Michelle Rodriguez

Biography

Mayte Michelle Rodríguez (born July 12, 1978) is an American actress. She began her career in 2000, playing a troubled boxer in the independent sports drama film Girlfight (2000), where she won the Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award for Best Debut Performance. Rodriguez played Letty Ortiz in the Fast & Furious franchise and Rain Ocampo in the Resident Evil franchise. She has starred in the crime thriller S.W.A.T. (2003), James Cameron's science fiction epic Avatar (2009), and in the action film Battle: Los Angeles (2011). After playing Minerva Mirabal in the biopic Trópico de Sangre (2010), Rodriguez headlined the exploitation films Machete (2010) and Machete Kills (2013) and starred in the animated comedy films Turbo (2013) and Smurfs: The Lost Village(2017), while her performance in the heist film Widows (2018) was critically praised. Outside of film, Rodriguez played Ana Lucia Cortez in the drama television series Lost (2005–2006; 2009–2010) and voiced Liz Ricarro in the English-language translation of the anime Immortal Grand Prix (2005–2006). She reprised her roles in video game spin-offs of Avatar and Fast & Furious and also appeared in True Crime: Streets of LA (2003), Driver 3 (2004), Halo 2 (2004), and Call of Duty: Black Ops II (2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article Michelle Rodriguez, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Known For

Lost

as Ana Lucia Cortez

Avatar

as Trudy Chacon

The Kelly Clarkson Show

as Self - Guest

The View

as Self

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

as Self

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Fast X

as Letty

Tamron Hall

as Self - Guest

Furious 7

as Letty Ortiz

The Fate of the Furious

as Letty Ortiz

Alita: Battle Angel

as Gelda (uncredited)

Punk'd

as Self

Finding Your Roots

as Self

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

as Holga

F9

as Letty Ortiz

Germany's Next Topmodel

as Self - Special Guest

Machete

as Luz

Widows

as Linda

Turbo

as Paz (voice)