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Also known as Eva de la Caridad Méndez, Eva Méndez

Eva de la Caridad Méndez, known professionally as Eva Mendes, is an American former 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).

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Eva de la Caridad Méndez, professionally known as Eva Mendes, is an American film, stage, and television actor as well as a model. Born in Miami on March 5, 1974, she is a citizen of the United States and speaks English. Her career began in 1998. She studied at California State University, Northridge, and was a student of Ivana Chubbuck.

Mendes has appeared in works including *Desi, Mami y Las Infinitas Preocupaciones* and *Once Upon a Time in Mexico*. She is the unmarried partner of Ryan Gosling, and the couple has two children. Her height is listed as 168.

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  • Desi, Mami y Las Infinitas Preocupaciones
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Eva de la Caridad Méndez (/ˈmɛndɛz/, Spanish: [ˈeβa ðe la kaɾiˈðað ˈmendes]; born March 5, 1974), known professionally as Eva Mendes, is an American former 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 All About The Benjamins (2002) and 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).

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