installments, she recovered her character in Fast & Furious. Even faster , the fourth.

Almost all of her roles are tough girl, in titles like Resident Evil , opposite Milla Jovovich , and SWAT: Harrelson’s Men . She was also a tough cop, Ana Lucia Cortez, in Lost , a brash pilot in Avatar , James Cameron ‘s blockbuster , and a Mexican woman with a taco stand who helps her emigrant compatriots, in Machete . But she is happy with her career. “I don’t like those girls who sit down and cry and say: ‘I lost the love of my life.’ I feel like slapping them. When they offer me a weak character, I feel like I don’t respect them,” explains the actress.

Rodríguez is a rebellious young woman with problems with the law, very similar to the character she played in her debut. She has been in legal trouble for assaulting her roommate, and on numerous occasions for driving fast, Full Throttle style .

With her partner in this tape, Vin Diesel , the actress was dating for a while. She has also been linked to actors Colin Farrell and Olivier Martinez . She has yet to be released Invasion on Earth , where she returns to being a girl in arms, Marine Sergeant Elena Santos.

To escape the pigeonhole, the actress plans to promote her own projects. “Most of the films that they offer me are for the male audience. The only way to escape from this is by writing your own films. I want to start with something for children and then with something for women,” says the actress, who works in two dashes. The children’s film is “a story about purity, animals and children,” and the women’s film “a review of Bandits (1997) , about four girls who have escaped from jail,” says Rodriguez.