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"Michelle Rodríguez" redirects here. For the French-Chilean tennis player, see Michelle Rodríguez (tennis). For the Mexican actress, see Michelle Rodríguez (Mexican actress).
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Born | Mayte Michelle Rodríguez () July 12, (age 46) San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
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Years active | –present |
Mayte Michelle Rodríguez (born July 12, ) is an American actress. She began her career in , playing a troubled boxer in the independent sports drama film Girlfight (), where she won the Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award for Best Debut Performance. Rodriguez played Letty Ortiz in the Fast & Furious franchise, and portrayed Rain Ocampo in the Resident Evil franchise. She appeared in the crime thriller S.W.A.T. (), and later starred in James Cameron's science fiction epic Avatar () and in the action film Battle: Los Angeles ().
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Michelle Rodriguez is an American actress. She portrayed Luz in Machete.
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Mayte Michelle Rodriguez was born on July 12, , in Bexar County, TX into a complicated home life. Her mother was from the Dominican Republic and a devout Jehovah's Witness; her father was a Puerto Rican who had served in the military and fathered several children with other women. When the marriage broke up, Rodriguez left Texas and moved with her mother and two older twin brothers to the Dominican Republic when she was nine. Once there, she chafed under her mother's strict religious beliefs, so joined her father in Puerto Rico when she was 11 years old. Rodriguez rebelled again, getting kicked out of several schools before finally joining her mother and brothers in Jersey City, NJ. Although a voracious reader and clearly intelligent, she hated high school and dropped out at age It did not matter. She was going to get kicked out anyway.
After Rodriguez got her GED, she drifted, attendi
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Mayte Michelle Rodríguez was born on July 12, in San Antonio, Texas to Carmen Milady Pared Espinal, a housewife, and Rafael Rodríguez Santiago, a U.S. Army solider. Known for tough-chick roles, Michelle is proof that there is a cross between beauty and brawn. Michelle always knew she was destined to become a star, she just didn't know how to get there. Michelle lived in San Antonio until the age of 8 when her parents divorced & moved to the Dominican Republic where she lived for two years before moving to Puerto Rico. At 11, Michelle's family relocated for the gods time to Jersey City, New Jersey. Although she has been working since as an extra in such films as Summer of Sam () and Cradle Will Rock (), it only took a magazine ad announcing an open casting call in New York for Michelle to decide to finally step into the spotlight. The role was the female lead, the