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She
was born in Bell County, TX, on July 12, 1978. Of Puerto Rican
and Dominican descent. She moved around throughout her childhood
and adolescence, living for a time in Texas, Puerto Rico,
the Dominican Republic, and Jersey City, NJ.
You can take the girl
out of Jersey--but only if she really wants to go. "I
like the place," shrugs Michelle Rodriguez, who was recently
seen throwing some serious punches in last year's critic's
darling Girlfight.
If you tell Michelle
Rodriguez that she hits like a girl, she'll probably say,
"Thank you." But then again, she could tear you
from limb to limb.
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As legend has it, when director
Karyn Kusama was casting the lead for her directorial debut, Girlfight,
she wanted to find a young woman who would radiate the powerful,
surly charisma of the young Marlon Brando. Her search for an actor
with this enviable but elusive quality ended when Michelle Rodriguez,
a 20-year-old Latina whose previous experience was limited to work
as an extra, answered an ad in Backstage magazine that Kusama had
posted.
The smell of grease paint;
the roar of the engine. When Jordana Brewster and Michelle Rodriguez
were approached to play the love interests of the street racers
in the youth drama The Fast and the Furious, neither actress had
a driver's licence. Rodriguez was one step ahead. "I'd been
driving for a couple of years without a licence so it was just a
matter of taking the proper exams," says the star of the independent
film Girlfight.
Rodriguez's status as one
of the year's New Hot Young Thangs on the Block was duly reflected
by the attention she was subsequently paid in both the media and
Hollywood. In the following year, her projects included Rob Cohen's
The Fast and the Furious, an urban adrenaline extravaganza in which
she played the tough girlfriend of a gang leader alongside Vin Diesel,
Paul Walker, and Jordanna Brewster, and 3 A.M., a made-for-cable
\\drama which cast her as a taxi driver and was screened at the
Sundance Festival.
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