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

• The Fast and the Furious as Letty Ortiz
• Avatar as Trudy Chacon
• Furious 7 as Letty Ortiz
• Alita: Battle Angel as Gelda (uncredited)
• F9 as Letty Ortiz
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves as Holga
• Fast X as Letty
• Fast Five as Letty (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Teenage Paparazzo as Self
• Resident Evil as Rain Ocampo

TV

• Lost as Ana Lucia Cortez
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
• Punk'd as Self
• Icons
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics as Self
• Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
• Finding Your Roots as Self
• Top Gear