Michelle Rodriguez

Acting · Born 1978-07-12 in Bexar County, Texas, USA

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…

Filmography

• Teenage Paparazzo as Self
• Resident Evil as Rain Ocampo
• The Breed as Nicki
• A Night at the Academy Museum as Self
• Machete as Luz
• S.W.A.T. as Chris Sanchez
• Blue Crush as Eden
• The Fast and the Furious as Letty Ortiz
• Control as Teresa
• Battle in Seattle as Lou